Ishkanian, Armine


Dr Armine Ishkanian  

Department

Position held

Department of Social Policy

Lecturer in NGOs and Development

Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit

Associate

Experience keywords:

NGOs; Armenia; democracy-building; civil society; post-Soviet transitions; gender; international development; violence against women; South Caucasus

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Dr Ishkanian has expertise in civil society, democratisation, gender, and development in the post-socialist countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

EnvironmentPolicy and Regulatory BodiesPublic Administration

Countries and regions to which research relates:

South Caucasus; Armenia

Languages:

Russian [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; Armenian [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream pressRadio

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7354

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2012

Ishkanian, Armine (2012) Book review: Citizens’ initiatives in Europe: procedures and consequences of agenda-setting by citizens. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Ishkanian, Armine (2012) Book review: how much impact are protests across Europe really having on re-setting the political agenda? Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Ishkanian, Armine and Szreter, Simon, (eds.) (2012) The big society debate: a new agenda for social welfare? Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 9781781002070

Ishkanian, Armine (2012) From 'shock therapy' to the 'Big Society': lessons from the post-socialist transitions. In: Ishkanian, Armine and Szreter, Simon, (eds.) The big society debate: a new agenda for social welfare?. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 168-178. ISBN 9781781002070

Szreter, Simon and Ishkanian, Armine (2012) What is Big Society?: contemporary social policy in an historical and comparative perspective. In: Ishkanian, Armine and Szreter, Simon, (eds.) The big society debate: a new agenda for social welfare?. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 1-24. ISBN 9781781002070

Ishkanian, Armine (2012) Democracy building and civil society in post-soviet Armenia. Routledge, Abingdon, UK. ISBN 9780415541176

Ishkanian, Armine (2012) To dream the impossible dream. The London School of Economics and Political Science

2009

Ishkanian, Armine (2009) Nonprofit organizations, comparative perspectives. In: Anheier, Helmut K. and Toepler, Stefan, (eds.) International encyclopedia of civil society. Springer, New York, USA, pp. 1091-1095. ISBN 9780387939940

Ishkanian, Armine (2009) Nonprofit sector and poverty reduction. In: Anheier, Helmut K. and Toepler, Stefan, (eds.) International encyclopedia of civil society. Springer, New York, USA, pp. 1099-1103. ISBN 9780387939940

Ishkanian, Armine (2009) Local solutions for global problems: the challenges encountered by the anti-domestic violence campaign in Armenia. In: Shirwadkar, Swati, (ed.) Family violence in India : human rights, issues, actions, and international comparisons. Rawat Publications, Jaipur, India, pp. 441-468. ISBN 9788131602249

Ishkanian, Armine (2008) Democracy building and civil society in post-soviet Armenia. Routledge, Abingdon, UK. ISBN 9780415436014

Howell, Jude and Ishkanian, Armine and Obadare, Ebenezer and Seckinelgin, Hakan and Glasius, Marlies (2008) The backlash against civil society in the wake of the Long War on Terror. Development in practice, 18 (1). pp. 82-93. ISSN 0961-4524

2007

Ishkanian, Armine (2007) Democracy promotion and civil society. In: Albrow, Martin and Glasius, Marlies and Anheier, Helmut K. and Kaldor, Mary, (eds.) Global Civil Society 2007/8 : Communicative Power and Democracy . SAGE publications Ltd, London, UK, pp. 58-85. ISBN 9781412948005

Ishkanian, Armine (2007) Gender mainstreaming in the context of Europe, Central Asia and the CIS: regional challenges. In: Dolata, Nadja, (ed.) Gender mainstreaming in practice: a toolkit. UNDP, Bratislava, Slovakia, pp. 13-20. ISBN 9789295042674

Ishkanian, Armine and Lewis, Jane (2007) Gender, civil society and participation: introduction to the special issue of Social Politics. Social politics: international studies in gender, state & society, 14 (4). pp. 407-414. ISSN 1072-4745

