Knowing about Genocide : : Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles / / Joachim J. Savelsberg.

• VerfasserIn: Savelsberg, Joachim J., 1951-,
• MitwirkendeR: Chambers, Brooke B.,; Savelsberg, Joachim J., 1951-,
• Place / Publishing House: Berkeley, CA : : University of California Press,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Preface: Purpose, Author, and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Epistemic Circle and History of the Armenian Genocide -- 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: CARRIER GROUPS AND KNOWLEDGE ENTREPRENEURS -- 3 Carriers, Entrepreneurs, and Epistemic Power-a Conceptual Toolbox toward an Understanding of Genocide Knowledge -- 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-Mobilization and Legislation in France -- 8 Epistemic Struggles in the Legal Field- Speech Rights, Memory, and Genocide Curricula before an American Court -- 9 Denialism in an Age of Human Rights Hegemony -- Conclusions: Closing the Epistemic Circle and Future Struggles -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX