Hidden Genocides

Power, Knowledge, Memory
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8135-6163-9
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 328 g

Reihe: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Righ

Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognise the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained out of sight in the media, such as those against the Circassians, Greeks, Assyrians, the indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia, and the violence that was the precursor to and the aftermath of the Holocaust.

The contributors to this collection look at these cases and others from a variety of perspectives. These essays cover the extent to which our biases, our ways of knowing, our patterns of definition, our assumptions about truth, and our processes of remembering and forgetting as well as the characteristics of generational transmission, the structures of power and state ideology, and diaspora have played a role in hiding some events and not others. Noteworthy among the collection’s coverage is whether the trade in African slaves was a form of genocide and a discussion not only of Hutus brutalizing Tutsi victims in Rwanda, but of the execution of moderate Hutus as well.

Hidden Genocides is a significant contribution in terms of both descriptive narratives and interpretations to the emerging subfield of critical genocide studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hinton, Alexander Laban

La Pointe, Thomas

Irvin-Erickson, Douglas

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Laban Hinton is the director of the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights and an associate professor of anthropology and global affairs at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the author of the award-winning Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide and six edited collections.

Thomas La Pointe is a member of the Center for Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation and an assistant professor of literature and composition at Bergen Community College. He has taught at the Shanghai International Studies University, China, and served as a journalist at the Institute for Central American Studies, Costa Rica.

Douglas Irvin-Erickson is an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights at Rutgers University, Newark.