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Self-Determined Citizens? New Forms of Civic Activism and Citizenship in Armenia

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  • Armine Ishkanian

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This article examines the recent emergence and growth of grassroots social movements in Armenia which are locally known as ‘civic initiatives’. It considers what their emergence tells us about the development of civil society and the changing understandings and practices of citizenship in Armenia in the post-Soviet period. It analyses why civic initiatives explicitly reject and distance themselves from formal, professionalised NGOs and what new models of civic activism and citizenship they have introduced. It argues that civic initiatives embrace a more political understanding of civil society than that which was introduced by Western donors in the 1990s.

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  • Armine Ishkanian, 2015. "Self-Determined Citizens? New Forms of Civic Activism and Citizenship in Armenia," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 67(8), pages 1203-1227, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:67:y:2015:i:8:p:1203-1227
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2015.1074981
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    1. Jenderedjian, Anna & Bellows, Anne C., 2021. "Rural poverty, violence, and power: Rejecting and endorsing gender mainstreaming by food security NGOs in Armenia and Georgia," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 140(C).

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