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Record Nr.

UNISA996418937103316

Autore

Savelsberg Joachim J. <1951-, >

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, : University of California Press, 2021

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-520-38019-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

956.6/20154

Soggetti

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923

Genocide - Sociological aspects

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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



Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956566903321

Titolo

The islands of the Eastern Mediterranean : a history of cross-cultural encounters / / edited by Ozlem Caykent, and Luca Zavagno

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2014

ISBN

9780755608331

075560833X

9780857737397

0857737392

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

International library of ethnicity, identity and culture

Disciplina

909.09822

909.096384

Soggetti

General & world history

Islands of the Mediterranean History

Mediterranean Region History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Contributions -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Ottoman Caesar: Mehmed II's Strategies of Possession, 1453-1481



-- 3. Security or Glory? Some Sixteenth-Century Views on the Necessity of Conquering Rhodes -- 4. The Clash of Rum and Frenk: Orthodox-Catholic Interactions on the Aegean Islands in the Mid-Seventeenth to Mid-Eighteenth Centuries and their Impact in the Ottoman Capital -- 5. Challenging Authority and Transforming Politics: A New Perspective on the Muslim and Non-Muslim Experiences in Ottoman Crete, 1896-97 -- 6. The Minoans, the Ottomans and the British: The Eastern Mediterranean as an Imperial Space -- 7. The Wonderful Adventures of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Einar Gjerstad, Erik Sjoqvist, the Swedish Institute in Rome and the Cyprus Expedition -- 8. Looting and Losing the Archaeological Heritage of Cyprus -- 9. The Sea that Binds Us: the EU's Problematic Normative Capacity and the Union for the Mediterranean.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Mediterranean, or 'Middle Sea', has long been regarded as the symbolic centre of European civilization. The binding water between Turkey, the Middle East, the trading communities of North Africa, and the European powerhouses Italy, France and Greece, a history of this sea is a new and vital way of understanding the history of the societies which have flourished in the region. The Islands of the Eastern Mediterranean charts the story of the water as both connector and border, and analyses the islands role in world history. Covering Mehmed II's efforts to conquer the old Roman Empire, through to the claims of Rhodes and the role of the Aegean Islands in Ottoman international relations, to the British in Cyprus and the present-day tensions, this book's interconnected essays from leading scholars form a tapestry of knowledge. Together, they represent a new frontier in the way in which we look at sea histories. This will become essential reading for scholars of History, International Relations, Trade and Migration--Bloomsbury Publishing."