Remembrance and Denial of Genocide: On the Interrelations of Testimonial and Hermeneutical Injustice

Genocide remembrance is a complex epistemological/ethical achievement, whereby survivors and descendants give meaning to the past in quest for both personal-historical social-historical truth. This paper offers an argument of epistemic injustice specifically as it occurs relation practices (individual collective) genocide remembrance. In particular, I argue that under conditions denialism, understood collective misremembrance memory distortion, are confronted with hermeneutical oppression. Drawing on Sue Campbell’s relational, reconstructive account remembering, denialism involves disrespectful challenges memory, which systematically misrecognize rememberers. Adopting case Turkey’s Armenian genocide, discuss two interrelated mechanisms through this can happen: i) systematic portrayal vicious rememberers, ii) distortions very concept ‘genocide’. Based this, show how testimonial crucially when comes ‘contested’ memories historical biographical testimony gives rise to.