Circassians and the Politics of Genocide Recognition

Maja Catic

Europe-Asia Studies, 2015, vol. 67, issue 10, 1685-1708

Abstract: This article examines the evolution and significance of the genocide recognition initiative among Circassians at the turn of the twenty-first century. It argues that, on the most basic level, the Circassian genocide recognition initiative is an identity-driven project, resulting from a fear of extinction that grows out of the experience of being a vulnerable, ethno-national group living with memories of massacres, deportations, exile and fragmentation. Genocide, in effect, becomes a frame used to articulate a seemingly universal Circassian grievance—the fear of extinction—but one that manifests itself in diverse ways on the homeland–diaspora continuum.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2015.1102202

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