Abstract
ABSTRACT In September 2020, the ‘frozen conflict’ between the Republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh erupted into full combat when Azerbaijan invaded Armenian towns in Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions. In this war, Armenia lost control over parts of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions that it had gained in the early 1990s before a ceasefire agreement in 1994. Most importantly, thousands of young people lost their lives. In September 2023, following a nine-month blockade of the region, Azerbaijan invaded and took over, leading to the exodus of the remaining 100,000 Armenians of the region. In this speculative article-provocation, examining heritage discourses popular in Armenia and the Armenian Diaspora, we argue that what counts as heritage in the context of present political claims regarding land, territoriality, and culture insists on what we call national survival that necessitates restrictive lives (especially for women) as well as death (for soldiers). We, thus, ponder the possibility of what we call life-sustaining transboundary survival by imagining a different relation to heritage, drawing on shared inheritance of interconnected culture, knowledge, and water.
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