Documenting the Armenian Genocide : : Essays in Honor of Taner Akçam.

• Superior document: Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide Series.
• Author: Kühne, Thomas.
• TeilnehmendeR: Rein, Mary Jane.; Mamigonian, Marc A., 1968-
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave studies in the history of genocide
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Praise for Documenting the Armenian Genocide -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- The Life of a Scholar Activist -- Taner Akçam and Armenian Genocide Studies -- Essays Honoring Taner Akçam -- Taner Akçam, Istanbul, My Bridge -- Istanbul, My Bridge -- The Victims of "Safety": The Destiny of Armenian Women and Girls Who Were Not Deported from Trabzon -- Introduction -- The Official Decree of the Deportation and Assurances of "Safety" -- Female Witnesses of the Trabzon Trial -- Conclusion -- Cohabitating in Captivity: Vartouhie Calantar Nalbandian (Zarevand) at the Women's Section of Istanbul's Central Prison (1915-1918) -- Early Years -- Arrest and Military Tribunal -- The Ward World of a "Political Mademoiselle" -- An Autoethnographer Behind the Bars -- Fellow Inmates: Friend or Foe? -- Sisters of Misfortune -- Armenian Women's Prison Memoirs in Comparison -- Vartouhie Calantar's Later Life in America -- Mediatized Witnessing, Spectacles of Pain, and Reenacting Suffering: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarian Cinema -- Introduction -- Testimony, Truth-Claims, and Technologies of Witnessing -- Suffering Bodies, Spectacles of Pain, and Marketing of Agony -- Gendered Violence, Martyrdom, Slavery -- Encounters with "Non-Children" and NER's Doors to Heaven -- Reenactment as Resuffering -- An Embodied Representation of the Genocide -- Being Saved to Serve -- Conclusion -- "Special Kind of Refugees": Assisting Armenians in Erzincan, Bayburt, and Erzurum -- The War on the Caucasus Front and the Armenians -- Assisting Refugees -- "Special" Category of Refugees in Bayburt and Erzincan -- Challenges of the Relief Work -- Erzincan -- Bayburt -- Erzurum -- Conclusion -- On the Verge of Death and Survival: Krikor Bogharian's Diary -- Deportations in Aintab.

Krikor Bogharian in Exile and His Diary: Conditions of Deportees -- Starvation, Epidemics and Sexual Abuse -- Forced Conversion -- Conclusion -- Categories and Their Interstices: The Armenian Genocide Beyond Resistance and Accommodation -- Collaborators -- Resisters -- Interstitials -- Conclusion -- The Property Law and the Spoliation of Ottoman Armenians -- "National Assets" -- Private Assets -- The Constitutional Period (1908-1914) -- The Great War and the Spoliation of Armenian Assets -- In the Wake of the Armistice: Restitution or Absorption of Armenian Assets -- Refocusing on-Crimes Against-Humanity -- Refocusing on Humankind and Crimes Against Humanity -- Conceiving Genocide -- Religious Prefiguration -- Social Contract: Agreeing on Individual Dignity, Common Good and Vital Interests -- Conclusion -- Taner Akçam as Scholar-Activist and Armenian-Turkish Relations -- The Margins of Academia or Challenging the Official Ideology -- Anti-imperialism as Anti-Christian Discourse -- Class Struggles, and Struggles Among the Nations -- Kemalism, Revolution, Nationalism, and Conservatism -- Harmony for the Nation, De-civilization for the Enemies -- 2010s-2020s: The Old-New Anti-imperialism -- The Genocide of the Christians, Turkey 1894-1924 -- Since the Centennial: New Departures in the Scholarship on the Armenian Genocide, 2015-2021 -- Understanding the Armenian Genocide Before the Centennial -- The Architect of the Genocide: Talaat Paşa -- Religion and Genocide -- Dispossession, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocide -- The Primitive Accummulation of Capital and Genocide -- Forgetting and Remembering -- Index.