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Just Remembering

Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance and Sociopolitical Judgment

Michael Warren Tumolo

Just Remembering: Rhetorics of Genocide Remembranceand Sociopolitical Judgment analyzes a set of influential discourses of genocide remembrance to explain how public memory discourses inform sociopolitical judgment. Within this explanatory context, Just Remembering additionally asks how we might remember pasts marked by genocidal violence in ways that commit ourselves to a deeper understanding and more humane practice of justice.

The chapters are thematically organized, focusing on specific sites of memory to highlight symbolic inducements of memorial discourses. Chapter 2 analyzes U.S. public discourse concerning an “Armenian Genocide” resolution to elucidate the role of politics in the production, dissemination, and maintenance of memory. Chapter 3 offers a historical account of the shift in public discourse concerning the capture of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, demonstrating how and with what consequences the discourses shifted from a focus on law to a focus on morality. Chapter 4 expands this work by analyzing how competing narrative accounts of historical figures and events (Eichmann and the Holocaust) influence what we remember, how we remember, and the ends to which we apply such memories. Chapter 5 analyzes the Report of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust that produced the United States’ official remembrance of the Holocaust. This chapter argues that the Commission Report provides an exemplary explanation for why we should remember and provokes a complex understanding of what we are to remember. Chapter 6 concludes the book by focusing on the productive capacity of the humanitarian aims of U.S. Holocaust remembrance.

University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Pages: 110 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-1-61147-812-9 • Hardback • October 2015 • $76.00 • (£58.00)

978-1-61147-813-6 • eBook • October 2015 • $72.00 • (£55.00)

Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies

Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric, Social Science / Violence in Society

Just Remembering

Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance and Sociopolitical Judgment

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eBook

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Just Remembering: Rhetorics of Genocide Remembranceand Sociopolitical Judgment analyzes a set of influential discourses of genocide remembrance to explain how public memory discourses inform sociopolitical judgment. Within this explanatory context, Just Remembering additionally asks how we might remember pasts marked by genocidal violence in ways that commit ourselves to a deeper understanding and more humane practice of justice.

The chapters are thematically organized, focusing on specific sites of memory to highlight symbolic inducements of memorial discourses. Chapter 2 analyzes U.S. public discourse concerning an “Armenian Genocide” resolution to elucidate the role of politics in the production, dissemination, and maintenance of memory. Chapter 3 offers a historical account of the shift in public discourse concerning the capture of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, demonstrating how and with what consequences the discourses shifted from a focus on law to a focus on morality. Chapter 4 expands this work by analyzing how competing narrative accounts of historical figures and events (Eichmann and the Holocaust) influence what we remember, how we remember, and the ends to which we apply such memories. Chapter 5 analyzes the Report of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust that produced the United States’ official remembrance of the Holocaust. This chapter argues that the Commission Report provides an exemplary explanation for why we should remember and provokes a complex understanding of what we are to remember. Chapter 6 concludes the book by focusing on the productive capacity of the humanitarian aims of U.S. Holocaust remembrance.

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University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Pages: 110 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-1-61147-812-9 • Hardback • October 2015 • $76.00 • (£58.00)

978-1-61147-813-6 • eBook • October 2015 • $72.00 • (£55.00)

Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies

Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric, Social Science / Violence in Society

Author

Michael Tumolo is assistant professor of communication studies at California State University, Stanislaus.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Just Remembering: Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance and Sociopolitical Judgment
Chapter 2: Genocide and Memory Politics: An “Armenian Genocide” Resolution, a Staging Ground for War, and “Pragmatic Nullification”
Chapter 3: Nullification in International Memory Discourse: Tracing the Capture of Adolf Eichmann from Legal Outrage to Moral Consciousness
Chapter 4: Consequences of Memory: A Bureaucrat, a Monster, and Sociopolitical Judgment
Chapter 5: Consequential Remembrance: President’s Commission on the Holocaust
Chapter 6: A Commitment to Preventing Recurrence: The “Living Memorial” and the Committee on Conscience
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Just Remembering

Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance and Sociopolitical Judgment

Michael Warren Tumolo

Just Remembering

Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance and Sociopolitical Judgment

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