Hidden Genocides

ALEXANDER LABAN HINTON is the director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and a professor of anthropology and global affairs at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the author of the award-winning Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide and six edited collections.THOMAS LA POINTE is a member of the Center for Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation and an assistant professor of literature and composition at Bergen Community College. He has taught at the Shanghai International Studies University, China, and served as a journalist at the Institute for Central American Studies, Costa Rica.DOUGLAS IRVIN-ERICKSON is an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights at Rutgers University, Newark.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, MemoryDouglas Irvin-Erickson, Thomas La Pointe, and Alexander Laban HintonPart One: Genocide and Ways of Knowing1. Does the Holocaust Reveal or Conceal Other Genocides?: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and Grievable SufferingA. Dirk Moses2. Hidden in Plain Sight: Atrocity Concealment in German Political Culture before the First World WarElisa von Joeden-Forgey3. Beyond the Binary Model: National Security Doctrine in Argentina as a Way of Rethinking Genocide as a Social PracticeDaniel FeiersteinPart Two: Power, Resistance, and Edges of the State4. "Simply Bred Out": Genocide and the Ethical in the Stolen GenerationsDonna-Lee Frieze5. Historical Amnesia: The "Hidden Genocide" and Destruction of the Indigenous Peoples of the United StatesChris Mato Nunpa6. Circassia: A Small Nation Lost to the Great GameWalter RichmondPart Three: Forgetting, Remembering, and Hidden Genocides7. The Great Lakes Genocides: Hidden Histories, Hidden PrecedentsAdam Jones8. Genocide and the Politics of Memory in CambodiaAlexander Laban Hinton9. Constructing the "Armenian Genoicde": How Scholars Unremembered the Assyrian and Greek Genocides in the Ottoman EmpireHannibal Travis10. "The Law Is Such as It Is": Reparations, "Historical Reality," and the Legal Order in the Czech RepublicKrista HegburgContributorsIndex

"Hidden Genocides is a penetrating scholarly searchlight illuminating an important and previously obscured landscape." - Frank Chalk (Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University) "By problematizing, both theoretically and empirically, the canon of genocide studies, this collection makes an important contribution to an underdeveloped field." - Jens Meierhenrich (London School of Economics and Political Science) "Hidden Genocides is a timely collection of critical essays that effectively engages scholars in rethinking the way we conceptualize, approach, and teach genocide studies. A must-read for a wide-range of scholars." (Journal of Anthropological Research) "Hinton, La Pointe, and Irvin-Erickson offer a useful prism through which to examine and weigh conventional accounts of genocide. It reveals cover-ups and makes the invisible visible." (Genocide Studies and Prevention) "Hidden Genocides collection is an essential guide to the latest scholarship on genocide studies from an international and comparative perspective." (American Hellenic Institute Policy Journal) "Hidden Genocides is a penetrating scholarly searchlight illuminating an important and previously obscured landscape." - Frank Chalk (Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University) "By problematizing, both theoretically and empirically, the canon of genocide studies, this collection makes an important contribution to an underdeveloped field." - Jens Meierhenrich (London School of Economics and Political Science) "Hidden Genocides is a timely collection of critical essays that effectively engages scholars in rethinking the way we conceptualize, approach, and teach genocide studies. A must-read for a wide-range of scholars." (Journal of Anthropological Research) "Hinton, La Pointe, and Irvin-Erickson offer a useful prism through which to examine and weigh conventional accounts of genocide. It reveals cover-ups and makes the invisible visible." (Genocide Studies and Prevention) "Hidden Genocides collection is an essential guide to the latest scholarship on genocide studies from an international and comparative perspective." (American Hellenic Institute Policy Journal)