TY - BOOK ID - 85825693 TI - Knowing about Genocide : Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles AU - Savelsberg, Joachim J. AU - Chambers, Brooke B. PY - 2021 SN - 0520380193 0520380185 PB - Oakland University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Armenian massacres, 1915-1923. KW - Genocide KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology. KW - Sociological aspects. KW - Sociology of genocide KW - Sociology KW - Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 KW - Armenian question KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Atrocities KW - Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923. KW - Law & Society UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85825693 AB - A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. How do victims and perpetrators generate conflicting knowledge about genocide? Using a sociology of knowledge approach, Savelsberg answers this question for the Armenian genocide committed in the context of the First World War. Focusing on Armenians and Turks, he examines strategies of silencing, denial, and acknowledgment in everyday interaction, public rituals, law, and politics. Drawing on interviews, ethnographic accounts, documents, and eyewitness testimony, Savelsberg illuminates the social processes that drive dueling versions of history. He reveals counterproductive consequences of denial in an age of human rights hegemony, with implications for populist disinformation campaigns against overwhelming evidence. ER -