Aid to Armenia : Humanitarianism and Intervention from the 1890s to the Present / edited by Joanne Laycock and Francesca Piana.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laycock, Jo, editor.

Piana, Francesca, editor.

Series:

Humanitarianism (Series)

Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarianism.

Humanitarianism--Armenia.

Armenia--History.

Armenia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Scholars and practitioners alike have identified interventions on behalf of Armenians as watersheds in the history of humanitarianism. This volume reassesses these claims, critically examining a range of interventions by governments, international and diasporic organisations and individuals that aimed to bring ‘aid to Armenia’. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines, the chapters trace the history of these interventions from the 1890s to the present, paying particular attention to the aftermaths of the Genocide and the upheavals of the post-Soviet period. Geographically, they connect diverse spaces, including the Caucasus, Russia and the Middle East, Europe, North America and South America, and Australia, revealing shifting transnational networks of aid and intervention. These chapters are followed by reflections by leading scholars in the fields of refugee history and Armenian history, Professor Peter Gatrell and Professor Ronald Grigor Suny, respectively.-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction

Jo Laycock and Francesca Piana1 Humanitarian accountability: Anglo-American relief during the Hamidian massacres, 1894-98

Stephanie Prevost2 Pragmatism and personalities: Etienne Brasil and Brazilian engagement with Armenia, 1912-22

Heitor Loureiro3 'An appeal from afar': the challenges of compassion and the Australian humanitarian campaigns for Armenian relief, 1900-30

Joy Damousi4 Humanitarian crisis at the Ottoman-Russian border: Russian imperial responses to Armenian refugees of war and genocide, 1914-15

Asya Darbinyan5 'Making good' in the Near East: The Smith College Relief Unit, Near East Relief, and visions of Armenian reconstruction, 1919-21

Rebecca Jinks6 Care and connections: Orphans, refugees, and Norwegian relief in the Soviet Armenian Republi,c 1922-25

Inger Marie Okkenhaug7 Humanitarian Diaspora? The AGBU in Soviet Armenia, 1920-30s

Vahe Tachjian 8 Tremor and change: Humanitarian interventions after the 1988 earthquake in Armenia

Katja Doose9 Humanitarian intervention meets a de facto state: International peacebuilding consortiums in Nagorny Karabakh, 2003-16

Laurence Broers10 Refuge in the 'homeland': The Syrians in Armenia

Sossie KasbarianAfterword: Displacement and the humanitarian response to suffering: reflections on aiding Armenia

Peter GatrellEpilogue

Ronald Grigor Suny

Notes:

Description based on publisher's data.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-5261-4222-8

1-5261-4221-X

OCLC:

1202981438