Series | Eurasian Studies
Edited book | At the Crossroads of Civilizations
Chapter | L’orizzonte straniero
L’orizzonte straniero
L’immaginario dell’altro in una provincia turca al confine con la Repubblica d’Armenia
Abstract
In the last decade the Turkish government has definitively moved towards Baku, sacrificing its international relations with the Armenian world. This policy has affect Iğdır il, a little-known Turkish province at the foot of Mount Ararat that borders Armenia, Nakhchivan and Iran. Focusing the attention on the mark of the Turkish nation-state on the landscape, some ethnographic cases offer the opportunity to reflect upon Igdir’s social context and historical heritage. The aim is to show both discrepancies and affinities between the Turkish governmental policies and the perception of Armenians otherness among locals. Finally, the analysis show the disconnection between cultural diversity and geographical distance expressed by the locals.
Language: it
Copyright © 2014 Giacomo Golinelli. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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