Hidden Genocides : : Power, Knowledge, Memory / / ed. by Alexander Laban Hinton, Thomas La Pointe, Douglas Irvin-Erickson.

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 o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2013]
©2014
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 3 photographs, 4 maps, 1 figur
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, Memory
  • Part One: Genocide and Ways of Knowing
  • 1. Does the Holocaust Reveal or Conceal Other Genocides?: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and Grievable Suffering
  • 2. Hidden in Plain Sight: Atrocity Concealment in German Political Culture before the First World War
  • 3. Beyond the Binary Model: National Security Doctrine in Argentina as a Way of Rethinking Genocide as a Social Practice
  • Part Two: Power, Resistance, and Edges of the State
  • 4. “Simply Bred Out”: Genocide and the Ethical in the Stolen Generations
  • 5. Historical Amnesia: The “Hidden Genocide” and Destruction of the Indigenous Peoples of the United States
  • 6. Circassia: A Small Nation Lost to the Great Game
  • Part Three: Forgetting, Remembering, and Hidden Genocides
  • 7. The Great Lakes Genocides: Hidden Histories, Hidden Precedents
  • 8. Genocide and the Politics of Memory in Cambodia
  • 9. Constructing the “Armenian Genocide”: How Scholars Unremembered the Assyrian and Greek Genocides in the Ottoman Empire
  • 10. “The Law Is Such as It Is”: Reparations, “Historical Reality,” and the Legal Order in the Czech Republic
  • Contributors
  • Index