‚we suggest that the qualification as genocide expresses a profound loss & longing for justice that is not only…insufficiently captured by individual human rights, crimes v humanity, or war crimes. We use the term “the common” as a concept to denote this loss.‘ voelkerrechtsblog.org/whats-in-a-n...
In my latest article just published in the Journal of Genocide Research
I examine how #official narratives, #public debates, and #state-led #nationbuilding projects influence the way young people think about the #memory of the #Kazakh #famine.
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We dedicate this article to the memory of Talas Omarbekov (1948–2021) and Maqash Tatimov (1940–2016), whose pioneering work laid the foundation for famine scholarship in Kazakhstan and beyond.
It wasn’t easy to read or these stories many are deeply painful. But that pain is part of what has been passed down, too.
This work pushes back on narratives that saw silence where memory lived on.
Descendants carry stories in 4 key ways: kinship, food/coping, place, and folklore.
Based on 100+ interviews & thousands of sources, we show how oral traditions in Kazakh nomadic culture preserved famine memory despite Soviet attempts at erasure.
🆕Recentlypublished: the first study on how memories of the 1931–33 Kazakh famine have been passed down across generations.
