Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Contributors
Introduction
	Defining "genocide"
	A brief history of genocide denial
	Why denial must be combatted
	Chapter sequence and themes
	Notes
1. Is denial the final stage of genocide? Consolidation, the metaphysics of denial, and the supersession of stage theory
	Rhetoric and reality
	The rhetorical turn
	Consolidation
	Exit stage theory
	Implications
	Notes
Part I: Commemoration and memory cultures in contemporary societies
2. Holodomor and Holocaust memory in competition and cooperation
	The history of trauma in twentieth century Ukraine
	Conflicts over genocide memory in contemporary Ukraine
	The conflict in context
	Cooperation among survivor groups in Ukraine
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Publications
		Online sources
3. For an anthropological approach to denial: Social bonds, pathophobia, and the Duvalier regime in Haiti
	"A brilliant man ... a loving man ... a man of integrity"
	Denial as moral discourse
	The price of belonging
	Pathophobia
	Animistic denials: Victimhood as an ontology
	Anthropology and denial
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Publications
		Online sources
4. The Soviet denial of murdered Jews' identity during and after the Great Patriotic War
	Molotov's first diplomatic note, establishment of the UN, and Soviet extraordinary commissions to investigate war crimes
	Red Army "Special Flying" detachments
	The Red Army liberates the extermination camps
	Postwar denials of Jewish victimhood
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Archival sources
		Publications
5. Commemorating colonial violence from the Dutch golden age: New Netherland and Coen's conquest of the Banda Islands in Dutch memory cultures
	New Netherland memory culture before 2009
	New Netherland memory culture from 2009 to 2017
	Dutch memory culture of Coen and the Banda Islands
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Publications
		Online sources
Part II: State-sanctioned and politicized forms of denial
6. Triumphalism: The final stage of the Bosnian genocide
	Celebrating "ethnic cleansing"
	Triumphalism unleashed
	Triumphalism in popular music
	Erasing history, celebrating genocide through memorials
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Publications
		Online sources
7. The Bosnian genocide and the "Continuum of Denial"
	Phase I: Denial by dehumanization
		Ideology of dehumanization in Bosnia
		Development of individual accounts
	Phase II: Emergent denial
		Verbal denial strategies
		Planning to deny genocide
		Authorization
		Physical acts of denial
	Phase III: Bounded denial
	Phase IV: Interpretive denial
	Phase V: Embedded denial
		Glorification
		De-memorialization
		Institutionalized denial
	Phase VI: Forgetting as denial
	Conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Publications
		Online sources
		Documents from the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
8. Beyond erasure: Indigenous genocide denial and settler colonialism
	Calling things by their correct names
	Denial through discourse and education
	Cultural appropriation
	Tribal nation recognition
	Missing and murdered indigenous women and girls
	Conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Publications
		Online Sources
9. Denying Rwanda, denying Congo
	Denying Rwanda
	The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)
	Denying Congo
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Publications
		Online Sources
Part III: New directions in analyzing and countering denial
10. Music as a means to combat genocide denial and assert Armenian identity
	Identity and genocide denial
	Music, memory, and denial
	Music and the Armenian genocide
	Genocide in Armenian folk music
		Dle Yaman
		Adanayi Voghby (The Mourning for Adana)
		Qele Lao (Let's Go Son)
		Hasnink Sasun (We Will Reach Sasun)
	Genocide in modern Armenian music
	International audiences and the music of the Armenian genocide
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Online sources
11. The forgotten murders: Gendercide in the twenty-first century and the destruction of the transgender body
	Terminology
	Introduction
	Reproduction and transphobic violence
	Generative assaults on the transgender body
	Conversion rituals
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Publications
		Online Sources
12. Collective historical trauma and retelling the past: Toward trauma-informed transitional justice praxis
	What is collective historical trauma?
	"Post-conflict," overcoming of fear, and grounding transitional justice in the lens of conflict transformation
	Case one: Agitating caste transformation in India through trauma-informed transitional justice, storytelling, and public testimony
	Case two: The response to mass violence and the state's attempts to scale local justice in Rwanda
	Conclusions: Ways forward for trauma-informed transitional justice and genocide recognition
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Publications
		Online Sources
Index