Documenting the Armenian Genocide: Essays in Honor of Taner Akçam (Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide)

Praise for Documenting the Armenian Genocide
Contents
List of Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction
	The Life of a Scholar Activist
	Taner Akçam and Armenian Genocide Studies
	Essays Honoring Taner Akçam
Taner Akçam, Istanbul, My Bridge
	Istanbul, My Bridge
The Victims of “Safety”: The Destiny of Armenian Women and Girls Who Were Not Deported from Trabzon
	Introduction
	The Official Decree of the Deportation and Assurances of “Safety”
	Female Witnesses of the Trabzon Trial
	Conclusion
Cohabitating in Captivity: Vartouhie Calantar Nalbandian (Zarevand) at the Women’s Section of Istanbul’s Central Prison (1915–1918)
	Early Years
	Arrest and Military Tribunal
	The Ward World of a “Political Mademoiselle”
		An Autoethnographer Behind the Bars
		Fellow Inmates: Friend or Foe?
		Sisters of Misfortune
	Armenian Women’s Prison Memoirs in Comparison
	Vartouhie Calantar’s Later Life in America
Mediatized Witnessing, Spectacles of Pain, and Reenacting Suffering: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarian Cinema
	Introduction
	Testimony, Truth-Claims, and Technologies of Witnessing
	Suffering Bodies, Spectacles of Pain, and Marketing of Agony
		Gendered Violence, Martyrdom, Slavery
		Encounters with “Non-Children” and NER’s Doors to Heaven
	Reenactment as Resuffering
		An Embodied Representation of the Genocide
		Being Saved to Serve
	Conclusion
“Special Kind of Refugees”: Assisting Armenians in Erzincan, Bayburt, and Erzurum
	The War on the Caucasus Front and the Armenians
	Assisting Refugees
	“Special” Category of Refugees in Bayburt and Erzincan
	Challenges of the Relief Work
		Erzincan
		Bayburt
		Erzurum
	Conclusion
On the Verge of Death and Survival: Krikor Bogharian’s Diary
	Deportations in Aintab
	Krikor Bogharian in Exile and His Diary: Conditions of Deportees
	Starvation, Epidemics and Sexual Abuse
	Forced Conversion
	Conclusion
Categories and Their Interstices: The Armenian Genocide Beyond Resistance and Accommodation
	Collaborators
	Resisters
	Interstitials
	Conclusion
The Property Law and the Spoliation of Ottoman Armenians
	“National Assets”
	Private Assets
	The Constitutional Period (1908–1914)
	The Great War and the Spoliation of Armenian Assets
	In the Wake of the Armistice: Restitution or Absorption of Armenian Assets
Refocusing on—Crimes Against—Humanity
	Refocusing on Humankind and Crimes Against Humanity
	Conceiving Genocide
	Religious Prefiguration
	Social Contract: Agreeing on Individual Dignity, Common Good and Vital Interests
	Conclusion
Taner Akçam as Scholar-Activist and Armenian-Turkish Relations
The Margins of Academia or Challenging the Official Ideology
	Anti-imperialism as Anti-Christian Discourse
	Class Struggles, and Struggles Among the Nations
	Kemalism, Revolution, Nationalism, and Conservatism
	Harmony for the Nation, De-civilization for the Enemies
	2010s–2020s: The Old-New Anti-imperialism
The Genocide of the Christians, Turkey 1894–1924
Since the Centennial: New Departures in the Scholarship on the Armenian Genocide, 2015–2021
	Understanding the Armenian Genocide Before the Centennial
	The Architect of the Genocide: Talaat Paşa
	Religion and Genocide
	Dispossession, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocide
	The Primitive Accummulation of Capital and Genocide
	Forgetting and Remembering
Index