Knowing about genocide Armenian suffering and epistemic struggles

"How do victim and perpetrator peoples 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 s...

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Main Author: Savelsberg, Joachim J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press 2021, [2021]©2021
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505 0 |a Preface : purpose, author, and acknowledgments -- Introduction : epistemic circle and history of the Armenian genocide -- Social interaction, self-reflection, and struggles over genocide knowledge -- Diaries and bearing witness in the humanitarian field -- Carriers, entrepreneurs and epistemic power : conceptual toolbox toward an understanding of genocide knowledge -- Sedimentation and mutations of Armenian knowledge about the genocide -- Sedimentation of Turkish knowledge about the genocide, and comparisons -- Affirming genocide knowledge through rituals -- Epistemic struggles in the political field : mobilization and legislation in France -- Epistem struggles in the legal field : speech rights, memory, and genocide : curricula before an American court (with Brooke B. Chambers) -- Denialism in an age of human rights hegemony -- Conclusions : closing the epistemic circle and future struggles 
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520 |a "How do victim and perpetrator peoples 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"--