ufajournalФольклор и антропология городаUrban Folklore and Anthropology2658-38952782-1757The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public AdministrationMUGDVCufajournal-74Research ArticleСОУЧАСТВУЮЩЕЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ И ПРОЕКТИРОВАНИЕPARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND DESIGNАффективные карты Гадрута: к вопросу о методологииAffective maps of Hadrut: On methodologyhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1409-3626ШахназарянН. Р.ShahnazaryanN. R.

Нона Робертовна Шахназарян

Ереван

Nonа R. Shahnazaryan

Yerevan

nonashahnazar@gmail.comhttps://orcid.org/0009-0001-0709-2628ХачатуроваА.KhachaturovaA.

Анита Хачатурова

Ереван, Брюссель

Anita Khachaturova

Yerevan, Brussels

Институт археологии и этнографии, Национальная академия наук Республики Армения; Центр независимых социальных исследованийАрменияInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (IAE NAS RA); Center for Independent Social Research Armenia (CISR Armenia)ArmeniaЦентр независимых социальных исследований; Свободный университет БрюсселяАрменияCenter for Independent Social Research Armenia (CISR Armenia); Free University of BrusselsArmenia20252312202574Экскурсия как метод92126Copyright © Шахназарян Н.Р., Хачатурова А., 20252025Шахназарян Н.Р., Хачатурова А.Shahnazaryan N.R., Khachaturova A.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.https://ufajournal.ranepa.ru/jour/article/view/74

Статья посвящена применению метода аффективного картографирования в исследовании памяти, утраты и пространственного воображения среди вынужденных переселенцев из Гадрутского района Нагорного Карабаха после войны 2020 года. Исследование, проведенное в Ереване и Степанакерте в 2022 году, было направлено не на анализ нарративов, а на понимание самого процесса рисования как формы воспоминания. Участникам предлагалось нарисовать «свой Гадрут» — не географически точный, а эмоционально насыщенный образ города, каким они его помнят и переживают. Рисование карт сопровождалось устным рассказом, в котором прошлое соединялось с настоящим моментом высказывания и переноса себя туда и сюда. Этот процесс позволил наблюдать, как телесные и эмоциональные воспоминания оживают через действие, превращая память в событие.

Мы предлагаем рассматривать такие рисунки как идиопространства — личные топографии памяти, аналогичные идиолектам в языке. Каждая карта представляет не только индивидуальный взгляд на город/село, но и способ вновь пережить и артикулировать связь с местом, утратившим материальное присутствие. Метод аффективных карт, таким образом, позволяет реконструировать эмоциональную географию повседневной жизни до утраты и понять, как социальная память формируется через жест, рассказ и соучастие. Аффективное картографирование выступает как гуманитарная и исследовательская практика, в которой личное воспоминание превращается в воображаемое возвращение и повторное переживание дома.

The article discusses the use of affective mapping as a method for studying memory, loss, and spatial imagination among displaced residents of the Hadrut district of Nagorno-Karabakh after the 2020 war. Conducted in Yerevan and Stepanakert in 2022, the study focuses not on analyzing interview data but on understanding the act of drawing as a form of remembering.

Participants were invited to draw “their own Hadrut” — a subjective and emotionally charged image rather than a geographically precise one. The drawings were accompanied by storytelling, where the past intertwined with the present moment of narration and moving back and forth. This process revealed how bodily and emotional memories re-emerge through action, turning recollection into an embodied event.

We conceptualize these maps as idiospaces — personal topographies of memory analogous to idiolects in language. Each map conveys an individual mode of belonging and a way to re-experience and rearticulate connection to a place that no longer exists materially. Affective mapping thus enables the reconstruction of the emotional geography of everyday life before displacement and illuminates how gesture, narration, and shared empathy shape social memory. As a humanistic and anthropological practice, affective cartography becomes a space where personal remembrance is transformed into a collective act of imaginative return and re-inhabitation of home.

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