"Civilizing the city center": Symbolic spaces and narratives of the nation in Yerevan's post-Soviet landscape

Nationalities Papers

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 570-589

  Ter Ghazaryan, Diana K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

cultural geography; landscape and identity; post Soviet

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; CULTURAL IDENTITY; CULTURAL RELATIONS; ELITE POLITICS; LANDSCAPE; MODERNIZATION; NATIONALISM;

ARMENIA [WEST ASIA]; YEREVAN;

EID: 84880639853     PISSN: 00905992     EISSN: 14653923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00905992.2013.802766     Document Type: Article

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