title: Planted Flags? The Political Life of Trees and Arboreal Patriotism in Armenia
abstract: This chapter examines how national emotional attachments to the new independent state are shaped using natural phenomena as national symbols, such as the apricot and the pomegranate. It focuses on the relationship between nature and politics, and on the ways certain trees are vernacularized in Armenia to act as powerful tools in daily patriotic processes. An important aspect of this research is the emerging nationalism that is crafted by transnational actors, namely the members of Armenian diasp