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What is being done to Armenian monuments in Artsakh now is not new and it is not vandalism. Seda Parsamyan traces the demolition policy of the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s and puts the legal question directly: when a state sets out to erase a people's churches, at what point does that become cultural genocide? She works through how the concept has been defined, redefined and quietly narrowed by people who would rather it did not apply. The frame she builds is the one now being reached for over Artsakh.

Mass Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage during the Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896)

Parsamyan, Seda A. · 2023 · International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 5–34 (AGMI, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0043
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Topic:genocide recognition
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Academic Activism and Armenian Genocide Recognition in Australia

O'Brien, Melanie, 2025
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 76–102 (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan); special issue 'Law, Activism and the International Recognition of the Armenian Genocide'; DOI 10.51442/ijags.0071

Drawing on her own experience lobbying the Australian federal government, O'Brien traces the history of Armenian Genocide recognition in Australia and the obstacles to it. She analyzes the geopolitical and historical barriers: above all Australia's relationship with Turkey dating to the 1915 Gallipoli campaign, and the weight of Gallipoli in Australian military memory and national identity. She then examines the Joint Justice Initiative, the Armenian-Assyrian-Greek coalition through which she works to overcome those barriers. The article situates scholarship inside advocacy, arguing that academia is an active participant in the fight for political change rather than a bystander to it.

genocide recognitiondiaspora advocacydenialAustraliaGallipoli memory
English
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Survivors: An Ethnographic Study of Armenian American Activism and Expression

King, Melissa Ruth, 2013
PhD dissertation, Anthropology, University of California, Riverside; eScholarship

In Armenian American youth activism, the practice of memory of woundedness and genocide is conceived as a form of resistance tied to claiming a subjectivity as diasporan Armenians and as a US minority. Young activists position themselves in history as remnants and freedom fighters, demanding recognition of the Genocide in a struggle for justice that simultaneously demands their own recognition as survivors in a context of perceived denial. The activist tradition studied here tends toward anti-assimilationism and the display of woundedness as a means of obtaining perceptibility. Youth claim survivorship through diasporan institutions that structure commemorations, cultural events and political protests. The study rests on eighteen months of field research in the Los Angeles region.

genocide recognitiondiaspora activismArmenian Americanscommemorationgenocide denial
English
Journal ArticleOpen Access

State Identity, Continuity, and Responsibility: The Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey and the Armenian Genocide

Avedian, Vahagn, 2012
European Journal of International Law, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Oxford University Press)

Examines whether the Republic of Turkey bears legal responsibility for the Armenian Genocide committed by its Ottoman predecessor. Applying the doctrine that state identity and continuity survive changes of government, argues the Kemalist republic is the continuation of the Ottoman state and is responsible for internationally wrongful acts against Armenians. A cornerstone for legal arguments on recognition and reparations, in one of the world's top international law journals.

international lawstate responsibilitygenocide recognitionreparationsTurkey
English

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