Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Ecological Formalism; or, Love Among the Ruins -- Part I. Method -- Chapter 1. Drama, Ecology, and the Ground of Empire The Play of Indigo -- Chapter 2. Mourning Species In Memoriam in an Age of Extinction -- Chapter 3. Signatures of the Carboniferous -- Part II. Form -- Chapter 4. Fixed Capital and the Flow -- Chapter 5. "Form Against Force" -- Chapter 6. Mapping the "Invisible Region, Far Away" in Dombey and Son -- Part III. Scale -- Chapter 7. How We Might Live -- Chapter 8. From Specimen to System -- Chapter 9. "Infinitesimal Lives" -- Part IV. Futures -- Chapter 10. Electric Dialectics -- Chapter 11. Satire's Ecology -- Afterword. They Would Have Ended by Burning Their Own Globe -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Preface: Purpose, Author, and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Epistemic Circle and History of the Armenian Genocide -- PART I Interaction and Micropolitics of Genocide Knowledge -- 1 Social Interaction, Self-Reflection, and Struggles over Genocide Knowledge -- 2 Diaries and Bearing Witness in the Humanitarian Field -- Part II. SEDIMENTATION: CARRIER GROUPS AND KNOWLEDGE ENTREPRENEURS -- 3 Carriers, Entrepreneurs, and Epistemic Power-a Conceptual Toolbox toward an Understanding of Genocide Knowledge -- 4 Sedimentation and Mutations of Armenian Knowledge about the Genocide -- 5 Sedimentation of Turkish Knowledge about the Genocide-and Comparisons -- PART III Rituals, Epistemic Power, and Conflict over Genocide Knowledge -- 6 Affirming Genocide Knowledge through Rituals -- 7 Epistemic Struggles in the Political Field-Mobilization and Legislation in France -- 8 Epistemic Struggles in the Legal Field- Speech Rights, Memory, and Genocide Curricula before an American Court -- 9 Denialism in an Age of Human Rights Hegemony -- Conclusions: Closing the Epistemic Circle and Future Struggles -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Ecological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these essays show how Victorian thinkers used aesthetic form to engage problems of system, interconnection, and dispossession that remain our own. The authors reconsider Victorian literary structures in light of environmental catastrophe; coordinate "natural" questions with sociopolitical ones; and underscore the category of form as a means for generating environmental-and therefore political-knowledge. Moving from the elegy and the industrial novel to the utopian romance, the scientific treatise, and beyond, Ecological Form demonstrates how nineteenth-century thinkers conceptualized the circuits of extraction and violence linking Britain to its global network. Yet the book's most pressing argument is that this past thought can be a resource for reimagining the present. A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.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.
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Environment. Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923. Genocide--Sociological aspects. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.