While much of the international community regards the forced
deportation of Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire in 1915, where
approximately 800,000 to 1.5 million Armenians perished, as genocide,
the Turkish state still officially denies it. In _Denial of Violence_,
Fatma M?ge G??ek seeks to decipher the roots of this disavowal. To
capture the negotiation of meaning that leads to denial, G??ek
undertook a qualitative analysis of 315 memoirs published in Turkey
from 1789 to 2009 in addition to numerous secondary sources, journals,
and newspapers. She argues that denial is a multi-layered, historical
process with four distinct yet overlapping components: the structural
elements of collective violence and situated modernity on one side,
and the emotional elements of collective emotions and legitimating
events on the other. In the Turkish case, denial emerged through four
stages: (i) the initial imperial denial of the origins of the
collective violence committed against the Armenians commenced in 1789
and continued until 1907; (ii) the Young Turk denial of the act of
violence lasted for a decade from 1908 to 1918; (iii) early republican
denial of the actors of violence took place from 1919 to 1973; and
(iv) the late republican denial of the responsibility for the
collective violence started in 1974 and continues today. _Denial of
Violence_ develops a novel theoretical, historical and methodological
framework to understanding what happened and why the denial of
collective violence against Armenians still persists within Turkish
state and society.
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9780199334216
Publisert
2020
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Oxford University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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