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Conceiving homogenous state-space for the nation: the nationalist discourse on autochthony and the politics of place-naming in Armenia

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  • Husik Ghulyan

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This paper discusses the place-renaming policies in the recent two decades in Armenia. By elaborating on the legal and administrative framework for place-renaming in the country and through the analysis of more than 27,000 geographical names and their renaming practices, the paper focuses on the politics of space/place in Armenia in the context of a nation-state-building. By considering discourses, actors and institutions involved in place-renaming, the paper puts its results into the wider context of nationalism and nation-state-building. With a focus on the notion of raison d'état as a practice of governmentality, the abstract space of the nation-state conceived by experts and nationalist discourse on autochthony, the paper elaborates on the production of nation-state-space in Armenia. The contradictory aspects of place-renaming policies and the relations of exclusion and domination (re)produced in the process of conceiving of the nation-state-space in this country are discussed as well.

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  • Husik Ghulyan, 2021. "Conceiving homogenous state-space for the nation: the nationalist discourse on autochthony and the politics of place-naming in Armenia," Central Asian Survey, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(2), pages 257-281, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ccasxx:v:40:y:2021:i:2:p:257-281
    DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2020.1843405
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