2016/02/12 by Susanne Fehlings · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Turkey's Politics and Society
paper · doi:10.1080/02634937.2015.1134142
openalex publication_date 2016/02/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
This article focuses on a recent development in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, described by its urban population as a ruralization process. I explore what it means to call something or someone ‘rural’ or ‘urban’, and I compare the social category of ‘rural people’ with the social category of the (old) urban intelligentsia. This includes an analysis and reconsideration of the traditional ‘nature–culture dichotomy’ and its meaning for the architecture and urban planning of Yerevan. It also interrogates the classification of people into newcomers from the countryside, urban dwellers, new elites, and young men called rabiz.