Project description
Post-genocide memory and resilience of Musa Dagh Armenians
The Musa Dagh resistance was a notable act of self-defence during the 1915 Armenian Genocide. The Armenians of Musa Dagh, once part of a unified community in the late Ottoman Empire, suffered forced displacements and experienced various political systems. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the MusaMemory project will explore how the memory of the 1915 Musa Dagh resistance was shaped in Vakıflı (Turkey), Anjar (Lebanon) and Musaler (Armenia). The project will analyse commemorative practices, narratives and gender dynamics, particularly the roles of women in the Musa Dagh community. The project will contribute to discussions in memory studies and challenge traditional nation-state-centred frameworks, offering new insights into collective memory and resilience after violence.
Objective
This project explores how the collective memory of the 1915 Musa Dagh resistance—an exceptional episode of armed self-defense during the Armenian Genocide—has been shaped, transformed, or obscured across three post-imperial national contexts: Vakıflı (Turkey), Anjar (Lebanon), and Musaler (Armenia). Once part of a cohesive community in the late Ottoman Empire, the Musa Dagh Armenians experienced multiple forced displacements and became embedded in divergent political systems and memory regimes.
The research investigates how contrasting ideological environments influence commemorative practices, intergenerational narratives, and symbolic representations of trauma and resistance. Using a comparative, multi-sited ethnographic approach, it will examine archival materials, public rituals, oral histories, and visual culture to uncover how memory is actively constructed and negotiated. Special attention will be paid to gendered dynamics—such as the role of women who married into or out of the Musa Dagh community—and their impact on belonging and remembrance.
The project will contribute to theoretical debates in memory studies, diaspora anthropology, and post-genocide identity by highlighting how one historical event is remembered through competing lenses of nationalism, religious tradition, and minority survival. Rather than assuming fixed narratives, it will analyze how communities interpret the past under changing political and cultural pressures. By foregrounding a non-Western case of post-imperial fragmentation, this study challenges nation-state-centered memory frameworks and advances new models for understanding transgenerational memory and symbolic resilience in the aftermath of collective violence.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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Austria
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