UID:
almahu_9949863581402882
Format:
1 online resource (265 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520380196
Content:
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more atwww.luminosoa.org. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)--a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries--and the generous support of the University of Minnesota. Learn more at the TOME website, available at openmonographs.org. How do victims and perpetrators generate conflicting knowledge about genocide? Using a sociology of knowledge approach, Savelsberg answers this question for the Armenian genocide committed in the context of the First World War. Focusing on Armenians and Turks, he examines strategies of silencing, denial, and acknowledgment in everyday interaction, public rituals, law, and politics. Drawing on interviews, ethnographic accounts, documents, and eyewitness testimony, Savelsberg illuminates the social processes that drive dueling versions of history. He reveals counterproductive consequences of denial in an age of human rights hegemony, with implications for populist disinformation campaigns against overwhelming evidence.
Note:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. Interaction and Micropolitics of Genocide Knowledge -- 1. Social Interaction, Self-Reflection, and Struggles over Genocide Knowledge -- 2. Diaries and Bearing Witness in the Humanitarian Field -- PART II. Sedimentation -- 3. Carriers, Entrepreneurs, and Epistemic Power -- 4. Sedimentation and Mutations of Armenian Knowledge about the Genocide -- 5. Sedimentation of Turkish Knowledge about the Genocide-and Comparisons -- PART III. Rituals, Epistemic Power, and Conflict over Genocide Knowledge -- 6. Affirming Genocide Knowledge through Rituals -- 7. Epistemic Struggles in the Political Field -- 8. Epistemic Struggles in the Legal Field -- 9. Denialism in an Age of Human Rights Hegemony -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Savelsberg, Joachim J. Knowing about Genocide Berkeley : University of California Press,c2021 ISBN 9780520380189
Language:
English
Keywords:
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