Identity Politics between Homeland and Diaspora

Director of the project: Prof. Dr. Wolfang Kaschuba.
Graduate researchers: Dr. Tsypylma Darieva; Maike Lehmann, MA. 

This part of the research project focuses on changing frameworks and meanings of relationships between diaspora and the nation state before and after independence. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the Armenian national identity is 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 of a new social order and its transnational representations. 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 and are they excluded from or incorporated into the new society? By looking at different stages of representations of collective and individual identities, symbolic practices in private and public spaces, the research project intends to understand the meaning of transnational interactions between Armenia and its diasporic hot spots.

Director of the project: Prof. Dr. Wolfang Kaschuba

Graduate researchers: Dr. Tsypylma Darieva, Maike Lehmann, MA

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