[PDF] Collective Trauma And The Armenian Genocide eBook

Author : Pamela Steiner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1509934855

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In this pathbreaking study, Pamela Steiner deconstructs the psychological obstacles that have prevented peaceful settlements to longstanding issues. The book re-examines more than 100 years of destructive ethno-religious relations among Armenians, Turks, and Azerbaijanis through the novel lens of collective trauma. The author argues that a focus on embedded, transgenerational collective trauma is essential to achieving more trusting, productive, and stable relationships in this and similar contexts. The book takes a deep dive into history - analysing the traumatic events, examining and positing how they motivated the actions of key players (both victims and perpetrators), and revealing how profoundly these traumas continue to manifest today among the three peoples, stymying healing and inhibiting achievement of a basis for positive change. The author then proposes a bold new approach to “conflict resolution” as a complement to other perspectives, such as power-based analyses and international human rights. Addressing the psychological core of the conflict, the author argues that a focus on embedded collective trauma is essential in this and similar arenas.

Author : Nermin Soyalp
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1782847057

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The deep wounds that exist from long-standing conflicts between Turks, Kurds, and Armenians have not yet been sufficiently addressed and healed. Nermin Soyalp explains the collective traumas and their significant psychosocial impacts in terms of the potential for reconciliation among these politically conflicted groups. Discussion centres on the transgenerational implications of the Balkan wars of 1912-1913, the Armenian genocide of 1915-1917, the Greco-Turco war of 1920-1922, the formation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the population exchange with the Balkans in 1924, the conflict between the Turkish government and Kurdish identity since the formation of the Republic, as well as the impacts of assimilation policies on minorities. Drawing on the complexities of history, psychology, and identity, this book elucidates how collectively and historically shared traumas become inherently more complex, and more difficult to address, generation by generation. Epistemologies of ignorance in Turkey have suppressed the transgenerational experiences of trauma and prevented healing modalities. The Turkish state and society have consciously and unconsciously denied historical realities such as the Armenian genocide and Kurds ethnopolitical rights. The result is a collective dehumanization that fuels further trauma and conflicts. The collective traumas of Anatolia have impacted its society at multiple levels -- psychological, physical, economic, cultural, political, and institutional. The author, a dialogue facilitator for the non-profit Healing the Wounds of History organisation, proposes systemic healing modalities that address the dynamics at play. The research that underpins this work is highly relevant to the healing of other historical and cultural traumas.

Author : Conny Mithander
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789052010687

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Collective Traumas is about the traumatic European history of the 20th century - war, genocide, dictatorship, ethnic cleansing - and how individuals, communities and nations have dealt with their dark past through remembrance, historiography and legal settlements. Memories, and especially collective memories, serve as foundations for national identities and are politically charged. Regardless whether memory is used to support or to challenge established ideologies, it is inevitably subject to political tensions. Consequently, memory, history and amnesia tend to be used and abused for different political and ideological purposes. From the perspectives of historical, literary and visual studies the essays focus on how the experiences of war and profound conflict have been represented and remembered in different national cultures and communities. This volume is a vital contribution to memory studies and trauma theory. Collective Traumas is a result of the multidisciplinary research project on Memory Culture that was initiated in 2002 at Karlstad University, Sweden. A previous publication with Peter Lang is Memory Work: The Theory and Practice of Memory (2005).

Author : Richard G. Hovannisian
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412806190

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World War I was a watershed, a defining moment, in Armenian history. Its effects were unprecedented in that it resulted in what no other war, invasion, or occupation had achieved in three thousand years of identifiable Armenian existence. This calamity was the physical elimination of the Armenian people and most of the evidence of their ever having lived on the great Armenian Plateau, to which the perpetrator side soon gave the new name of Eastern Anatolia. The bearers of an impressive martial and cultural history, the Armenians had also known repeated trials and tribulations, waves of massacre, captivity, and exile, but even in the darkest of times there had always been enough remaining to revive, rebuild, and go forward. This third volume in a series edited by Richard Hovannisian, the dean of Armenian historians, provides a unique fusion of the history, philosophy, literature, art, music, and educational aspects of the Armenian experience. It further provides a rich storehouse of information on comparative dimensions of the Armenian genocide in relation to the Assyrian, Greek and Jewish situations, and beyond that, paradoxes in American and French policy responses to the Armenian genocides. The volume concludes with a trio of essays concerning fundamental questions of historiography and politics that either make possible or can inhibit reconciliation of ancient truths and righting ancient wrongs.

Author : Pamela Steiner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1509934847

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In this pathbreaking study, Pamela Steiner deconstructs the psychological obstacles that have prevented peaceful settlements to longstanding issues. The book re-examines more than 100 years of destructive ethno-religious relations among Armenians, Turks, and Azerbaijanis through the novel lens of collective trauma. The author argues that a focus on embedded, transgenerational collective trauma is essential to achieving more trusting, productive, and stable relationships in this and similar contexts. The book takes a deep dive into history - analysing the traumatic events, examining and positing how they motivated the actions of key players (both victims and perpetrators), and revealing how profoundly these traumas continue to manifest today among the three peoples, stymying healing and inhibiting achievement of a basis for positive change. The author then proposes a bold new approach to “conflict resolution” as a complement to other perspectives, such as power-based analyses and international human rights. Addressing the psychological core of the conflict, the author argues that a focus on embedded collective trauma is essential in this and similar arenas.

