"The Epistemic Injustice Of Genocide Denialism | Philosophy

The injustice of genocide denial is commonly understood as a violation of the dignity of victims survivors and their descendants and further described as an assault on truth and memory. This book rethinks the normative relationship between dignity truth and memory in relation to genocide denial by adopting the framework of epistemic injustice. This framework performs two functions. First it introduces constructive normative vocabulary into genocide scholarship through which we can gain a better understanding of the normative impacts of genocide denial when it is institutionalized and systematic. Second it develops and enriches current scholarship on epistemic injustice with a further underexplored case study. Genocide denialism is relevant for political and social epistemology as it presents a substantive epistemic practice that distorts normativity and social reality in ways that maintain domination. This generates pervasive ignorance that makes denial rather than recognition of genocide appear as the morally and epistemically right thing to do. By focusing on the prominent case of Turkey’s denialism of the Armenian genocide the book shows the serious consequences of this kind of epistemic injustice for the victim group and society as a whole. The Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism will appeal to students and scholars working in social political and applied epistemology social and political philosophy genocide studies Armenian studies and memory studies. The Open Access version of this book available at www.taylorfrancis.com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Any third party material in this book is not included in the OA Creative Commons license unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. Please direct any permissions enquiries to the original rightsholder. Funded by: Swiss National Science Foundation|The Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism | Philosophy