Knowing about Genocide : Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles Klappentext: 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis: Frontmatter Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Preface: Purpose Author and Acknowledgments Introduction: Epistemic Circle and History of the Armenian Genocide PART I Interaction and Micropolitics of Genocide Knowledge 1 Social Interaction Self Reflection and Struggles over Genocide Knowledge 2 Diaries and Bearing Witness in the Humanitarian Field Part II. SEDIMENTATION: CARRIER GROUPS AND KNOWLEDGE ENTREPRENEURS 3 Carriers Entrepreneurs and Epistemic Power a Conceptual Toolbox toward an Understanding of Genocide Knowledge 4 Sedimentation and Mutations of Armenian Knowledge about the Genocide 5 Sedimentation of Turkish Knowledge about the Genocide and Comparisons PART III Rituals Epistemic Power and Conflict over Genocide Knowledge 6 Affirming Genocide Knowledge through Rituals 7 Epistemic Struggles in the Political Field Mobilization and Legislation in France 8 Epistemic Struggles in the Legal Field Speech Rights Memory and Genocide Curricula before an American Court 9 Denialism in an Age of Human Rights Hegemony Conclusions: Closing the Epistemic Circle and Future Struggles NOTES REFERENCES INDEX