UID:
almafu_9959127890702883
Format:
1 online resource :
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3 photographs, 4 maps, 1 figur
ISBN:
9780813561646
Series Statement:
Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
Content:
Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained out of sight in the media, such as those against the Circassians, Greeks, Assyrians, the indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia, and the violence that was the precursor to and the aftermath of the Holocaust. The contributors to this collection look at these cases and others from a variety of perspectives. These essays cover the extent to which our biases, our ways of knowing, our patterns of definition, our assumptions about truth, and our processes of remembering and forgetting as well as the characteristics of generational transmission, the structures of power and state ideology, and diaspora have played a role in hiding some events and not others. Noteworthy among the collection’s coverage is whether the trade in African slaves was a form of genocide and a discussion not only of Hutus brutalizing Tutsi victims in Rwanda, but of the execution of moderate Hutus as well. Hidden Genocides is a significant contribution in terms of both descriptive narratives and interpretations to the emerging subfield of critical genocide studies. Contributors: Daniel Feierstein, Donna-Lee Frieze, Krista Hegburg, Alexander Laban Hinton, Adam Jones, A. Dirk Moses, Chris M. Nunpa, Walter Richmond, Hannibal Travis, and Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction: Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, Memory /
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Part One: Genocide and Ways of Knowing --
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1. Does the Holocaust Reveal or Conceal Other Genocides?: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and Grievable Suffering /
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2. Hidden in Plain Sight: Atrocity Concealment in German Political Culture before the First World War /
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3. Beyond the Binary Model: National Security Doctrine in Argentina as a Way of Rethinking Genocide as a Social Practice /
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Part Two: Power, Resistance, and Edges of the State --
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4. “Simply Bred Out”: Genocide and the Ethical in the Stolen Generations /
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5. Historical Amnesia: The “Hidden Genocide” and Destruction of the Indigenous Peoples of the United States /
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6. Circassia: A Small Nation Lost to the Great Game /
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Part Three: Forgetting, Remembering, and Hidden Genocides --
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7. The Great Lakes Genocides: Hidden Histories, Hidden Precedents /
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8. Genocide and the Politics of Memory in Cambodia /
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9. Constructing the “Armenian Genocide”: How Scholars Unremembered the Assyrian and Greek Genocides in the Ottoman Empire /
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10. “The Law Is Such as It Is”: Reparations, “Historical Reality,” and the Legal Order in the Czech Republic /
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.36019/9780813561646
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813561646
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813561646
