Tamar Shirinian
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 215752 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tamar Shirinian |
| NOMBRES | Tamar |
| APELLIDO | Shirinian |
| FIRMA | SHIRINIAN T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4798-5129 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Introduction to Forum
Life-sustaining transboundary survival
In September 2020, the ‘frozen conflict’ between the Republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh erupted into full combat when Azerbaijan invaded Armenian towns in Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions. In this war, Armenia lost control over parts of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions that it had gained in the early 1990s before a ceasefire agreement in 1994. Most importantly, thousands of young people…
Sanctions as Siege
When one of us, Tamar Shirinian, joined the other, Lucia Sorbera, as coeditors of “Third Space” in June 2023, we started thinking of a thematic focus for this section of the journal. The effects of economic sanctions in the countries of the SWANA region (Southwest Asia and North Africa) came to mind as a theme that could allow for a broad interdisciplinary discussion and a necessary one. While scholarship on this issue emerged in the late 1990s a…
Feminist Pedagogies on the Front Lines
In 2018, residents of the Vayots Dzor region in southern Armenia began occupying the entrance to a gold mine owned by Lydian International, at Amulsar mountain, to halt operation. At the forefront of this struggle were not only local men, but also many women who identified themselves as feminists from the capital city of Yerevan. Although feminism is marginalized as a political praxis and discourse in the country-including within leftist and prog…
Armenian Studies in Middle East Studies
In thinking about the prompt for this forum—on the ways in which Armenia and Armenians sit within Middle East studies and the ways in which they are often occluded from the sights of Middle East studies—what comes to mind is the critical necessity for internationalism and solidarity. This might at first seem only tangentially or indirectly relevant to the object of investigation here; after all, we are talking about geography, history, and facts.…
Diasporas' Queer Archives
The illiberal east
In this article, I investigate the ways in which Armenian right-wing nationalists understand the particularities of Armenian culture that stand apart from what they deem ‘Western values’, such as human rights and tolerance for homosexuality. Armenian right-wing nationalists place Armenia within an imaginary geography that I call the ‘Illiberal East,’ making up a part of a ‘Eurasian’ civilization. I discuss the debates in Yerevan surrounding the s…
Intimate sovereigns
Since the mid-1990s, Armenia has been dominated politically and economically by an oligarchy. While the figures who form this oligarchy are known as corrupt and brutal in their use of force in governing, their power also depends on intimate, kin-based, clientelist connections to the body politic. I argue that these forms of intimacy-the sharing of cultural values of proper Armenian governance-are established not only on patriarchy in the form of …
Love and the Liminality of Revolution
The 2019 "Velvet Revolution" in Armenia, which became colloquially referred to as the "Revolution of Love and Solidarity" (April 13-May 1, 2018), made some arguably major political shifts in the postsocialist republic, removing the oligarchic Prime Minister Serj Sargsyan and setting up a new regime that would fight corruption. Through ethnographic research in Yerevan, Armenia's capital, however, I found that many leftist activists who had partici…
Fakeness
Fake news and fake social networking profiles have recently come under a great deal of public attention. Much of this attention has focused on the dangers of politics as a space in which inauthenticity is now running rampant. Through an ethnographic exploration of how LGBT activists and their right-wing nationalist opposition make use of fake information and fake social networking profiles in Armenia, I argue that rather than dismissing fakeness …
Queer Life-Worlds in Postsocialist Armenia
Based on fifteen months of ethnographic research conducted between 2010 and 2013, this article explores queer life-worlds through the Armenian notion of alternativ space, spaces that create possibilities for practices, desires, ways of looking, and being that differ from Armenian national values of propriety. Political-economic reform has created anxieties regarding national propriety and the family’s ability to exist in continuity with a moral p…
The Gender and Sexuality of Armenia
In April 2017 the Armenian Studies Program (ASP) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, held the Eighth Annual Graduate Student Workshop, “Gender and Sexuality in Armenian Studies.”1 The workshop, organized by Jeremy Johnson, a PhD candidate in anthropology and history, and Kathryn Babayan, the director of ASP, is the first academic event in the United States that places Armenian studies in direct conversation with gender and sexuality studies…
The nation-family
Anthropological theorists have often dismissed the notion of nation-as-family as an abstraction or as evidence of nationalist sentiment. But in postsocialist Armenia, nation ispracticedas family. Everyday intimate encounters in public carry narratives of genealogical belonging and expectations based on forms of kin relation. This is particularly notable in the experiences of queer subjects-those who fail to meet the demands and expectations to be…
The nation-family
Anthropological theorists have often dismissed the notion of nation-as-family as an abstraction or as evidence of nationalist sentiment. But in postsocialist Armenia, nation ispracticedas family. Everyday intimate encounters in public carry narratives of genealogical belonging and expectations based on forms of kin relation. This is particularly notable in the experiences of queer subjects-those who fail to meet the demands and expectations to be…
The illiberal east
In this article, I investigate the ways in which Armenian right-wing nationalists understand the particularities of Armenian culture that stand apart from what they deem ‘Western values’, such as human rights and tolerance for homosexuality. Armenian right-wing nationalists place Armenia within an imaginary geography that I call the ‘Illiberal East,’ making up a part of a ‘Eurasian’ civilization. I discuss the debates in Yerevan surrounding the s…
Fakeness
Fake news and fake social networking profiles have recently come under a great deal of public attention. Much of this attention has focused on the dangers of politics as a space in which inauthenticity is now running rampant. Through an ethnographic exploration of how LGBT activists and their right-wing nationalist opposition make use of fake information and fake social networking profiles in Armenia, I argue that rather than dismissing fakeness …
Queer Life-Worlds in Postsocialist Armenia
