Hidden genocides : power, knowledge, memory / edited by Alexander Laban Hinton, Thomas LaPointe, and Douglas Irvin-Erickson.

"Why are some cases of genocide prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? In this collection, contributors approach the question from a variety of perspectives and case studies, including the suppression of discussion about indigenous populations in the Americas and Au...

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Main Author: Hinton, Alexander Laban (Author, Editor)
Other Authors: Irvin-Erickson, Douglas, 1982- (Editor), LaPointe, Thomas, 1962- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Series:Genocide, political violence, human rights series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part One: Genocide and Ways of Knowing
  • 1. Does the Holocaust Reveal or Conceal Other Genocides?: The Canadian Museum for Human Rightsand Grievable Suffering
  • 2. Hidden in Plain Sight: Atrocity Concealment in German Political Culture before the First World War
  • 3. Beyond the Binary Model: National Security Doctrine in Argentina as a Way of Rethinking Genocide as a Social Practice
  • Part Two: Power, Resistance, and Edges of the State
  • 4. "Simply Bred Out": Genocide and the Ethical in the Stolen Generations
  • 5. Historical Amnesia: The "Hidden Genocide" and Destruction of the Indigenous Peoples of the United States
  • 6. Circassia: A Small Nation Lost to the Great Game
  • Part Three: Forgetting, Remembering, and Hidden Genocides
  • 7. The Great Lakes Genocides: Hidden Histories, Hidden Precedents
  • 8. Genocide and the Politics of Memory in Cambodia
  • 9. Constructing the"Armenian Genocide": How Scholars Unremembered the Assyrian and Greek Genocides in the Ottoman Empire
  • 10. "The Law Is Such as It Is": Reparations, "Historical Reality," and the Legal Order in the Czech Republic.