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EMPATHY, HUMANITY AND THE “ARMENIAN QUESTION” IN THE INTERNATIONALIST LEGAL IMAGINATION

Mark Toufayan · 2020

Catalogue summary

Interwar legal and diplomatic writing is used to examine how empathy for Armenian suffering remained embedded in imperial, racial, religious, and civilizational hierarchies despite internationalist claims of shared humanity.

Why this matters

The analysis places Armenians within the history of humanitarian law while exposing unequal valuation of lives beneath solidaristic language.

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Published in

Revue québécoise de droit international

Year

2020

Language

English

DOI

10.7202/1068299ar

Citation

Mark Toufayan 2020. EMPATHY, HUMANITY AND THE “ARMENIAN QUESTION” IN THE INTERNATIONALIST LEGAL IMAGINATION. Revue québécoise de droit international. https://doi.org/10.7202/1068299ar

Topics

Armenian history Politics, law, diplomacy, and human rights Gender, family, memory, and oral history

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