Food Procurement Methods during the Armenian Genocide as Expressions of "Unarmed Resistance": Children's Experiences

Grigoryan, Hasmik · 2021

Grigoryan asks whether the ways Armenians obtained food during the Genocide can be classified as unarmed resistance, tracing how that concept was formed in Holocaust scholarship. She frames the question against the persistent charge that Armenians were 'slaughtered like sheep,' arguing instead for a scholarly taxonomy of resistance. She then groups the food-procurement practices attested in survivor memoirs and oral histories: feeding on wild grasses, gathering fruits and nuts, and begging. She pays particular attention to children's experiences, reading these daily acts as conscious struggle against a genocidal policy of death by starvation.

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