Matthew Ghazarian
Biographic Data
| ID | 5443115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Ghazarian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghazarian |
| SIGNATURE | GHAZARIAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0895-2180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Drone Empires
In 2020, Azerbaijan's army forcibly reincorporated most of the majority-Armenian breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Drones sped up the tempo, and commenters credited them as the “magic bullet” that delivered a swift victory. The drones dominated Karabakh's airspace as well as its airtime. Peeling away the techno-spectacle reveals how drones too form overlapping alliances and actor-networks. Connecting drones with pipelines, airplanes, oil, …
Annulled
On October 2, 1878, Narduhi Magarian and Sahag Ağa Tevrizian were wed in the Ottoman border town of Erzurum. Soon afterwards, both of them sought freedom from this union, one foisted upon them by Narduhi’s wealthy, violent, and alcohol-addled father, Garabed Efendi Magarian. The toxic fallout of this failed marriage prompted the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople to order an investigation. The resulting witness testimonies, held in a fragmen…
A Climate of Confessionalization
After the 1877–78 Russo-Ottoman War, the Ottoman Empire saw the rise of ethnic and sectarian clashes in Anatolia, the Balkans, and elsewhere, and the task of explaining that rise remains unfinished. Many have examined the intellectual formations of ethnic and sectarian solidarities after 1878, but the availability of new ideas cannot alone account for their widespread uptake. Why after 1878 did ordinary people respond more to calls upon ethnic an…
Obstruction as Power
This article draws on French and British archival sources to rethink the history of Britain's 1918--1920 occupation of the Caucasus. The extant historiography casts London as eager to reinvigorate the region's oil exports in order to buoy its own supplies, but this article suggests that various elements within and close to the British administration sought to obstruct oil exports. Preventing Caucasus oil from reaching global markets seems to have…
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Obstruction as Power
This article draws on French and British archival sources to rethink the history of Britain's 1918--1920 occupation of the Caucasus. The extant historiography casts London as eager to reinvigorate the region's oil exports in order to buoy its own supplies, but this article suggests that various elements within and close to the British administration sought to obstruct oil exports. Preventing Caucasus oil from reaching global markets seems to have…
A Climate of Confessionalization
After the 1877–78 Russo-Ottoman War, the Ottoman Empire saw the rise of ethnic and sectarian clashes in Anatolia, the Balkans, and elsewhere, and the task of explaining that rise remains unfinished. Many have examined the intellectual formations of ethnic and sectarian solidarities after 1878, but the availability of new ideas cannot alone account for their widespread uptake. Why after 1878 did ordinary people respond more to calls upon ethnic an…
Annulled
On October 2, 1878, Narduhi Magarian and Sahag Ağa Tevrizian were wed in the Ottoman border town of Erzurum. Soon afterwards, both of them sought freedom from this union, one foisted upon them by Narduhi’s wealthy, violent, and alcohol-addled father, Garabed Efendi Magarian. The toxic fallout of this failed marriage prompted the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople to order an investigation. The resulting witness testimonies, held in a fragmen…
Drone Empires
In 2020, Azerbaijan's army forcibly reincorporated most of the majority-Armenian breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Drones sped up the tempo, and commenters credited them as the “magic bullet” that delivered a swift victory. The drones dominated Karabakh's airspace as well as its airtime. Peeling away the techno-spectacle reveals how drones too form overlapping alliances and actor-networks. Connecting drones with pipelines, airplanes, oil, …
History (4 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (2 works) · Administration (probate law (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works)