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Dispatch from Armenia: the not so frozen war / Cengel, Katya

Cengel, Katya	Journal Article
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2013.

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I was in Armenia to report on a program as innocuous as they come-the prevention of blindness in premature babies. But during a meeting in the city of Yerevan with one of the humanitarian organizations involved in this project, the conversation turned to war. The leader of the organization introduced several members of the group as "war heroes," then offered a half-hearted apology for bringing politics into the conversation about infant disabilities. Another member corrected her. There was nothing to apologize for, he said. It wasn't politics. It was the reality of life in Armenia. Anyone who fought in the war was a hero.

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Armenia ; Nagorno - Karabakh War ; Yerevan ; War Heroes

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Ignoble savage in urban Yerevan / Fehlings, Susanne

Fehlings, Susanne	Article
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This article focuses on a recent development in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, described by its urban population as a ruralization process. I explore what it means to call something or someone ‘rural’ or ‘urban’, and I compare the social category of ‘rural people’ with the social category of the (old) urban intelligentsia. This includes an analysis and reconsideration of the traditional ‘nature–culture dichotomy’ and its meaning for the architecture and urban planning of Yerevan. It also interrogates the classification of people into newcomers from the countryside, urban dwellers, new elites, and young men called rabiz.

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Collapse ; Urbanism ; Yerevan ; Ruralization ; Sacred Environment ; New Elites

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