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Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century
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Throughout the twenty-first century, genocide denial has evolved and adapted with new strategies to augment and complement established modes of denial. In addition to outright negation, denial of genocide encompasses a range of techniques, including disputes over numbers, contestation of legal definitions, blaming the victim, and various modes of intimidation, such as threats of legal action. Arguably the most effective strategy has been denial through the purposeful creation of misinformation. Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century brings together leading scholars from across disciplines to add to the body of genocide scholarship that is challenged by denialist literature. By concentrating on factors such as the role of communications and news media, global and national social networks, the weaponization of information by authoritarian regimes and political parties, court cases in the United States and Europe, freedom of speech, and postmodernist thought, this volume discusses how genocide denial is becoming a fact of daily life in the twenty-first century.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Denial of Genocide of Indigenous People in the United States
- 2. Armenian Genocide and Its Denial
- 3. Weaponizing the First Amendment
- 4. Coalition Politics and Parliamentary Paralysis
- 5. Denying the Shoah
- 6. Aversions to Acknowledging the Khmer Rouge Genocides in Cambodia, 1990â2021
- 7. Denial of the Guatemalan Genocide, 1981â2020
- 8. Regional Political Implications of Bosnian Genocide Denial
- 9. Mainstreaming the Denial of the Genocide against the Tutsi
- 10. A Multifront War of Narratives
- Epilogue
- Contributors
- Index
- About Bedross Der Matossian