Armenian Genocide Studies: Development as a Field, Historiographic Appraisal, and the Road Ahead
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Published:2023-11-01
Issue:2
Volume:15
Page:99-120
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ISSN:2291-1847
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Container-title:Genocide Studies International
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Genocide Studies International
Affiliation:
1. American University of Armenia
Abstract
This essay is a survey of the field of Armenian Genocide studies, which outlines its academic development over the past sixty years and the conditions of its production. The latter refers to the state-sponsored denial of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey, and to the collusion, or at least acquiescence, of some Middle East studies scholars or organizations with such a denial. The essay assesses the state of the current historiography and the issue of access to the main relevant archival sources. Finally, it points to some of the current debates and gaps in the existing literature, and possibly to the road that lies ahead. 1
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Subject
Law,Political Science and International Relations,Sociology and Political Science
Reference116 articles.
1. Şinasi Orel and Süreyya Yuca, The Talât Pasha Telegrams: Historical Fact or Armenian Fiction? (1986; repr., Nicosia: Rustem, 2007). For a Western denialist treatment of this issue, see Guenter Lewy, The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide (Salt Lake City: U of Utah P, 2005), 65–73.