{"title":"The Postcolonial Moment in Russia’s War Against Ukraine","authors":"M. Mälksoo","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2022.2074947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2022.2074947","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45544727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“We’ve Got to Kill Them”: Responses to Bucha on Russian Social Media Groups","authors":"I. Garner","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2022.2074020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2022.2074020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49000618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visualizing Juan de Oñate’s Colonial Legacies in New Mexico","authors":"A. Fields","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2022.2066382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2022.2066382","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 2005, the Cuarto Centenario memorial in Albuquerque, New Mexico was installed, comprised of La Jornada, a sculptural grouping honouring Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate’s 1598 settlement in New Mexico, and Numbe Whageh, an earthwork reflecting a Native response to Oñate’s colonial legacies. This essay considers the June 2020 removal of Oñate from the memorial’s sculptural grouping, after a protestor was shot in a standoff with a New Mexico citizen “militia.” I will also examine other visual representations of Oñate in the state, including an equestrian statue in Alcade that was also removed in June 2020, as well as the inclusion of “Oñate’s foot” in the 2018 SITE Santa Fe exhibition Casa Tomada. These representations, and their active histories, demonstrate how Oñate’s colonial violence continues to resonate in the present day.","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"471 - 487"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42921565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Turkey: Regional Aspiration and National Anxiety","authors":"S. Altuǧ","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2022.2060516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2022.2060516","url":null,"abstract":"In modern Turkey, as in other parts of the globe, the production and dissemination of patriotic histories has been part of the process of stateand nation-making. Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, Turkish nationalists were able to forge an independent nation-state; and so, unlike the post-colonial world, the official narrative regarding the foundation of the new Turkish state did not suffer from a “sovereignty deficit” vis-à-vis the Western empires, nor did it embrace an anti-colonial discourse of resistance against the Empire. Nevertheless, the Turkish state did suffer from the anxiety of erosion of national sovereignty and this was played out on two fronts: the governance of ethno-religious difference in the country and relations with the West, both of which have been formative tropes in patriotic histories in Turkey. The foundation of Turkey as a politically sovereign nation-state, long before decolonization in the post-World War II period, has thus played a significant role in the construction of Turkish patriotic histories. On the one hand, the foundation myth of 1923 was depicted as an essential pride in the Turkish state/nation and contrasted with the subjugation of the colonized states/subjects of the Western empires. The trope of the Western threat, however, has never vanished from Turkish historical discourses. Indeed, it has revealed itself in the intimate links between the West and the ethnically non-Turkish/ non-Muslim citizens of Turkey as well as the cross-border threats outside its territory. The politics of history has been a tool of ethno-politics, manifesting and instigating the state’s aim to consolidate its national-scale power and unitary political project. Disseminated through various state institutions and actors, such as national education, statesponsored media, performances, and re-organization of urban and rural spaces, the early official history of the Turkish Republic transformed a heterogeneous social space ruled by the logic of imperial diversity into a homogenous social space governed by a modern nation-state. The politics of history in Turkey has gone through various phases. While the earlier Kemalist patriotic histories were preoccupied with nationalist consolidation, from the mid-2000s onwards, domination on a regional scale preponderated, acquiring a new magnitude over the former concerns. Here, I chart the development of the latter period under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). As much as exploring","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"182 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48674245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"History as Patriotism: Lessons from India","authors":"Tanika Sarkar","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1998998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1998998","url":null,"abstract":"The Delhi state government in India has recently introduced a curriculum on patriotism for all Delhi government school students between classes 6 and 8: mandating a daily dose of patriotic sentiments for forty minutes. The Chief Minister referred to the history of past national “ heroes ” as the staple for the course. This, he said, was necessary as “ We need to develop an environment wherein all of us and our children constantly feel patriotic 24 × 7. ” 1 Admittedly, he is trying to steal a march on, and counter, a longer and aggressive tradition of “ patriotic ” histories, whose desired parameters are de fi ned by the ruling party within the Central government. The latter agenda also inculcates fi erce anger against those who have supposedly hurt the nation. Though the intentions of the two political rivals are mutually opposed, it is signi fi cant that both identify history learning with the cultivation of patriotic pride. It was a religious duty of every Muslim to kidnap and force into their own religion non-Muslim women. This incited their sensuality and lust for carnage and while it increased their number, it a ff ected the Hindu population in an inverse proportion. … Muslims … considered it their highly religious duty to carry away forcibly the women of the enemy side as if they were com-monplace property, to ravish them, to pollute them, and to distribute them to all and sundry … and to absorb them completely in their fold.. which increased their number. 