Patronages in the Absence of the State
Modernisation Projects in the Late 19th‐Century Eastern Armenian Press
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24229948 |
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| Authors | M M Karapetyan (0009-0003-4380-0294, Faculty of Journalism Yerevan State University Yerevan Armenia) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publication date | 2026-07-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nations and Nationalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1345-5078 • E-ISSN: 1469-8129 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/nana.70097 |
| OpenAlex | W7169096882 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This article examines the modernisation projects formulated within the Armenian press during the late nineteenth century under Russian imperial rule. The press's agency in creating modernisation projects is analysed not only in the Andersonian sense of providing the possibility of imagining a nation, but also in terms of its specific function as an institution of a stateless nation. The article examines the interpretive stances and conceptual frameworks that patrons supplied—both through direct financial influence and indirect ideological support—and explores how different forms of patronage shaped the editorial directions of various periodicals. At the same time, it investigates what the press itself patronised, functioning as an agent of institutional construction. A key finding is the ‘unequal distribution’ of cultural, economic, and political components of modernisation. Moreover, the article argues that the activation of the purely political renders the fractures within the ‘package’ of modernisation components all the more visible.
Armenian press · editorial direction · Late 19th century · modernization · Nation-building · Patronage · political modernization · Russian imperial rule · stateless nations · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Media, Journalism, and Communication History · Soviet and Russian History
| Highly cited | No |
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