The Memory of Loss: Voices of Azeri Storytellers from Nagorno Karabakh

Mirzeler, Mustafa Kemal; Jafarov, Agshin

doi:10.1080/13602004.2012.694669

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“…4 Small-scale demonstrations by ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijanis snowballed into a full-fledged war over the territory in 1991 (Najafizadeh 2013;de Waal 2002). Although fighting ostensibly ended in 1994 with a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement (Garagozov 2016), 5 years of military action rendered most towns derelict (Mirzeler and Jafarov 2012), with houses burnt down or dismantled brick by brick. Everything that had made the region livable-from lush orchards filled with pomegranate trees to a tight-knit network of farms, markets, and community spaces-disappeared, giving way to barren landscapes and invasive military infrastructure.…”

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Properties of War: The Militarization of Housing Policy and Urban Planning in Contemporary Azerbaijan

Ihar

2023

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War has defined Azerbaijan for more than three decades. The unresolved conflict over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh has not only structured the sociopolitical climate of the nation but also everyday relations and the very manner in which both the private home and the homeland is imagined. Increasingly, the line has blurred between housing policy and military strategy, with desires for greater securitization and armament seeping into proprietary arrangements, construction plans, and mainstream narratives surrounding the domestic. I examine three sites where inhabitation has seemingly become inextricable from the military apparatus — a state-sponsored apartment block for the families of martyrs (şəhid ailəsi) and those disabled by war (müharibə əlillərinə), a newly built housing complex for servicemen (yüksək rütbəli hərbçilər), and, finally, a makeshift settlement for internally displaced people (məcburi köçkünlər). In these spaces, both temporal and material qualities of war seep into the quotidian, informing the ways in which individuals negotiate the intimate aftermaths of violence, injury, and severed relation. Whilst the article begins by examining state-sponsored settlement forged along lines of allegiance, masculinized duty, and capacity, it concludes by attending to moments that upend oppressive forms of homemaking.

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Section: Situating the Domestic-politicalmentioning

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Properties of War: The Militarization of Housing Policy and Urban Planning in Contemporary Azerbaijan

Ihar

2023

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The Memory of Loss: Voices of Azeri Storytellers from Nagorno Karabakh

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Properties of War: The Militarization of Housing Policy and Urban Planning in Contemporary Azerbaijan

Properties of War: The Militarization of Housing Policy and Urban Planning in Contemporary Azerbaijan

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