Memory Books
Mapping Histories of Ethnic Coexistence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3892252 |
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| Authors | Duncan Clarke (0000-0001-8509-3194, Cardiff University, corresponding author), David Clarke (0000-0002-2315-2993, Cardiff University), Nina Parish (0000-0002-3354-3576, University of Stirling) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 256-278 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diaspora A Journal of Transnational Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1044-2057 • E-ISSN: 1911-1568 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/diaspora.24.2.2025.02.24 |
| OpenAlex | W4410232918 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
This article examines Armenian artistic and cultural practitioners' uses of memory-mapping to create representational spaces in book form that challenge hegemonic national representations of territories with multiple, conflicted histories. Such mappings often draw on cartographic documents, but the projects discussed here reflect a broader definition of mapping as process. Vigen Galstyan and Nelli Shishmanyan's (2020) project Before the Crossfire. After the Wall provides a photographic record of everyday life in Armenian villages whose Azerbaijani populations have left since 1991 and tensions over Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) and Georgian villages where both ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijanis still co-exist. The NGO Cultural and Social Narratives Laboratory's project Firdus: Memory of a Place collects family stories, photographs, and documents from the multicultural residents of a central Yerevan street of around eighty houses. Our interpretations of these projects demonstrate that they employ artistic and cultural mapping practices in book form to recover memories of ethnic coexistence in Armenia; community memories that have been marginalized in the wake of three decades of conflict. The multimedial approaches to memory-mapping (oral histories, maps, social media, archival and original photographs) adopted by these texts offer a set of tools for the mapping of community memory. However, from an agonistic perspective, we argue that these tools could also be used to document the historical conditions that precipitated the collapse of coexistence. To this end, we analyze NGO Hazarashen's 2019 project Fragments of Armenia's Soviet Past: Tracing Armenian-Azerbaijani Coexistence to better understand how memory-mapping in book form can engage with political processes that facilitate the breakdown of coexistence
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Shattering Empires
Territory
Agonistic Memory and the Legacy of 20th Century Wars in Europe
Diasporic memory practice on the Internet
On agonistic memory
A Typology of Ethnic Minorities in Armenia
Cartographies of Consensus and Grievance
Democracy and nationalism in Armenia
Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in the South Caucasus. Nagorno-Karabakh and the Legacy of Soviet Nationalities Policy
Conceiving homogenous state-space for the nation
The Forced Resettlement of Azerbaijanis from Armenia, 1948–1953
Postwar Rebuilding and Resettlements in the Soviet Union
Collective Memory and Cultural Identity
Depicting the Past and its Diversity in the Age of Nationalisms
Between Ambivalence and Intrusion
Constructing Primordialism
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Rethinking homecoming
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