The Armenian Intelligentsia Today: Discourses of Self-Identification and Self-Perception
Опубликовано на портале: 13-06-2012
Laboratorium. Журнал социальных исследований.
2012.
№ 1.
С. 76-100.
Тематический раздел:
The terms “intelligentsia” and “intellectuals”—in Armenian, mtavorakanutiun—
are frequently used in the Armenian political, cultural, and domestic life but are
conceptualized and interpreted differently in different contexts. In this article, I
describe the central discursive patterns of self-identification and self-representation
among the contemporary Armenian intelligentsia. The article reveals both
continuities and disruptions with the Russian and Armenian intelligentsia of pre-
revolutionary, Soviet, and post-Soviet times, which leads to new conclusions about
the group and its role in ongoing projects of nation- and state-building. The
Armenian intelligentsia exists as a set of variations on an imagined cultural and
social construct that needs constant fine-tuning and elaboration. The continuous
implicit or explicit discourse on identification, forms of representation and cultural
manifestation, and social roles of the intelligentsia is an important part of the
ongoing process of reconciliation and negotiation of the boundaries between old
and new identities, social structures, hierarchies, roles, behavioral codes, and
systems of values in the modernized and globalized Armenian society. In English,
extended summary in Russian.

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