ABSTRACT
The study of genocide has been appropriate in emphasizing the centrality of the Holocaust; yet, other preceding episodes of mass violence are of great significance. Taking a transnational and transhistorical approach, this volume redresses and replaces the silencing of the Armenian Genocide.
Scholarship relating to the history of denial, comparative approaches in the deportations and killings of Greeks and Armenians during the First World War, and women’s histories during the genocide and post-genocide proliferated during the centennial of the Armenian Genocide in 2015. Collectively, however, these studies have not been enough to offer a comprehensive account of the historical record, documentation, and interpretation of events during 1915-1916. This study seeks to bridge the gap, by unsettling nationalist narratives and addressing areas such as aesthetics, gender, and sexuality. By bringing forward various dimensions of the human experience, including the political, socioeconomic, cultural, social, gendered, and legal contexts within which such silencing occurred, the essays address the methodological silences and processes of selectivity and exclusion in scholarship on the Armenian Genocide.
The interdisciplinary approach makes Critical Approaches to Genocide a useful resource for all students and scholars interested in the Armenian Genocide and memory studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|56 pages
New Methodologies and Directions in Armenian and Genocide Studies
chapter 4|16 pages
A Survivor of the Armenian Genocide as a Perpetrator of the Holocaust
part II|60 pages
Repertoires of Violence and Demographic Engineering
part III|58 pages
Aesthetics, Linguistic Pluralism and Memory
chapter 10|23 pages
Between Communication and Miscommunication
part IV|50 pages
Gender and Sexuality
part V|34 pages
Higher Education and Genocide Commemorations in Contemporary Turkey
chapter 16|21 pages
Commemorating the Armenian Genocide
part VI|4 pages
Afterword: Fatma Müge Göçek