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DENIAL OF VIOLENCE
OTTOMAN PAST, TURKISH PRESENT, AND COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE ARMENIANS, 1789-2009 |
| By: |
Fatma Muge Gocek |
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Hardback |
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£65.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
019933420X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199334209 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
3 November, 2014 |
| Pages: |
680 |
| Description: |
Denial of Violence seeks to decipher the roots of the denial by Turkish and Ottoman officials of acts of violence committed against Armenians. Based on a qualitative analysis of over 300 memoirs published in Turkey from 1789 to 2009, Fatma Muge Gocek analyzes denial as a multilayered process that starts with the advent of systematic modernity in the Ottoman Empire in 1789 and continues to this day in the Turkish Republic. |
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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 Muge Gocek seeks to decipher the roots of this disavowal. To capture the negotiation of meaning that leads to denial, Gocek 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 Arm |
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US |
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Oxford University Press Inc |
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Winner of Winner of the 2015 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book: Sociology of |
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