Legislating Reality and Politicizing History: Contextualizing Armenian Claims of Genocide

Name: Legislating Reality and Politicizing History: Contextualizing Armenian Claims of Genocide
Brand: Manzara Verlag
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By Cannon, Brendon J.

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*Legislating Reality and Politicizing History: Contextualizing Armenian Claims of Genocide* is the first in-depth study of Armenian and Armenian Diaspora identity viewed via the prism of a historical trauma. Though numerous attempts to define a larger Armenian identity through history, language and/or religion have been performed, no major study has demonstrated the centrality of the events of 1915 to this identity and the formation of Self and Other. The book demonstrates how the Armenian campaign to have the events of 1915 recognized as the Armenian Genocide, flawed and racist as the campaign may be, remains the single bond possessing enough strength to bind the otherwise linguistic, geographically and religiously diverse Armenian Diaspora communities together. Utilizing a quantitative and comparative approach, peppered with International Relations theory and the political economy of lobbying (niche theory), this book demonstrates the pervasiveness and political power of the re-imagined trauma of 1915 to Armenian large group identity. This identity, divorced by time and space from historical realities, relies on efforts to gain *ad hoc* legislation through the politicization of history in order to convince the world of what Armenians refer to as the Armenian Genocide. This groundbreaking book argues that these political actions as well as the powerful identity narrative underpinning these actions is significant for several reasons. One, this emotive issue and the campaign it has spawned directly affects the future of multiple nation-states (Turkey and Armenia, in particular) as well as a non-state entity, the powerful Armenian diaspora. Two, the campaign regarding which semantics to use in referencing century-old events increasingly dominates international relations between Turkey and the West.

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 401
Release Date:: 2016-08-27
Publication Date:: 2016-08-27
Publisher:: Manzara Verlag
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 3939795674
Weight:: 642 g

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