Based on fifteen months of ethnographic research conducted between 2010 and 2013, this article explores queer life-worlds through the Armenian notion of alternativ space, spaces that create possibilities for practices, desires, ways of looking, and being that differ from Armenian national values of propriety. Political-economic reform has created anxieties regarding national propriety and the family’s ability to exist in continuity with a moral p…
Life-sustaining transboundary survival
In September 2020, the ‘frozen conflict’ between the Republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh erupted into full combat when Azerbaijan invaded Armenian towns in Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions. In this war, Armenia lost control over parts of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions that it had gained in the early 1990s before a ceasefire agreement in 1994. Most importantly, thousands of young people…
Feminist Pedagogies on the Front Lines
In 2018, residents of the Vayots Dzor region in southern Armenia began occupying the entrance to a gold mine owned by Lydian International, at Amulsar mountain, to halt operation. At the forefront of this struggle were not only local men, but also many women who identified themselves as feminists from the capital city of Yerevan. Although feminism is marginalized as a political praxis and discourse in the country-including within leftist and prog…
Intimate sovereigns
Since the mid-1990s, Armenia has been dominated politically and economically by an oligarchy. While the figures who form this oligarchy are known as corrupt and brutal in their use of force in governing, their power also depends on intimate, kin-based, clientelist connections to the body politic. I argue that these forms of intimacy-the sharing of cultural values of proper Armenian governance-are established not only on patriarchy in the form of …
Queer Life-Worlds in Postsocialist Armenia
Based on fifteen months of ethnographic research conducted between 2010 and 2013, this article explores queer life-worlds through the Armenian notion of alternativ space, spaces that create possibilities for practices, desires, ways of looking, and being that differ from Armenian national values of propriety. Political-economic reform has created anxieties regarding national propriety and the family’s ability to exist in continuity with a moral p…
The Gender and Sexuality of Armenia
In April 2017 the Armenian Studies Program (ASP) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, held the Eighth Annual Graduate Student Workshop, “Gender and Sexuality in Armenian Studies.”1 The workshop, organized by Jeremy Johnson, a PhD candidate in anthropology and history, and Kathryn Babayan, the director of ASP, is the first academic event in the United States that places Armenian studies in direct conversation with gender and sexuality studies…
The nation-family
Anthropological theorists have often dismissed the notion of nation-as-family as an abstraction or as evidence of nationalist sentiment. But in postsocialist Armenia, nation ispracticedas family. Everyday intimate encounters in public carry narratives of genealogical belonging and expectations based on forms of kin relation. This is particularly notable in the experiences of queer subjects-those who fail to meet the demands and expectations to be…
Fakeness
Fake news and fake social networking profiles have recently come under a great deal of public attention. Much of this attention has focused on the dangers of politics as a space in which inauthenticity is now running rampant. Through an ethnographic exploration of how LGBT activists and their right-wing nationalist opposition make use of fake information and fake social networking profiles in Armenia, I argue that rather than dismissing fakeness …
The illiberal east
In this article, I investigate the ways in which Armenian right-wing nationalists understand the particularities of Armenian culture that stand apart from what they deem ‘Western values’, such as human rights and tolerance for homosexuality. Armenian right-wing nationalists place Armenia within an imaginary geography that I call the ‘Illiberal East,’ making up a part of a ‘Eurasian’ civilization. I discuss the debates in Yerevan surrounding the s…
Intimate sovereigns
Since the mid-1990s, Armenia has been dominated politically and economically by an oligarchy. While the figures who form this oligarchy are known as corrupt and brutal in their use of force in governing, their power also depends on intimate, kin-based, clientelist connections to the body politic. I argue that these forms of intimacy-the sharing of cultural values of proper Armenian governance-are established not only on patriarchy in the form of …
Love and the Liminality of Revolution
The 2019 "Velvet Revolution" in Armenia, which became colloquially referred to as the "Revolution of Love and Solidarity" (April 13-May 1, 2018), made some arguably major political shifts in the postsocialist republic, removing the oligarchic Prime Minister Serj Sargsyan and setting up a new regime that would fight corruption. Through ethnographic research in Yerevan, Armenia's capital, however, I found that many leftist activists who had partici…
Diasporas' Queer Archives
Armenian Studies in Middle East Studies
In thinking about the prompt for this forum—on the ways in which Armenia and Armenians sit within Middle East studies and the ways in which they are often occluded from the sights of Middle East studies—what comes to mind is the critical necessity for internationalism and solidarity. This might at first seem only tangentially or indirectly relevant to the object of investigation here; after all, we are talking about geography, history, and facts.…
Feminist Pedagogies on the Front Lines
In 2018, residents of the Vayots Dzor region in southern Armenia began occupying the entrance to a gold mine owned by Lydian International, at Amulsar mountain, to halt operation. At the forefront of this struggle were not only local men, but also many women who identified themselves as feminists from the capital city of Yerevan. Although feminism is marginalized as a political praxis and discourse in the country-including within leftist and prog…
Sanctions as Siege
When one of us, Tamar Shirinian, joined the other, Lucia Sorbera, as coeditors of “Third Space” in June 2023, we started thinking of a thematic focus for this section of the journal. The effects of economic sanctions in the countries of the SWANA region (Southwest Asia and North Africa) came to mind as a theme that could allow for a broad interdisciplinary discussion and a necessary one. While scholarship on this issue emerged in the late 1990s a…
Introduction to Forum
Life-sustaining transboundary survival
In September 2020, the ‘frozen conflict’ between the Republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh erupted into full combat when Azerbaijan invaded Armenian towns in Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions. In this war, Armenia lost control over parts of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions that it had gained in the early 1990s before a ceasefire agreement in 1994. Most importantly, thousands of young people…
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