Critical Approaches to Genocide

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.

Part 1: New Methodologies and Directions in Armenian and Genocide Studies 1. Armenian Genocide Studies: Development as a Field, Historiographic Appraisal and The Road Ahead 2. Eastern Turkey: The Known, The Unknown, The Disputed and The Desired 3. Time and Space Problematic in Studying Genocide: The Armenian Case 4. A Survivor of the Armenian Genocide as a perpetrator of the Holocaust: The Case of Eghia Hovhanessian Part 2: Repertoires of Violence and Demographic Engineering 5. Transmitting Ottomanism: Revolution, Diaspora, and the Legacies of Imperial Reform 6. Toward a more holistic history of demographic engineering in the Late Ottoman Empire: Possibilities for a New History? 7. The Multiple Narratives of the Assyrian Genocide 8. Colonial Pragmatism and Population Transfer: German perception of ethnic violence during the First World War and the Armenian Genocide 9. Challenges of Humanism: Johannes Lepsius (1858-1926) Part 3: Aesthetics, Linguistic Pluralism and Memory 10. Another Pluralism: Reading Dostoevsky across The Sea of Marmara 11. Between Communication and Miscommunication: An Essay on the Role and Representation of Language in Survivor Testimonies 12. Storation: A Small Guide to Undoing Restoration Part 4: Gender and Sexuality 13. Finding Place in Exile: Queer Armenian Voices Speak 14. The Space between Us: Feminist Conversations on Genocide, Survival and Gender Part 5: Higher Education and Genocide Commemorations in Contemporary Turkey 15. Tosun Terzioglu's Speech on the Groundbreaking Conference in 2005 16. Skeletons in the Turkish Closet: Remembering the Armenian Genocide 17. Commemorating the Armenian Genocide: Spatial Politics of Memory in Post-Imperial Istanbul Part 6: Afterword