The Nagorno-Karabakh war: disputes over the concepts of 'victim' and 'genocide' in the present time

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This article aims at analyzing the idea of ‘victim’ and the uses of the concept of ‘genocide’ involving Armenians and Azerbaijanis in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. How do the parties mobilize these ideas in order to sustain their political demands regarding that territory and to delegitimize the aspirations of the other? The political leveraging of massacres and genocides for the purpose of raising international support for a cause is important to understand in this regard. We analyze the positions of Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders on the unfrozen conflict between September 27 to November 10, 2020

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Heitor Loureiro, Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisa sobre o Oriente Médio

Doutor em História pela UNESP, com estágio sanduíche (PDSE-CAPES) no Matenadaran Scientific Research Institute, Yerevan, República da  Armênia. Co-organizador do livro "Genocídio Armênio: Negacionismo, Silêncio e direitos humanos" (Editora Humanitas-2015). Atua como professor de Relações Internacionais.

Pedro Bogossian Porto, Universidade de Paris

Doutor em Antropologia pela Universidade de Paris.

Pesquisador associado da Unité de Recherche Migration et Sociétés (URMIS)

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2021-04-30

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LOUREIRO, Heitor; PORTO, Pedro Bogossian. The Nagorno-Karabakh war: disputes over the concepts of ’victim’ and ’genocide’ in the present time. Tempo e Argumento, Florianópolis, v. 13, n. 32, p. e0111, 2021. DOI: 10.5965/2175180313322021e0111. Disponível em: https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/tempo/article/view/2175180313322021e0111. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2024.

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