Knowing about Genocide : : Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles / / Joachim J. Savelsberg.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berkeley, CA : : University of California Press,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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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