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Changing the State's Story: Continuity and Change in Official Narratives of Dark Pasts

Jennifer M. Dixon · 2011

Catalogue summary

A comparative dissertation traces continuity and change in Turkey's Armenian Genocide narrative and Japan's Nanjing narrative through archives, fieldwork, and more than seventy-five interviews.

Why this matters

The domestic-international framework helps explain why official accounts of mass violence resist or absorb outside pressure and how political actors shape later change.

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eScholarship (California Digital Library)
Year
2011
Language
English

Citation

Jennifer M. Dixon 2011. Changing the State's Story: Continuity and Change in Official Narratives of Dark Pasts. eScholarship (California Digital Library).

Topics

Armenian GenocidePolitics, law, diplomacy, and human rightsGender, family, memory, and oral history

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