Armenian settler colonial studies? Helen Makhdoumian, ‘Armenian Studies in Conversation with Critical Indigenous Studies and Settler Colonial Studies: An Invitation’, Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, 2023 | settler colonial studies blog

Armenian settler colonial studies? Helen Makhdoumian, ‘Armenian Studies in Conversation with Critical Indigenous Studies and Settler Colonial Studies: An Invitation’, Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, 2023

23Apr23

Abstract: This article argues that Armenian Studies can learn from and contribute to the fields of critical Indigenous studies and settler colonial studies in generative ways, especially as those fields increasingly become global in scope. After surveying recent scholarly discourses in Armenian Studies, I illuminate pathways forward for interdisciplinary approaches to the study of indigeneity, colonization, genocide, removal, dispossession, biocultural assimilation, cultural heritage preservation, and memory work. I situate these potential possibilities and needed nuances within a larger discussion on the origins, aims, and current state of critical Indigenous studies and settler colonial studies, two interrelated but distinct modes of inquiry.

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