Jo Laycock
Biographic Data
| ID | 5442763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jo Laycock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Laycock |
| SIGNATURE | LAYCOCK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1551-3303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Editors’ Preface
At the Crossroads of What? Refugee Histories, the Middle East, and the South Caucasus
The “crossroads” is a recurring trope in popular and academic writing on the South Caucasus. This trope can conjure simplistic explanatory frameworks of timeless “silk road” connectivity, or of the region as a meeting point of East and West, democracy and authoritarianism, or Christianity and Islam. However, it also is evocative of the powerful ways that the movement of people, goods, and ideas across the region have shaped its past and present. …
Aid to Armenia
Unsettled
Dramatic scenes of arrival at ports and airports play an iconic role in the representation of refugees in both the contemporary media and the historical imagination. Much less well represented, as Jordanna Bailkin observes, are the aftermaths of these arrivals, more specifically the times and spaces ‘in between’ the moment of debarkation and the ‘end point’ of integration—or its failure. Bailkin’s excellent book addresses this gap in our understa…
Justifying Genocide
In Justifying Genocide, Stefan Ihrig provides the most detailed and wide ranging analysis to date of the evolution of German representations of the Armenians and responses to the Armenian Genocide of 1915. At the core of his analysis is an examination of the legacies of these responses and their implications for our understanding of the Holocaust. Ihrig’s analysis is divided into four sections. The first examines German perceptions of Armenians f…
Bread from Stones
The Armenian Genocide centenary of 2015 has coincided with significant shifts in the historiography of the causes and consequences of the violence perpetrated against the Ottoman Armenians. A new wave of scholarship has drawn upon a diverse and innovative range of archival resources. It has also developed new critical approaches which connect the fate of the Armenians to broader themes in modern history, not least the nature of violence against c…
Survivor or Soviet Stories? Repatriate Narratives in Armenian Histories, Memories and Identities
Following the Second World War around 100,000 diaspora Armenians answered Stalin’s invitation to resettle in the Soviet Republic of Armenia. This article examines a set of memoirs published by Armenians who, after resettling in the Soviet Union, eventually returned to diaspora communities in Europe, the Middle East and the United States. Drawing upon Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory, I address the ways in which these narratives were shaped…
The great catastrophe
On the eve of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide in April of last year, Pope Francis described the fate of the Ottoman Armenians as the ‘first genocide of the twentieth century’. His comments f
Beyond National Narratives? Centenary Histories, the First World War and the Armenian Genocide Armenian Genocide
In April 2015 the centenary of the Armenian Genocide was commemorated. Just like the First World War centenary, this anniversary has provoked a flurry of academic and public interest in what remains a highly contested history. This article assesses the state of the current historiography on the fate of the Ottoman Armenians. It focuses on the possibilities for moving beyond the national narratives which continue to dominate the field, in particul…
Where Do They Get These Ideas? Changing Ideas of Cults in the Mirror of Popular Culture
Journal Article Where Do They Get These Ideas? Changing Ideas of Cults in the Mirror of Popular Culture Get access Joseph Laycock Joseph Laycock * *Joseph Laycock, Piedmont Virginia Community College, 501 County Road 338, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 81, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 80–106, h…
Armenian Homelands and Homecomings, 1945–9
This article, based on research in the Armenian National Archives, focuses upon a neglected aspect of early Cold War history, the repatriation of diasporan Armenians to the Soviet Union (1945–9). I highlight the contested and historically conditioned nature of homelands, examining the multiple ways in which Soviet authorities and diaspora agencies attempted to authenticate Soviet Armenia as a ‘homeland’. Armenian constructions of homeland were tr…
Armenian Homelands and Homecomings, 1945–9
This article, based on research in the Armenian National Archives, focuses upon a neglected aspect of early Cold War history, the repatriation of diasporan Armenians to the Soviet Union (1945–9). I highlight the contested and historically conditioned nature of homelands, examining the multiple ways in which Soviet authorities and diaspora agencies attempted to authenticate Soviet Armenia as a ‘homeland’. Armenian constructions of homeland were tr…
Beyond National Narratives? Centenary Histories, the First World War and the Armenian Genocide Armenian Genocide
In April 2015 the centenary of the Armenian Genocide was commemorated. Just like the First World War centenary, this anniversary has provoked a flurry of academic and public interest in what remains a highly contested history. This article assesses the state of the current historiography on the fate of the Ottoman Armenians. It focuses on the possibilities for moving beyond the national narratives which continue to dominate the field, in particul…