13","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"171 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45047783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efraín Ríos Montt Should Have Been Prosecuted for Command Responsibility for War Crimes, not Genocide: Response to Marc Drouin","authors":"David Stoll","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2022.2054139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2022.2054139","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42358860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subimperialism and Perpetual Necropower: Foundational Violence and Mnemonic Self-killing on Jeju Island, 1947–Present","authors":"Veda Hyunjin Kim","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2022.2050146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2022.2050146","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Centering on a case of genocide that occurred on Jeju Island, 1947–onward, and the resulting memory politics that unfolded alongside the Jeju Truth and Reconciliation (TR) process in the 2000s, this article provides a novel critique of state-sanctioned reparatory processes in response to state violence. Adopting and revising the subimperialism framework, I challenge the prevalent teleological grammar in representing South Korean history. Rather than assuming a remedial function of the TR, I approach the TR as an epitome of subimperial and necropolitical interplay of power. Subimperialism is primary and perpetual, based upon foundational violence and is concomitant with perpetual death, physical and spiritual in form. I show, drawing from Mbembe, the perpetual operations of necropower (i.e. the destruction of the other’s humanity and simultaneous construction of the imperial selfhood), killing the other physically in 1947–1954 and then killing the other in themselves in collective memory in the 2000s. In the first body section, I delineate how foundational the Jeju Genocide was for South Korean subimperialism. I illustrate the way in which necropolitical self-making (of “South” Korean peoplehood) sustained concatenated developments of disciplinary, biopolitical, and sovereign power. The right-wing faction’s necropolitics was the centerpiece of the formation of “South” Korean peoplehood, preceding the state’s exercise of the aforementioned forms of power. In the second body section, I show how the necropower was embodied by genocide survivors committing mnemonic self-killing in rendering their own history. Under the perpetual necropower, many of the survivors refrained from archiving their own history, despite the Jeju TR programme intended to include the Jeju Islanders’ voice. Moreover, even those testifying for the TR reproduced a formulaic anticommunist taxonomy (“communist anti-nationals” versus “anticommunist patriots”) that has long excruciated the Jeju Islanders themselves.","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"25 1","pages":"133 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41655559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De-Colonizing Australia’s Commemorative Landscape: “Truth-Telling,” Contestation and the Dialogical Turn","authors":"B. Scates, Philip S. Yu","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.2023261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.2023261","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article will explore the origins and afterlife of the Explorers’ Memorial in Fremantle, Western Australia. Raised to commemorate the “murder” of white pioneers in the 1860s, the monument issued an explicit denial of Indigenous sovereignty and exonerated white violence on the frontier. In an instance of dialogical memorialization, an additional plaque was placed on the monument. It outlines the history of provocation that led to the explorers’ deaths, acknowledges the right of Aboriginal people to defend their lands and commemorates those who died during the invasion of their country. The article will draw on community memory as well as white archival accounts. It will reveal the spaces counter-memorialization might offer for alternative readings of the past and explore the monument’s transition from a symbol of racism and division to a platform for what is generally known in Australia as truth-telling and reconciliation.","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"488 - 510"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47300849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Pinjarra Massacre in the Age of the Statue Wars","authors":"A. Curthoys, Shino Konishi","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.2023986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.2023986","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Pinjarra Massacre of 1834 was a large-scale colonial attack on Aboriginal people in Western Australia. Led by Governor James Stirling, a party of British police, soldiers and settlers ambushed a group of Bindjareb Noongar, killing of at least 15 Bindjareb Noongar men by Stirling’s reckoning, and as many as 80 men, women, and children by other accounts. Though the event was widely recorded in the nineteenth-century, this massacre was effaced in the commemoration of its leader – Governor Stirling. This article will trace the history of the massacre and how it has been remembered, the troubled history of a statue of Stirling which still stands in the city of Perth, and the fight by Bindjareb Noongar to establish a memorial to the victims.","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"511 - 528"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42500164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}