Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, Memory

Alexander Laban Hinton, Thomas La Pointe, Douglas Irvin-Erickson

Rutgers University Press, Dec 18, 2013 - Political Science - 230 pages

Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained out of sight in the media, such as those against the Circassians, Greeks, Assyrians, the indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia, and the violence that was the precursor to and the aftermath of the Holocaust.

The contributors to this collection look at these cases and others from a variety of perspectives. These essays cover the extent to which our biases, our ways of knowing, our patterns of definition, our assumptions about truth, and our processes of remembering and forgetting as well as the characteristics of generational transmission, the structures of power and state ideology, and diaspora have played a role in hiding some events and not others. Noteworthy among the collection’s coverage is whether the trade in African slaves was a form of genocide and a discussion not only of Hutus brutalizing Tutsi victims in Rwanda, but of the execution of moderate Hutus as well.

Hidden Genocides is a significant contribution in terms of both descriptive narratives and interpretations to the emerging subfield of critical genocide studies.

Contributors: Daniel Feierstein, Donna-Lee Frieze, Krista Hegburg, Alexander Laban Hinton, Adam Jones, A. Dirk Moses, Chris M. Nunpa, Walter Richmond, Hannibal Travis, and Elisa von Joeden-Forgey

What people are saying

User Review -

powerful and to true as to 'policy' of current Canadian and U.S. politicians. Genocide and denial of existance are same thing. "I do not recognize that you exist and so you do not". the continuation of patriarchal whiteness supremecy is alive and dominant in alleged Democracy's.
We have to ask 'Why was it that only the U.S. and the Dominion of Canada the ONLY 2 countries that refused to sign onto League of Nations Crimes against Humanity until a clevet was added that stated long term plans for genocide and crimes against humanity had to be proven 'by intention and omissions' and not by the actual acts or conduct.
Welcome to the ongoing 'hidden' genocide of Indigenous Peoples, Clans, and Soverign Nations a genocide that has murdered more persons than all other genocides added together.
We are the fastest largest growing population of N.A. but according to the panamixia 'colonial governments' WE do not exist.  

Contents

• Power Knowledge Memory: 1
• Genocide and Ways of Knowing: 19
• Power Resistance and Edges of the State: 81
• Forgetting Remembering and Hidden Genocides: 127
• Contributors: 209
• Index: 213

About the author

ALEXANDER LABAN HINTON is the director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and a professor of anthropology and global affairs at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the author of the award-winning Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide and six edited collections.

THOMAS LA POINTE is a member of the Center for Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation and an assistant professor of literature and composition at Bergen Community College. He has taught at the Shanghai International Studies University, China, and served as a journalist at the Institute for Central American Studies, Costa Rica.

DOUGLAS IRVIN-ERICKSON is an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights at Rutgers University, Newark.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, Memory; Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
• Editors: Alexander Laban Hinton, Thomas La Pointe, Douglas Irvin-Erickson
• Contributors: Alexander Laban Hinton, A. Dirk Moses, Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, Daniel Feierstein, Donna-Lee Frieze, Mato Nunpa, Walter Richmond, Adam Jones, Hannibal Travis, Krista Hegburg
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0813561647, 9780813561646
• Length: 230 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / Human Rights