Armine Ishkanian

Ishkanian, Armine (2017) Book review: Փոփոխության Որոնումներ (Quest for Change), Socioscope NGO by Anna Zhamakochyan, Zhanna Andreasyan, Sona Manusyan, and Arpy Manusyan (2016) Caucasus Analytical Digest, 91. 11-13. ISSN 1867-9323

Ishkanian, Armine (2017) Answering the age-old question: what does democracy mean to those who protest for it? British Politics and Policy at LSE (6 Feb 2017) Blog entry

Ishkanian, Armine (2017) Armenia’s election: the status quo wins at the expense of democracy LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog (4 Apr 2017) Blog entry

Ishkanian, Armine and Glasius, Marlies (2017) What does democracy mean? Activist views and practices in Athens, Cairo, London and Moscow Democratization, 24 (6). 1006-1024. ISSN 1351-0347

Ishkanian, Armine (2016) Ինքնորուշված Քաղաքացիներ. քաղակացիական ակտիվիզմի նոր ալիքը Հայաստանում (Ink’nowrowšvaç K’aġak’ac’iner. k’aġakac’iakan aktivizmi nor alik’ë Hayastanowm) In: Zhamakochyan, Anna and Manusyan, Arpy and Andreasyan, Zhanna and Manusyan, Sona, (eds.) Պայքարի Փորձեր (Payk’ari P’orjer). Socioscope, Yereva, Armenia, 65-77.

Ishkanian, Armine (2016) Challenging the gospel of neoliberalism?: civil society opposition to mining in Armenia In: Coy, Patrick, G., (ed.) Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change. Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, 39. Emerald.

Ishkanian, Armine (2015) Self-determined citizens? A new wave of civic activism in ArmeniaopenDemocracy (16 Jun 2015) opinion

Glasius, Marlies and Ishkanian, Armine (2015) Surreptitious symbiosis: the relationship between NGO’s and movement activists openDemocracy (29 Jul 2015) opinion

Glasius, Marlies and Ishkanian, Armine (2015) Surreptitious symbiosis: engagement between activists and NGOs VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 26 (6). 2620-2644. ISSN 0957-8765

Ishkanian, Armine (2015) Book review: Linda Milbourne voluntary sector in transition: hard times or new opportunities? Critical Social Policy, 35 (1). 158-160. ISSN 0261-0183

Ishkanian, Armine (2014) Book review: rediscovering voluntary action: the beat of adifferent drum by Colin Rochester LSE Review of Books (30 Apr 2014) Blog entry

Ishkanian, Armine (2014) Self-determined citizens? new forms of civic activism and citizenship in Armenia Europe-Asia Studies, 67 (8). 1203-1227. ISSN 0966-8136

Ishkanian, Armine (2014) Neoliberalism and violence: the Big Society and the changing politics of domestic violence in England Critical Social Policy, 34 (3). 333-353. ISSN 0261-0183

Ishkanian, Armine and Glasius, Marlies and Ali, Irum S. (2013) Reclaiming democracy in the square? Interpreting the movements of 2011-12 Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Ishkanian, Armine (2013) Reclaiming democracy in the square: two years on from Occupy LondonBritish Politics and Policy at LSE (7 Oct 2013) Blog entry

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, 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, 1-24. ISBN 9781781002070

Ishkanian, Armine (2012) From shock therapy to 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, 168-178. ISBN 9781781002070

Szreter, Simon and Ishkanian, Armine (2012) Introduction: what is big society? Contemporary social policy in a historical and comparative perspective In: Szreter, Simon and Ishkanian, Armine, (eds.) The Big Society Debate: a New Agenda for Social Welfare?. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 1-24. ISBN 9781781002070

Ishkanian, Armine (2012) Book review: Citizens’ initiatives in Europe: procedures and consequences of agenda-setting by citizens LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog (20 May 2012) Blog entry

Ishkanian, Armine (2012) Book review: how much impact are protests across Europe really having on re-setting the political agenda? LSE Review of Books (16 May 2012) Blog entry

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) Democracy building and civil society in post-soviet Armenia Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series. Routledge, Abingdon, UK. ISBN 9780415541176

Flinders, Matthew and Ishkanian, Armine and Lawson, George and Mollett, Amy and Brumley, Cheryl (2012) Democracy and its discontents The London School of Economics and Political Science

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, 1099-1103. ISBN 9780387939940

Ishkanian, Armine (2009) (Re)claiming the emancipatory potential of civil society: a critical examination of civil society and democracy building programs in Armenia since 1991 Armenian Review, 51 (1-4). 9-34. ISSN 0004-2366

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, 441-468. ISBN 9788131602249

Ishkanian, Armine (2008) Democracy contested: Armenia’s fifth presidential elections Open Democracy (4 Mar 2008) opinion

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 TerrorDevelopment in Practice, 18 (1). 82-93. ISSN 0961-4524

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 and Society, 14 (4). 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 and Society, 14 (4). 488-525. ISSN 1072-4745

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. Global Civil Society - Year Books. SAGE publications Ltd, London, UK, 58-85. ISBN 9781412948005

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

Ishkanian, Armine (2006) From inclusion to exclusion: Armenian NGOs participation in the PRSPJournal of International Development, 18 (5). 729-740. ISSN 0954-1748

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. ISBN 9780853280644

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

Hasanov, Avaz and Ishkanian, Armine (2005) Bridging divides: civil society peacebuilding initiativesAccord: an International Review of Peace Initiatives, 17. 44-47. ISSN 1365-0742

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, 265-273. ISBN 9780306477706

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. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Vol. 1. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 262-287. ISBN 0801879183

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. International studies in sociology and social anthropology. Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, NL, 161-184. ISBN 9789004128095

Ishkanian, Armine (2003) Promoting local approaches to global problems: a reply to my interlocutors Armenian Forum: a Journal of Contemporary Affairs, 3 (1). 69-75. ISSN 1091-4714

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) 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). 7-36. ISSN 1091-4714

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). 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.