ABSTRACT
The naming and framing of genocide limits and constrains how it is then responded to, while concealing broader political and ethical narratives. In this, the notion of representation is thrown into crisis as we filter and dredge, archiving genocide quantitatively and definitionally, placing discursive limits around the event, confining and reducing the language with which genocide can be approached. While, historically, genocide is omnipresent, the twentieth century had the highest number of genocides in widely recorded history. Before Lemkin's arrival at the term 'genocide' and the development of the Genocide Convention, what we now call genocide had been informally acknowledged through the umbrella title 'crime against humanity'; it was referred to as such at the Nuremberg Tribunal. The fundamental problem of language lies at the heart of the framing of the archive. In archiving trauma, untranslatibility and unshareability are also pronounced.
