Knowing about genocide : Armenian suffering and epistemic struggles /
How do victim and perpetrator peoples 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 silenci...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2021]
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| Summary: | How do victim and perpetrator peoples 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 244 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520380189 0520380185 |