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  1. 2020

    Armed Conflict and the Timing of Childbearing in Azerbaijan

    Orsola Torrisi

    Using retrospective birth histories from Azerbaijan’s 2006 Demographic and Health Survey, the study traces fertility since independence and models whether exposure to the Nagorno-Karabakh war affected transitions to first and later births. It reports higher second-birth likelihood among women exposed through displacement, residence in Karabakh, or bereavement, while finding limited influence on national aggregate trends.

    2020Journal ArticleOpen Access
  2. 2020

    Recovering Armenia

    Lerna Ekmekçioğlu

    This book reconstructs how Armenians who remained in the Turkish Republic after 1915 negotiated communal survival during the postwar and early republican transition. Drawing on Armenian-language materials from Istanbul, it focuses on public figures including Hayganush Mark and analyzes the tension between women’s feminist leadership and gendered expectations that made the household a principal site of cultural continuity.

    2020BookOpen Access
  3. 2019

    A Cross-Sectional Study to Explore Intimate Partner Violence and Barriers to Empowerment of Women in Armenia

    Russell Kabir and Hafiz T. A. Khan

    Survey data from 6,116 Armenian women in 8,749 households relate intimate-partner violence to empowerment, age, children, wealth, and decision-making authority. The cross-sectional analysis compares urban and rural respondents within Armenia’s 2015–2016 demographic-health evidence.

    2019Journal ArticleOpen Access
  4. 2019

    Diaspora Identity and a New Generation: Armenian Diaspora Youth on the Genocide and the Karabakh War

    Dmitry Chernobrov and Leila Wilmers

    Based on interviews with young Armenians in France, Britain, and Russia, the study examines how memories of the 1915 genocide and the Karabakh conflict shape diasporic identity after Armenian independence. It emphasizes the roles of digital communication, travel, and intergenerational transmission in participants’ efforts to relate inherited trauma to contemporary homeland politics.

    2019Journal ArticlePaywalled
  5. 2019

    The Cost of Memorializing: Analyzing Armenian Genocide Memorials and Commemorations in the Republic of Armenia and in the Diaspora

    Sabrina Papazian

    Visual and semiotic readings cover memorials located in Armenia, France, and the United States alongside the marches, vigils, and ceremonies held around them. The author argues that recognition-centered commemoration can bind a transnational Armenian public while reinforcing an enduring victim identity.

    2019Journal ArticleOpen Access
  6. 2018

    Bone memory: the necrogeography of the Armenian Genocide in Dayr al-Zur, Syria

    Elyse Semerdjian

    Semerdjian studies formal and informal rituals involving victims' remains at Dayr al-Zur, where deported Armenians were killed and commemorated. The article treats these practices and vernacular memorials as sources that can make dispersed sites of atrocity historically legible, especially after the destruction of the local memorial complex.

    2018Journal ArticlePaywalled
  7. 2018

    May I be a sacrifice for my grandchildren—transgenerational transmission and women’s narratives of the Yezidi ferman

    Maria Six-Hohenbalken

    Drawing on fieldwork with Yezidi families who resettled in Armenia after Ottoman-era violence, the study traces how women narrate inherited persecution across generations. It examines gendered experience, silence, and the renewed impact of violence in Shingal on a community whose collective memory is rooted in refuge in Armenia.

    2018Journal ArticlePaywalled

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