The Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism

The injustice of genocide denial is commonly understood as a violation of the dignity of victims, survivors, and their descendants, and further described as an assault on truth and memory. This book rethinks the normative relationship between dignity, truth, and memory in relation to genocide denial...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1600712025-05-22T05:05:56Z The Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism Altanian, Melanie Melanie Altanian epistemic injustice genocide denialism social epistemology political epistemology genocide denial dignity memory marginalization truth powerlessness collective amnesia organized forgetting epistemic agency Miranda Fricker Armenian genocide hermeneutical oppression testimony testimonial injustice impunity ignorance discriminatory epistemic injustice silencing misremembrance thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTK Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC1 Popular culture thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JW Warfare and defence thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology The injustice of genocide denial is commonly understood as a violation of the dignity of victims, survivors, and their descendants, and further described as an assault on truth and memory. This book rethinks the normative relationship between dignity, truth, and memory in relation to genocide denial by adopting the framework of epistemic injustice. This framework performs two functions. First, it introduces constructive normative vocabulary into genocide scholarship through which we can gain a better understanding of the normative impacts of genocide denial when it is institutionalized and systematic. Second, it develops and enriches current scholarship on epistemic injustice with a further, underexplored case study. Genocide denialism is relevant for political and social epistemology, as it presents a substantive epistemic practice that distorts normativity and social reality in ways that maintain domination. This generates pervasive ignorance that makes denial rather than recognition of genocide appear as the morally and epistemically right thing to do. By focusing on the prominent case of Turkey’s denialism of the Armenian genocide, the book shows the serious consequences of this kind of epistemic injustice for the victim group and society as a whole. The Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism will appeal to students and scholars working in social, political, and applied epistemology, social and political philosophy, genocide studies, Armenian studies, and memory studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Any third party material in this book is not included in the OA Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. Please direct any permissions enquiries to the original rightsholder. Funded by: Swiss National Science Foundation 2025-05-22T05:05:56Z 2025-05-22T05:05:56Z 2025-05-21T15:00:28Z 2024 book ONIX_20250521T155841_9781040022856_97 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102322 9781040022856 9781040022863 9781032060613 9781003202158 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160071 eng Routledge Studies in Epistemology open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102322/1/9781040022856.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003202158 10.4324/9781003202158 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 4bb461ae-a887-4564-b3a7-29e6d7e08318 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 9781040022856 9781040022863 9781032060613 9781003202158 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Routledge 194 Oxford [...] Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung ror.org/00yjd3n13 open access
spellingShingle Melanie Altanian
epistemic injustice
genocide denialism
social epistemology
political epistemology
genocide denial
dignity
memory
marginalization
truth
powerlessness
collective amnesia
organized forgetting
epistemic agency
Miranda Fricker
Armenian genocide
hermeneutical oppression
testimony
testimonial injustice
impunity
ignorance
discriminatory epistemic injustice
silencing
misremembrance
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topic Melanie Altanian
epistemic injustice
genocide denialism
social epistemology
political epistemology
genocide denial
dignity
memory
marginalization
truth
powerlessness
collective amnesia
organized forgetting
epistemic agency
Miranda Fricker
Armenian genocide
hermeneutical oppression
testimony
testimonial injustice
impunity
ignorance
discriminatory epistemic injustice
silencing
misremembrance
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thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC1 Popular culture
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JW Warfare and defence
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
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genocide denialism
social epistemology
political epistemology
genocide denial
dignity
memory
marginalization
truth
powerlessness
collective amnesia
organized forgetting
epistemic agency
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Armenian genocide
hermeneutical oppression
testimony
testimonial injustice
impunity
ignorance
discriminatory epistemic injustice
silencing
misremembrance
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
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