• norsk
    • English
  • English 
    • norsk
    • English
  • Login
View Item 
  •   Home
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and the History of Religions
  • Master theses
  • View Item
  •   Home
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and the History of Religions
  • Master theses
  • View Item
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

Med kultur som våpen - Utslettingspolitikken førd mot armenarane under fyrste verdskrig sett i lys av Assmann sin minneteori

Heim, Aisha Marie
Master thesis
Thumbnail
View/Open
master thesis (331.7Kb)
master thesis (968.2Kb)
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1956/23062
Date
2020-06-27
Metadata
Show full item record
Collections
  • Master theses [64]
Abstract
This master thesis is aiming at exploring The Ottoman Empires destructive politics towards the Armenian population during World War I through the theory of Cultural memory by Jan and Aleida Assmann. Culture was intended to be a big part of the definition of Geocide in the development of the Convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide between the two world wars. Still, the ratified text of 1948 bear little or no sign of this. In this thesis, description from field reports by German officials spanning from 1909-1928 is analysed and explored through Assmanns theory of Cultural memory. This gives a possibility of not only getting a grasp of the magnitude of the destruction this politics had on the Armenians as individuals and as a group during those years, it also unveils structures that have consequences beyond the many people who suffered and died. The systematic oppression against the Armenians during World War I is today part of a politically tense discussion on whether it was or wasn’t a genocide. The view in this thesis is that it was a humanitarian crisis, and hopefully looking at the politics in a new way, this can be a humble contribution in the work being done in understanding and of that, preventing similar events in the future.
Publisher
The University of Bergen
Copyright
Copyright the Author. All rights reserved

Contact Us | Send Feedback

Privacy policy
DSpace software copyright © 2002-2019  DuraSpace

Service from  Unit
 

 

Browse

ArchiveCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDocument TypesJournalsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDocument TypesJournals

My Account

Login

Statistics

View Usage Statistics

Contact Us | Send Feedback

Privacy policy
DSpace software copyright © 2002-2019  DuraSpace

Service from  Unit