Author : Adrine Babakhanyan
Publisher :
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN :

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The purpose of this qualitative research methods study was to explore the experiences of all Armenians who were at least 18 years of age or older; identified as an Armenian male or female who were either a survivor of the Armenian Genocide or related to a survivor of the Armenian Genocide; had read, watched or heard of narratives or stories about the Armenian Genocide via ancestors or relatives, documentaries, social media or other mass media outlets. Research questions included: how have events and the lived experiences of Armenian Genocide survivors and non-survivors impacted their mental and emotional well-being? The researcher also hypothesized that all Armenians (e.g., survivors, non-survivors whom have heard stories or watched documentaries, etc.) are and have been impacted by the Armenian Genocide and that there is a transgenerational (e.g., across generations) cultural trauma. Methods: In total, the researcher collected 20 in-depth anonymous surveys via online and analyzed the data using a narrative inquiry. Results: The study further revealed that the horrendous and terrible events (e.g., physical abuse, murder, rape, etc.) experienced by Armenian men, women and children during the Genocide, that occurred between 1915-1918 and 1920-1923, resulted into trauma, in Armenian Genocide survivors. These results further disclosed, that there were transgenerational transmissions (e.g., transference) and transgenerational (e.g. across generations) cultural trauma (e.g., anger, distress, fear and hopelessness) due to the Armenian Genocide and the denial of the Armenian Genocide. Discussion: These results may serve to expand the literature in understanding not only the impacts the Armenian Genocide had on survivors, but also the impact(s) it had on all other Armenians (e.g., non-survivors), and may further help to expand on the Armenian Genocide and the denial of the Armenian Genocide, and its impact on transgenerational trauma within the Armenian community.

Author : Lara S. Kleine
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
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This thesis examines the effects of the Armenian Genocide on five Armenian American university students ages 18 to 29 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The impact of this event from 100 years ago is passed down generationally and still affects the current descendants of its survivors. Since this genocide is still denied by Turkey, its perpetrators, and by the United States, the impact on Armenians has increased as each generation fights for official recognition. By conducting semi-structured qualitative interviews, the participants revealed its impact on their identity. This thesis was grounded in intergenerational trauma transmission theory and collective memory theory. The participant narratives revealed that this traumatic event from 100 years ago still affects Armenian American identity and is heightened by the denial. The genocide serves as a collective memory marker for Armenians. The participant narratives also serve as counter-stories to the denial discourse. Their narratives reveal what factors have mobilized the younger generation of Armenian Americans into collective action for global recognition of this genocide. These results can be used as a tool for human rights educators, those active in the genocide recognition, and can be included in genocide curriculum.

Author : Joachim J. Savelsberg
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520380185

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of Minnesota. Learn more at the TOME website, available at openmonographs.org. How do victims and perpetrators generate conflicting knowledge about genocide? Using a sociology of knowledge approach, Savelsberg answers this question for the Armenian genocide committed in the context of the First World War. Focusing on Armenians and Turks, he examines strategies of silencing, denial, and acknowledgment in everyday interaction, public rituals, law, and politics. Drawing on interviews, ethnographic accounts, documents, and eyewitness testimony, Savelsberg illuminates the social processes that drive dueling versions of history. He reveals counterproductive consequences of denial in an age of human rights hegemony, with implications for populist disinformation campaigns against overwhelming evidence.

Author : Melissa Leal
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 16,23 MB
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3039435752

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This Special Issue of Genealogy explores the topic of “Intergenerational Trauma and Healing”. Authors examine the ways in which traumas (individual or group, and affecting humans and non-humans) that occurred in past generations reverberate into the present and how individuals, communities, and nations respond to and address those traumas. Authors also explore contemporary traumas, how they reflect ancestral traumas, and how they are being addressed through drawing on both contemporary and ancestral healing approaches. The articles define trauma broadly, including removal from homelands, ecocide, genocide, sexual or gendered violence, institutionalized and direct racism, incarceration, and exploitation, and across a wide range of spatial (home to nation) and temporal (intergenerational/ancestral and contemporary) scales. Articles also approach healing in an expansive mode, including specific individual healing practices, community-based initiatives, class-action lawsuits, group-wide reparations, health interventions, cultural approaches, and transformative legal or policy decisions. Contributing scholars for this issue are from across disciplines (including ethnic studies, genetics, political science, law, environmental policy, public health, humanities, etc.). They consider trauma and its ramifications alongside diverse mechanisms of healing and/or rearticulating self, community, and nation.

Author : Aida Alayarian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0429912153

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"Consequences of Denial" seeks to provide some awareness and understanding of the horrendous tragedy of the Armenian genocide. This book illuminates the little known fact that over two million innocent Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Empire between 1894 and 1922; a genocide that has been, and continues to be, denied by successive Turkish governments. In this book, the author demonstrates the need not only for remembrance, but first and foremost for the acknowledgement of genocides, from government level downwards. Only by taking adequate steps at personal, group, national and international levels to acknowledge such massacres, and the trauma they create, can humankind attempt to prevent such atrocities from ever happening again. By documenting the psychological effects of the forgotten Armenian genocide and by linking these effects to crossgenerational trauma and processes of response and denial, this book aims to shed light from a psychoanalytic perspective on an insufficiently researched aspect of this genocide.