HU Department for European Ethnology Subproject B4 "Identity Politics between Homeland and Diaspora"
2004 Russkij Berlin. Migrants and Media in Berlin and London, Münster: LIT Verlag
2006 Bringing the Soil back to the Homeland. Reconfigurations of Representation of Loss in Armenia, in: Comparative. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung. Heft 3 Transfer lokalisiert: Konzepte, Akteure, Kontexte, pp.87-101
2006 Russlanddeutsche, Nationalstaat und Familie in transnationaler Zeit. In: Sabine Ipsen-Peitzmeier/ Markus Kaiser (ed.) Zuhause fremd. Russlanddeutsche zwischen Russland und Deutschland, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, pp. 349-364
2005 Recruiting for the Nation. Transnational Migrants in Germany and Kazakhstan. In: Kasten, Erich (ed.) Rebuilding Identities: Pathways to Reform post-Soviet Siberia. Berlin. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, pp. 153-172
2005 Pathways of Migrant Incorporation in Germany. together with Schiller, Glick/ Nina, Schlee Günther/ Nieswand, Boris. In: Transit, Volume 1, Issue 1, Migration, Culture and the Nation State, article 50911, pp. 1-17
2003 Von anderen Deutschen und anderen Juden. Zur kulturellen Integration russischsprachiger Zuwanderer in Berlin. In: Warneken, Bernd / Hauschild, Thomas (ed.) Inspecting Germany. Internationale Deutschland-Ethnographie der Gegenwart, LIT Verlag: Münster, pp. 405-420
2001 “Das fremde Eigene”. Zur Integrationserfahrung post-sowjetischer Zuwanderer in Berlin. In: Rammert, Werner/ Knauthe, Günther a.o. (eds.) Kollektive Identitäten und kulturelle Innovationen. Ethnologische, soziologische und historische Studien. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, pp. 136-142
2000 Managing Identity. Some Insights into Russian Language Media in Berlin. In: Ethnicity and Economy. Centre for Independent Social Studies, St. Petersburg, pp. 96-103
2000 Grenzen und Möglichkeiten ethnischer Medien. In: Dokumentationen der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung “Das russischsprachige Berlin heute”, pp.31-35
1997 Kasachen, Kirgisen und Usbeken in Berlin. Zuwanderer aus den nicht-europäischen Sowjetrepubliken. In: Oswald, Ingrid / Voronkov, Victor (eds.) Post-sowjetische Ethnizitäten. Ethnische Gemeinden in St. Petersburg und Berlin/Potsdam. Berlin: Berliner Debatte Initial, pp. 240-260
1997 Exkurs: “Evropazentr – eine Zeitung in Berlin” – oder “Russischsprachige aller Nationalitäten, vereinigt euch!”. Together with Georg Schütte. In: Oswald, Ingrid/ Voronkov, Victor. (ed.) Post-sowjetische Ethnizitäten. Ethnische Gemeinden in St. Petersburg und Berlin/Potsdam. Berlin, pp. 213-221
1997 “Ich heiratete nicht nur den Mann, sondern auch das Land”. Heiratsmigrantinnen aus der ehemaligen Sowjetunion in Berlin. Together with Stephan Beetz. In. Häußermann, Hartmut (ed.) Zuwanderung und Stadtentwicklung, Leviathan, Sonderband 17/1997 Opladen /Wiesbaden, pp. 386-405
Susanne Schwalgin. “Wir werden niemals vergessen!” Trauma, Erinnerung und Identität in der armenischen Diaspora Griechenlands. In: H-Soz-Kult, from the 06.11.2006 http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen
Hornstein, Caroline S. Grenzgänger. Probleme interkultureller Verständigung. In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 2005, Band 130, Heft 2, 2005, pp. 348-350
Necati Polat, Boundary Issues in Central Asia. In: Europe-Asia Studies Volume 56, Number 2, March 2004, pp. 328-329
2007 Representations on the Margins of Europe. Politics and Identities in the Baltic and South Caucasian States. Together with Wofgang Kaschuba, Reihe “Eigene und Fremde Welten”, Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag
2007 Erinnerung an Gewalt in postsozialistischen Gesellschaften. Berliner Debatte Initial 18, Heft 3. Together with Ingrid Oswald.
2007 Introduction. Together with Wolfgang Kaschuba, in: Representations on the Margins of Europe. Politics and Identities in the Baltic and South Caucasian States. Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag, pp. 11-27
2007 Changing politics of Memory of Loss in Armenia. In: Representations on the Margins of Europe. Politics and Identities in the Baltic and South Caucasian States, Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag, pp. 65-88.
2007 Zur Lokalisierung und Globalisierung armenischer Erinnerungspraktiken. In: Berliner Debatte Initial, Heft 3, Erinnerung an Gewalt in postsozialistischen Gesellschaften. Zusammengestellt von Tsypylma Darieva und Ingrid Oswald
2007 Migrationsforschung in der Ethnologie, in: Brigitte Schmidt-Lauber (ed.) Ethnizität und Migration. Ethnologische Paperbacks, Berlin: Reimer-Verlag
2007 V promezhutke ne zhutko. The image of Russians and Russian Newspapers in Germany. In: Slavic Studies, Sapporo: Hokkaido University
2005-2007 Courses at the Department for European Ethnology, Humboldt University, Berlin on anthropology of migration, trans-nationalism, memory studies
European Network for Migration Studies
SOYUZ Association of Cultural Studies in postsocialist countries
This part of the research project focuses on changing frameworks and meanings of relationships between diaspora and the nation state before and after the independence. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the Armenian national identity has been in the process of redefinition in political, social and cultural terms. Conflicts over notions and boundaries of political and cultural citizenship, homeland and repatriation, are central to the study of establishing a new social order. The question is, how collective values and symbols of shared and divided memory are reconfigured in the context of Soviet past, new Europe and global morality in order to accelerate political and social solidarity? How they are reinterpreted and transformed by ordinary people? What is the role of new players – Armenian „returnees“ in reconfiguration of social and cultural landscapes in urban identity? How were they and how are they excluded from or incorporated into the new society? By looking at performative forms of collective and individual identities, symbolic practices in private and public spaces, the research project intends to understand the ways (trans)national ties, located between Armenia and its diaspora, are revived and represented.