{"id":8236,"date":"2026-05-05T23:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zwetajewa-zentrum.de\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=8236"},"modified":"2026-05-05T23:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:21:33","slug":"the-nation-as-colony-veronika-zablotsky","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.zwetajewa-zentrum.de\/en\/veranstaltung\/the-nation-as-colony-veronika-zablotsky\/","title":{"rendered":" The Nation as Colony. VERONIKA ZABLOTSKY"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"Diaspora and Development in the Armenian Republic<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The ambivalent positioning of Armenians as intermediaries between \u201eEast\u201c and \u201eWest\u201c shaped histories of displacement and resettlement in the borderlands of West Asia. Moving across trans-imperial geographies \u2013 from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic \u2013 this lecture zooms in on key conjunctures at which colonial logics of race, empire, and development disarticulated place-based Armenian claims to Indigeneity while informing political imaginaries of the Armenian nation as a kind of colony. After discussing the entanglements of colonial British colonial property, international humanitarian interventions, Soviet emancipation projects, and neoliberal development in post-Soviet Armenia, the lecture introduces the speaker’s original concept of \u201edevelopmentality\u201d to theorize a seemingly enduring rationality of government that exceeds the state and operates through diasporic investment.<\/p>\n

What emerges is a critical rethinking of diaspora not as a condition to be resolved through national reconstitution but a generative form of fragmentation that opens onto political futures in and beyond Armenia, reimagined through a postcolonial feminist lens.<\/p>\n

Einf\u00fchrung, Moderation und Organisation: Dr. Melanie Altanian<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Veronika Zablotsky<\/strong> ist politische Theoretikerin und forscht zu globaler Migrations- und Imperialgeschichte, transnationaler Solidarit\u00e4t und sozialen Bewegungen, sowie Neoliberalismus und Diaspora im post-sowjetischen Raum. Sie lehrte zuletzt am Institut f\u00fcr Philosophie der Freien Universit\u00e4t Berlin. Zu ihren Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen z\u00e4hlen der Sammelband The Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism (Routledge, 2024) sowie das Buchkapitel \u201eRethinking the Right to Know and the Case for Restorative Epistemic Reparation\u201d (Journal of Social Philosophy, 2024).<\/p>\n

Dr. Melanie Altanian<\/strong> ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin fu\u0308r Erkenntnistheorie und Wissenschaftsphilosophie am University College Freiburg. Dort lehrt und forscht sie unter anderem in den Bereichen politische Erkenntnistheorie, Moral- und Sozialphilosophie, insbesondere zu Fragen epistemischer Ungerechtigkeit und sch\u00e4dlicher Unwissenheit. Zu ihren Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen z\u00e4hlen die Monografie The Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism (Routledge, 2024) sowie der Zeitschriftenartikel \u201eRethinking the Right to Know and the Case for Restorative Epistemic Reparation\u201d (Journal of Social Philosophy, 2024).<\/p>\n

Bild: \u00a9 Sara Bahadori<\/p>\n

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Diaspora and Development in the Armenian Republic The ambivalent positioning of Armenians as intermediaries between \u201eEast\u201c and \u201eWest\u201c shaped histories of displacement and resettlement in the borderlands of West Asia. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[88,40],"class_list":["post-8236","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-diskussion","tribe_events_cat-vortrag","cat_diskussion","cat_vortrag"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zwetajewa-zentrum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/8236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zwetajewa-zentrum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zwetajewa-zentrum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zwetajewa-zentrum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zwetajewa-zentrum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/8236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8242,"href":"https:\/\/www.zwetajewa-zentrum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/8236\/revisions\/8242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zwetajewa-zentrum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zwetajewa-zentrum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8236"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zwetajewa-zentrum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=8236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}