At the Crossroads of What? Refugee Histories, the Middle East, and the South Caucasus
The “crossroads” is a recurring trope in popular and academic writing on the South Caucasus. This trope can conjure simplistic explanatory frameworks of timeless “silk road” connectivity, or of the region as a meeting point of East and West, democracy and authoritarianism, or Christianity and Islam. However, it also is evocative of the powerful ways that the movement of people, goods, and ideas across the region have shaped its past and present. …
Where Do They Get These Ideas? Changing Ideas of Cults in the Mirror of Popular Culture
Journal Article Where Do They Get These Ideas? Changing Ideas of Cults in the Mirror of Popular Culture Get access Joseph Laycock Joseph Laycock * *Joseph Laycock, Piedmont Virginia Community College, 501 County Road 338, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 81, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 80–106, h…
Armenian Homelands and Homecomings, 1945–9
This article, based on research in the Armenian National Archives, focuses upon a neglected aspect of early Cold War history, the repatriation of diasporan Armenians to the Soviet Union (1945–9). I highlight the contested and historically conditioned nature of homelands, examining the multiple ways in which Soviet authorities and diaspora agencies attempted to authenticate Soviet Armenia as a ‘homeland’. Armenian constructions of homeland were tr…
Where Do They Get These Ideas? Changing Ideas of Cults in the Mirror of Popular Culture
Journal Article Where Do They Get These Ideas? Changing Ideas of Cults in the Mirror of Popular Culture Get access Joseph Laycock Joseph Laycock * *Joseph Laycock, Piedmont Virginia Community College, 501 County Road 338, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 81, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 80–106, h…
Beyond National Narratives? Centenary Histories, the First World War and the Armenian Genocide Armenian Genocide
In April 2015 the centenary of the Armenian Genocide was commemorated. Just like the First World War centenary, this anniversary has provoked a flurry of academic and public interest in what remains a highly contested history. This article assesses the state of the current historiography on the fate of the Ottoman Armenians. It focuses on the possibilities for moving beyond the national narratives which continue to dominate the field, in particul…
Survivor or Soviet Stories? Repatriate Narratives in Armenian Histories, Memories and Identities
Following the Second World War around 100,000 diaspora Armenians answered Stalin’s invitation to resettle in the Soviet Republic of Armenia. This article examines a set of memoirs published by Armenians who, after resettling in the Soviet Union, eventually returned to diaspora communities in Europe, the Middle East and the United States. Drawing upon Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory, I address the ways in which these narratives were shaped…
The great catastrophe
On the eve of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide in April of last year, Pope Francis described the fate of the Ottoman Armenians as the ‘first genocide of the twentieth century’. His comments f
Bread from Stones
The Armenian Genocide centenary of 2015 has coincided with significant shifts in the historiography of the causes and consequences of the violence perpetrated against the Ottoman Armenians. A new wave of scholarship has drawn upon a diverse and innovative range of archival resources. It has also developed new critical approaches which connect the fate of the Armenians to broader themes in modern history, not least the nature of violence against c…
Justifying Genocide
In Justifying Genocide, Stefan Ihrig provides the most detailed and wide ranging analysis to date of the evolution of German representations of the Armenians and responses to the Armenian Genocide of 1915. At the core of his analysis is an examination of the legacies of these responses and their implications for our understanding of the Holocaust. Ihrig’s analysis is divided into four sections. The first examines German perceptions of Armenians f…
Unsettled
Dramatic scenes of arrival at ports and airports play an iconic role in the representation of refugees in both the contemporary media and the historical imagination. Much less well represented, as Jordanna Bailkin observes, are the aftermaths of these arrivals, more specifically the times and spaces ‘in between’ the moment of debarkation and the ‘end point’ of integration—or its failure. Bailkin’s excellent book addresses this gap in our understa…
Aid to Armenia
At the Crossroads of What? Refugee Histories, the Middle East, and the South Caucasus
The “crossroads” is a recurring trope in popular and academic writing on the South Caucasus. This trope can conjure simplistic explanatory frameworks of timeless “silk road” connectivity, or of the region as a meeting point of East and West, democracy and authoritarianism, or Christianity and Islam. However, it also is evocative of the powerful ways that the movement of people, goods, and ideas across the region have shaped its past and present. …
Editors’ Preface
History (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Armenian (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (6 works) · Genocide (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)