The United States and the (Non-)Recognition of the Armenian Genocide

Zarifian, Julien

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“…It becomes a triple promise, despite impediments resulting from assimilative pressure and internal tensions (Panossian 2006), when ethnicity overlaps with a specific religious identity, as is the case for substantial parts of the Armenian community. 5 Recent studies by Julien Zarifian (2014) and Ben Alexander ( 2007) indeed highlight the central role of ethnic organizations for Armenian diasporic life and knowledge held by Armenians in the United States beginning in the early twentieth century. Local party headquarters served as social clubs for members, and each major organization published its own newspaper.…”

Section: Ethnic Organizations As Carriers: An American Illustrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At the federal level, successes include budgetary allocations to Armenia, the blocking of the nomination of a potentially hostile ambassador, and recognition of the genocide by the U.S. Congress in 2020, during a time of heightened tensions between Turkey and the United States. As of this writing, however, no presidential administration has ever recognized the genocide; this is attributable to American political and military ties to Turkey-a NATO ally in the volatile Middle East-in combination with Turkey's continued staunch denial of the genocide (Zarifian 2018).…”

Section: Ethnic Organizations As Carriers: An American Illustrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Turkish engagement against genocide claims had intensified in the 1970s, partially in response to the first modern historical studies by Armenian American scholars such as Richard Hovannisian (2002) and V. N. Dadrian (2002) and the consideration by Congress of recognizing the Armenian genocide (Zarifian 2014(Zarifian , 2018. In 1975, Turkey hired the public relations firm Manning Selvage & Lee, and later it hired additional firms, including Hill & Knowlton (which had earlier served the tobacco industry against claims that smoking constituted a health risk) (Mamigonian 2015).…”

Section: Free Speech Claims and Historical Responsibility In Courtmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Violent repression is obviously one strategy for keeping opposing knowledge at bay. Zarifian (2014Zarifian ( , 2018. On years of recognition, see Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide_recognition (last viewed June 21, 2020).…”

Section: Closing the Epistemic Circle And Future Strugglesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China

Kipnis

2021

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In rural China funerals are conducted locally, on village land by village elders. But in urban areas, people have neither land for burials nor elder relatives to conduct funerals. Chinese urbanization, which has increased drastically in recent decades, involves the creation of cemeteries, state-run funeral homes, and small private funerary businesses. The Funeral of Mr. Wang examines social change in urbanizing China through the lens of funerals, the funerary industry, and practices of memorialization. It analyzes changes in family life, patterns of urban sociality, transformations in economic relations, the politics of memorialization, and the echoes of these changes in beliefs about the dead and ghosts.

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Section: Ethnic Organizations As Carriers: An American Illustrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ethnic Organizations As Carriers: An American Illustrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Free Speech Claims and Historical Responsibility In Courtmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Closing the Epistemic Circle And Future Strugglesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China

Kipnis

2021

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“…By understanding the collaborative and mediation efforts of Riksarkivet despite the Turkish pressure we see that Norwegian refusal to recognize the Genocide is neither deep-rooted nor ideological as it is in the case of Turkey. 74 Riksarkivet's position would not have been possible without the consent of the Ministry of Culture. Lange's work and the work of current archivist Per Kristian Ottersland are contained within the institutional space that is the National Archive of Norway, which exists within the larger narrative and politics of the nation state.…”

Section: Silences and The National Frame Of Referencementioning

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Documenting the Armenian Genocide in Norway: the role of a National Archive in the social life of a collection

Qvortrup

2020

Archives and Records

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This paper applies the methodological premise of the 'social life of things' to give insight into the context and movements of a collection of records found at the Norwegian National Archive, that contribute to the documentation of the Armenian Genocide. A study of the life of this collection tells the story of Norwegian missionaries in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, their witnessing of the Genocide and the subsequent activations of the records. It explores the use and impact of these records in Norway, which have led to international collaborations for the historical memory of Armenia and acknowledgement of the Genocide, taking a different political stand to that of the Norwegian government. Nevertheless, silences have been encoded in the making of the archives, the making of narratives, and at the moment of retrospective significance. It highlights the circumscribing predominance of national narratives to documents and raises questions about the silences in other missionary archives in Norway.

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America’s Turkish Lobby against Armenian Genocide Recognition

Currie,

Aslan

2023

Iran Cauc.

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While much ink has been spilled on the Armenian-American Lobby’s efforts to achieve the formal recognition of the tragic events in Anatolia of 1915–1918 as a Genocide, little is known about how the Turkish Lobby sought to prevent such recognition. This article is the first in the literature to offer a systematic account of how the Turkish Lobby advocated in the United States to prevent the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

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The United States and the (Non-)Recognition of the Armenian Genocide

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China

The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China

Documenting the Armenian Genocide in Norway: the role of a National Archive in the social life of a collection

America’s Turkish Lobby against Armenian Genocide Recognition

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