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Hidden Genocides is a penetrating scholarly searchlight illuminating an important and previously obscured landscape." -- Frank Chalk * Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University *
"By problematizing, both theoretically and empirically, the canon of genocide studies, this collection makes an important contribution to an underdeveloped field." -- Jens Meierhenrich * London School of Economics and Political Science *
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Hidden Genocides is a timely collection of critical essays that effectively engages scholars in rethinking the way we conceptualize, approach, and teach genocide studies. A must-read for a wide-range of scholars." * Journal of Anthropological Research *
"Hinton, La Pointe, and Irvin-Erickson offer a useful prism through which to examine and weigh conventional accounts of genocide. It reveals cover-ups and makes the invisible visible." * Genocide Studies and Prevention *
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Hidden Genocides collection is an essential guide to the latest scholarship on genocide studies from an international and comparative perspective." * American Hellenic Institute Policy Journal *
"
Hidden Genocides is a penetrating scholarly searchlight illuminating an important and previously obscured landscape." -- Frank Chalk * Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University *
"By problematizing, both theoretically and empirically, the canon of genocide studies, this collection makes an important contribution to an underdeveloped field." -- Jens Meierhenrich * London School of Economics and Political Science *
"
Hidden Genocides is a timely collection of critical essays that effectively engages scholars in rethinking the way we conceptualize, approach, and teach genocide studies. A must-read for a wide-range of scholars." * Journal of Anthropological Research *
"Hinton, La Pointe, and Irvin-Erickson offer a useful prism through which to examine and weigh conventional accounts of genocide. It reveals cover-ups and makes the invisible visible." * Genocide Studies and Prevention *
"
Hidden Genocides collection is an essential guide to the latest scholarship on genocide studies from an international and comparative perspective." * American Hellenic Institute Policy Journal *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, Memory
Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Thomas La Pointe, and Alexander Laban Hinton
Part One: Genocide and Ways of Knowing
1. Does the Holocaust Reveal or Conceal Other Genocides?: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and Grievable Suffering
A. Dirk Moses
2. Hidden in Plain Sight: Atrocity Concealment in German Political Culture before the First World War
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
3. Beyond the Binary Model: National Security Doctrine in Argentina as a Way of Rethinking Genocide as a Social Practice
Daniel Feierstein
Part Two: Power, Resistance, and Edges of the State
4. "Simply Bred Out": Genocide and the Ethical in the Stolen Generations
Donna-Lee Frieze
5. Historical Amnesia: The "Hidden Genocide" and Destruction of the Indigenous Peoples of the United States
Chris Mato Nunpa
6. Circassia: A Small Nation Lost to the Great Game
Walter Richmond
Part Three: Forgetting, Remembering, and Hidden Genocides
7. The Great Lakes Genocides: Hidden Histories, Hidden Precedents
Adam Jones
8. Genocide and the Politics of Memory in Cambodia
Alexander Laban Hinton
9. Constructing the "Armenian Genoicde": How Scholars Unremembered the Assyrian and Greek Genocides in the Ottoman Empire
Hannibal Travis
10. "The Law Is Such as It Is": Reparations, "Historical Reality," and the Legal Order in the Czech Republic
Krista Hegburg
Contributors
Index
