The Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism / / Melanie Altanian.

• Superior document: Routledge Studies in Epistemology Series
• VerfasserIn: Altanian, Melanie,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Routledge,, [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge studies in epistemology.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (194 pages)

The injustice of genocide denial is commonly understood as a violation of the dignity of victims, survivors and their descendants, and further described as an assault on truth and memory. This book rethinks the relationship between dignity, truth and memory in relation to genocide denial by adopting the framework of epistemic injustice.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Genocide and genocide denialism -- Chapter 1: On genocide denial -- 1.1 What is "genocide"? -- 1.1.1 Legal definition -- 1.1.2 Conceptual use of "genocide" -- 1.1.3 Intentional destruction -- 1.1.4 The group condition -- 1.1.5 Identification of groups as targets -- 1.2 Denial as a constant feature of genocide -- 1.2.1 Preceding and execution phases -- 1.2.2 Aftermath -- 1.2.2.1 The Right to Justice -- 1.2.2.2 Guarantees of non-recurrence -- 1.2.2.3 Right to reparations -- 1.2.2.4 Right to know -- 1.2.3 Long-term "consolidative" denial -- 1.3 The epistemic perniciousness of genocide denial -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: An epistemology of genocide denialism -- 2.1 Denial and denialism -- 2.1.1 Motivated cognition and rationalization -- 2.1.2 Denialism as a collective achievement -- 2.2 Denialism: epistemology of ignorance and epistemic vices -- 2.2.1 From doxastic state to substantive epistemic practice -- 2.2.2 Active ignorance, epistemic arrogance, and closed-mindedness -- 2.2.3 Nationalist education and the cultivation of epistemic vices -- 2.2.4 Genocide denialism: not non-recognition, but misrecognition -- 2.3 Against the argument from "forgetting" and "amnesia" or: acknowledging different kinds of silence -- Notes -- References -- Part II: The epistemic injustice of genocide denialism -- Chapter 3: The wrong of discriminatory epistemic injustice -- 3.1 Introducing epistemic injustice -- 3.2 Testimonial injustice -- 3.3 Hermeneutical injustice -- 3.4 New concepts and conceptualizations of epistemic injustice(s) -- 3.5 On epistemic domination and oppression -- Notes -- References.

Chapter 4: Genocide denialism, misremembrance, and hermeneutical oppression -- 4.1 The functions and values of (collective) genocide remembrance -- 4.1.1 Genocide remembrance as resistance -- 4.1.2 The moral value of genocide remembrance -- 4.2 Reconstructive memory as complex ethical/epistemological achievement -- 4.2.1 Genocide and/as heritage -- 4.2.2 Remembering responsibly -- 4.3 Genocide misremembrance: wilful hermeneutical ignorance and hermeneutical oppression -- 4.3.1 Conceptual distortions of genocide -- 4.3.2 The concept of "just memory" -- 4.3.3 "Scholarly Humanism": misconceptions about historiographical research -- 4.4 On the mutually reinforcing relationship between testimonial and hermeneutical oppression -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Conversational genocide denial and testimonial oppression -- 5.1 Towards an ethico-epistemology of testimony -- 5.2 Conversational genocide denial and testimonial smothering -- 5.3 Consequences of resisting testimonial smothering -- 5.4 The epistemic harms of testimonial oppression -- 5.5 Individual culpability and responsibility for genocide denial -- Notes -- References -- Concluding remarks -- Index.