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Category Archives: Genocide
Author Philip Gourevitch
In May 1995 a thirty-three-year-old American freelancer steps through a massacre site in Rwanda and his foot comes down on a skull. The dead lie so thick on the ground that he cannot avoid them. The killing ended almost a … Continue reading
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The Competitive Construction of Jewish Suffering: Cultural Trauma as a Market in Moral Meaning
Jeffrey Alexander argues that cultural trauma is never the automatic social consequence of terrible events. It is a competitive achievement. Carrier groups identify an injury, narrative entrepreneurs code it as evil, weight its significance against other claims on collective attention, … Continue reading
The Suffering Olympics: Hierarchy, Gatekeeping, and the Competitive Construction of Victimhood
Jeffrey Alexander’s theory of cultural trauma predicts that the successful construction of an event as the paradigmatic moral catastrophe of an era does not simply establish that event’s moral authority. It reorganizes the entire field of moral claim-making around the … Continue reading
The Performance of Suffering: Wiesel, Levi, and the Market for Holocaust Testimony
Sociologist Jeffrey Alexander argues in “Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma” that trauma is a cultural achievement. Events become collective traumas when carrier groups successfully construct a narrative that defines the nature of the suffering, identifies the victims, assigns responsibility, … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Power in Genocide Studies
Genocide Studies does not present itself as a field competing for power. It presents itself as a moral and scholarly enterprise devoted to understanding mass violence and preventing its recurrence. This is often sincere. It is also structured competition. As … Continue reading
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The Power Of Rhetoric Vs The Power Of Situation
RR posts: “Let us accept, as you have compellingly argued , that the Nazis had no significant transformative influence upon anyone not already inclined toward their message. And so the success of Nazi propaganda in enabling their genocide lied in … Continue reading
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Schindler’s Fate: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Population Transfers
Academic Robert M. Hayden writes in 1996: In 1934, as the guarantees of the minority treaties of the Versailles settlement proved utterly illusory and as Hitler consolidated power in Germany, C. A. Macartney, the secretary to the Minorities Committee of … Continue reading
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Are South Africa’s White Farmers Facing Genocide?
MP3 Google suggested these stories on South African white farmers: * New York Times: Trump Cites False Claims of Widespread Attacks on White Farmers in South Africa Mr. Trump’s comment came after the Fox News host Tucker Carlson presented a … Continue reading
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They’ll Explain When They’re Done
Don’t pay too much attention to which white nationalists (WNs) are for mass genocide and which are for expatriation and which are for incentives and separate homelands. They’ll explain when they’re done, when they’ve created their homogeneous white homelands and … Continue reading
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Who killed the Armenians? Muslims
Dennis Prager writes: The Journal’s editor-in-chief, Rob Eshman, recently wrote a column under the headline “Morgenthau’s Children,” about the film “The Promise,” whose subject is the Armenian genocide, and he addressed the subject of genocide in general. It was important … Continue reading