Asian Trips - Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide
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Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.62015
EAN: 9780814327777
ISBN: 081432777X
Label: Wayne State University Press
Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 328
Publication Date: 1999-03
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Studio: Wayne State University Press
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The Armenian Genocide that began in World War I, during the drive to transform the plural Ottoman Empire into a monoethnic Turkey, removed a people from its homeland and erased most evidence of their three-thousand-year-old material and spiritual culture. For the rest of this century, changing world events, calculated silence, and active suppression of memory have overshadowed the initial global outrage and have threatened to make this calamity "the forgotten genocide" of world history. This volume squarely confronts the denial of the Armenian Genocide by the Turkish government, which has expended considerable political and financial resources to repress the facts surrounding this event and even enlisted American and European pseudo-academics to rationalize the issue. Fourteen leading scholars from the United States, Canada, France, England, Germany, and Israel here examine the Armenian Genocide from a variety of perspectives to refute those efforts and show how remembrance and denial have shaped perceptions of the event. Many of the chapters draw on archival records and court proceedings to review the precursors and process of the genocide, examine German complicity, and share the responses of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. Other contributions consider the impact of the event on Jews before and during the Holocaust; the role of memoirs, oral histories, and literature; the various manifestations of denial; and the contest between remembrance and denial in the academic arena. Public awareness of this tragic event has now been heightened by studies of both comparative genocide and the Armenian Genocide itself. Remembrance and Denial shows that although rationalization of theArmenian Genocide is far more advanced than denial of the Holocaust, strong similarities exist in the approaches and strategies of the deniers. It seeks redress for eighty years of silence and stakes out a position that will be difficult to deny.
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Summary: Where are they?
Comment: It is constructive to have an open analysis of any controversial topic.
If there was no planned extinction of the Armenians by the Ottoman Turks, where are my father's sister, brother and mother. My father saw them butchered when he was 11 years old. His sister was younger than he. He feigned death and managed to escape alive and eventually come to America. I heard about his experiences first-hand. Is it possible that these children and mother were threats to the Ottomans? I think that the claim of the Armenians as a race being a threat to the Turks was a bit far-fetched. How can that justify murdering mothers and their children?
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Summary: "Genocide?" Got the History wrong
Comment: It just astonished me as how certain discursive formations can actually lead people to believe as the 'real' reality. It does not matter whether for an event to 'really happen' or not. What matters is that you hear it on a radio or read it on a newspaper or website or even talk about it at the water-cooler. Those who have had the chance to watch 'Wag the Dog' might get the idea of how such 'reality' is constructed.
On a more advanced level 'discursivity', a la Foucault, is a building block of a discourse in which certain linkages, here and their, add to what ordinary people believe on the street.
Now obviously Hitler was one of the worst things that happened during the 20th century. This is commonsense. But to add certain 'material' so as to advance another claim by building upon Hitler, is something that should be carefully approached, at least for people who at least visit and read stuff through Amazon.
If a chain in a series of discursive formations can be shown to be weak or invalid than it would be proven that that chain of a discourse is on shaky grounds, and that most of what is known about it is likely to be false.
Unfortunately we see certain 'material' is attached to certain claims so as to resemble the Holocaust. Let us revisit a single claim on part of those would like to exploit the events during the early 20th century. A reviewer, for instance, obviously bought one claim and thus knows it to be the 'truth'
Adolf Hitler: "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"
Now has anybody bothered to investigate it. No, of course. "It sounds like as if it is true, so why not believe it". Well fortunately there are still people who like investigating such stuff.
Read for example :
Heath W. Lowry
Washington, D.C.
Political Communication and Persuasion, Volume 3, Number 2 (1985)
Abstract This article traces the history of a purported Adolf Hitler quote which cites the perecent of the world's lack of reaction to the fate of Armenians during the First World War as a justification for his planned extermination of European Jewry in the course of the Second World War. By a detailed examination of the genesis of this quotation the author demonstrates that there is no historical basis for attributing such a statement to Hitler...
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If one is serious about really getting into history, rather than believing simply what is out their in the popular press,
I would additionally suggest to take a tour of the documents of Ambassador Morgenthau. First let us not take any word for having a Godly truth 'Its ambassador so its gotta be true' mentality is ok if you're ok with it (respect of thought). But there are historical evidence that suggests that Morgenthau did not even know Ottoman scripture, and that this is proved throughout his letters when he attempts to translate 'words' and 'dates' of events. Do not hesitate to read...
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For those who have CAREFULLY read what I have written so far, notice I am not either on one side of the argument between Armenian historians or historians of the Ottoman empire, but that I have just thrown out some thought provoking information so that one will at least ask some questions before believing what they read. Doubtless there will be those occasional pointless replies to this review, but again all I am saying is, think before you react. Now one could argue that I am saying is a postmodernist crituque and historical relativism. That would be false. I believe in historical analysis, as a scientific enterprise (and only the scientific version of it). But then again let us not forget that some American historians who were studying the case at hand were bombed by Armenians. Now if history is written by historians and that some historians (i.e. UCLA professor Stanford Shaw)are bullied so as not to investigate certain historical matters than, at least if you have a capacity to think critically than be suspicious about it. [...]
By the way absolutely nothing is mentioned about the equal ammount of civilian Turks that were slaugthered by Russian backed Armenian militia. Nor anything about the terrorism campaign of Armenians during the 1970's that left thousands of people dead and wounded. To say "denying genocide is a wrong thing" is one thing. But in doing so if one is denying the death of tens of thousands of innocent Turks, is called hypocrism and puts one in ethically shaky grounds.
The latest British governemeents acceptance that the "blue book", which Armenian claims are based upon, have been declared by the government itself to be a WW1 time propaganda material. Yes you heard it right!
Here's another eye opener: Often the claim is made there 1 million Armenians were murdered. What they do not say that the same material they indicate that a "genocide" happened says that
the ENTIRE Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire was 800 thousand (200 thousand difference!) MOREOVER Keep in mind that the Armenian diaspora, that builds its own desire to have a national identity, has a population of more than 9 million people across the world. HOW CAN this be??? Well thats how nationalism is formed: impossibile numbers, man on white horse, the evil "other" etc.... So this "genocide" attitude is more of identity building rather than real history.
Well I hope I contributed on an intellectual level and I hope 'thought thugs' would not misunderstand what I have suggested.
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Summary: Great Intro
Comment: A great introduction for anyone interested in the Armenian Genocide and Comparative Genocide in general as opposed to those paid to engage in state sponsored propaganda.
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Summary: Armenian Genocide
Comment: "Remembrance and denial" is an excellent account of the Armenian Genocide perpetraded by the Turks. The book talks about how the Armenians were looked down upon and hated by the Turks. And how the CUP wanted to eliminate the Armenians (mind you citizens of the Ottoman Empire) forever. Dr. Hovannisian has done a wonderful job accounting for facts on the Armenian genocide, and his book flows very well. He has show once again that the Armenian Genocide is not a hoax conjured up by the Armenian people, but a crime against humanity, for which Turkey, the government, and most of its people still do not take responsibilty for. A must read for anyone interested in the Armenian Genocide.
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Summary: A thorough study on why and how the Genocide is denied.
Comment: Read the book and you will understand why and how the Armenian Genocide continues to be denied by the Turkish government and how important it is to continue the struggle to show the world the truism of the Genocide that started the wave of Genocides in the 20th century. For those who continue to deny or distort the facts, I will not argue. I will simply ask for all reasonable human beings to check the facts, read archived documents and press articles by nations from all over world, and learn for yourself the real history. This book is a great place to start.
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