The Making of the Greek Genocide

Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-325-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: War and Genocide

During and after World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, a watershed moment in Greek history that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. And while few dispute the expulsion’s tragic scope, it remains the subject of fierce controversy, as activists have fought for international recognition of an atrocity they consider comparable to the Armenian genocide. This book provides a much-needed analysis of the Greek genocide as cultural trauma. Neither taking the genocide narrative for granted nor dismissing it outright, Erik Sjöberg instead recounts how it emerged as a meaningful but contested collective memory with both nationalist and cosmopolitan dimensions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sjöberg, Erik

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Cosmopolitan memory and the Greek genocide narrative

Chapter 1. Ottoman twilight: The background in Anatolia

Chapter 2. “Right to Memory”: From Catastrophe to the politics of identity

Chapter 3. Nationalizing genocide: The recognition process in Greece

Chapter 4. The pain of Others: Empathy and the problematic comparison

Chapter 5. Becoming cosmopolitan: The Americanized genocide

Chapter 6. “Three genocides, one recognition”: The “Christian Holocaust”

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sjöberg, Erik
Erik Sjöberg is Associate Professor of History at Södertörn University, Stockholm. He has previously held positions at Stanford University, Umeå University, and Mid Sweden University.

Erik Sjöberg is Associate Professor of History at Södertörn University, Stockholm. He has previously held positions at Stanford University, Umeå University, and Mid Sweden University.