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By Brendon J. Cannon,Michael Gunter

A stirring critique of the Armenian campaign

Legislating truth and Politicizing heritage: Contextualizing Armenian Claims of Genocide is the 1st in-depth examine of Armenian and Armenian Diaspora id seen through the prism of a historic trauma. although quite a few makes an attempt to outline a bigger Armenian identification via background, language and/or faith were played, no significant examine has proven the centrality of the occasions of 1915 to this identification and the formation of Self and different. The e-book demonstrates how the Armenian crusade to have the occasions of 1915 famous because the Armenian Genocide, fallacious and racist because the crusade should be, is still the only bond owning sufficient energy to bind the in a different way linguistic, geographically and religiously assorted Armenian Diaspora groups together.

Utilizing a quantitative and comparative process, peppered with diplomacy idea and the political economic system of lobbying (niche theory), this e-book demonstrates the pervasiveness and political energy of the re-imagined trauma of 1915 to Armenian huge workforce id. This identification, divorced through time and house from old realities, is determined by efforts to achieve advert hoc laws throughout the politicization of historical past as a way to persuade the area of what Armenians check with because the Armenian Genocide.

This groundbreaking publication argues that those political activities in addition to the strong identification narrative underpinning those activities is important for numerous purposes. One, this emotive factor and the crusade it has spawned at once impacts the way forward for a number of realms (Turkey and Armenia, specifically) in addition to a non-state entity, the robust Armenian diaspora. , the crusade relating to which semantics to take advantage of in referencing century-old occasions more and more dominates diplomacy among Turkey and the West.

Three, by way of deconstructing the position the trauma of 1915 performs within the improvement and fecundity of Armenian huge workforce id, in addition to its transmission from new release to iteration, an realizing of the search to legislate truth in the course of the politicization of background is received. that's, century-old photographs and caricatures, usually racist and bearing no dating to present-day realities, underpin the crusade (the bad Turk, anti-Muslim sentiments) and nonetheless hold weight - not just for Armenians yet a lot of the West and Russia.

This has normative implications and this e-book demonstrates how Armenian id, which drives and informs the Armenian diaspora’s crusade of Armenian genocide, attractiveness actively undermines the stern felony definition and accordingly legitimacy that's the United countries Genocide conference of 1948. this is often performed during the wanton software of time period “genocide” to the occasions of 1915, which undercuts verified definitions and norms and hence permits and encourages the fairly elastic use of the time period for political achieve. This extra undermines the symbolic weight and gear of the UN conference and thereby complicating the courts skill to punish genocide perpetrators.

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