Ishkanian, Armine (2007) En-gendering civil society and democracy building: the anti-domestic violence campaign in Armenia. Social politics: international studies in gender, state & society, 14 (4). pp. 488-525. ISSN 1072-4745

2006

Ishkanian, Armine (2006) From inclusion to exclusion: Armenian NGOs participation in the PRSP. Journal of international development, 18 (5). pp. 729-740. ISSN 0954-1748

Ishkanian, Armine (2006) Social policy and development in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Central Asian survey, 25 (4). pp. 373-385. ISSN 0263-4937

Howell, Jude and Ishkanian, Armine and Obadare, Ebenezer and Seckinelgin, Hakan and Glasius, Marlies (2006) The backlash against civil society in the wake of the long war on terror. Civil Society Working Paper series, 26. Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Ishkanian, Armine (2006) Social policy in Central Asia: special issue. Central asian survey, 25 (4). ISSN 0263-4937

2005

Ishkanian, Armine (2005) Book review: Chechnya: life in a war-torn society. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 11 (2). pp. 378-379. ISSN 1359-0987

Ishkanian, Armine (2005) Diaspora and global civil society: the impact of transnational diasporic activism on Armenia's post-Soviet transition. In: Atabaki, Touraj and Mehendale, Sanjyot, (eds.) Central Asia and the Caucasus: transnationalism and diaspora. Routledge, London, pp. 113-139. ISBN 0415332605

Hasanov, Avaz and Ishkanian, Armine (2005) Bridging divides: civil society peacebuilding initiatives. Accord: an international review of peace initiatives, 17 pp. 44-47. ISSN 1365-0742

2004

Ishkanian, Armine (2004) Home-comings and goings. Diaspora: a journal of transnational studies, 13 (1). ISSN 1911-1568

Ishkanian, Armine (2004) Gendered transitions: the impact of the post-Soviet transition on women in central Asia and the Caucasus. In: Amineh, Mehdi P. and Houweling, Henk, (eds.) Central Eurasia In global politics: conflict, security and development. Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, NL, pp. 161-184. ISBN 9789004128095

Ishkanian, Armine (2004) Working at the local-global intersection: the challenges facing women in Armenia's NGO sector. In: Kuehnast, Kathleen and Nechemias, Carol, (eds.) Post-Soviet Women Encountering Transition: Nation-Building, Economic Survival, and Civic Activism. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, pp. 262-287. ISBN 0801879183

Ishkanian, Armine (2004) Armenians. In: Ember, Carol R and Ember, Melvin, (eds.) Encyclopaedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures. Kluwer/Plenum Publishers along with the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University, New York, pp. 265-273. ISBN 9780306477706

2003

Ishkanian, Armine (2003) Women in Armenia. In: Walter, Lynn, (ed.) The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide: Europe. Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, Connecticut, pp. 33-44. ISBN 9780313318559

Ishkanian, Armine (2003) Training of trainers: the impact of Western experts on local NGO activism in Armenia. In:American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Conference (2003 : Toronto, Canada).

Ishkanian, Armine (2003) Gendered transitions: the impact of the post-Soviet transition on women in central Asia and the Caucasus. Perspectives on global development and technology, 2 (3-4). pp. 475-496. ISSN 1569-1500

Ishkanian, Armine (2003) Is the personal political? The development of Armenia's NGO sector during the post-soviet period. Berkeley program in Soviet and post-Soviet studies working paper series, 2003 03-ishk. Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, California, USA

Ishkanian, Armine (2003) Promoting local approaches to global problems: a reply to my interlocutors. Armenian forum: a journal of contemporary affairs, 3 (1). pp. 69-75. ISSN 1091-4714

Ishkanian, Armine (2003) Importing civil society? The emergence of Armenia's NGO sector and the impact of Western aid on its development. Armenian forum: a journal of contemporary affairs, 3 (1). pp. 7-36. ISSN 1091-4714

2002

Ishkanian, Armine (2002) Mobile motherhood: Armenian women's labor migration in the post-Soviet period. Diaspora: a journal of transnational studies, 11 (3). pp. 383-415. ISSN 1044-2057

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