10. “The Law Is Such as It Is”: Reparations, “Historical Reality,” and the Legal Order in the Czech Republic

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, Memory 1
6. Part One: Genocide and Ways of Knowing
7. 1. Does the Holocaust Reveal or Conceal Other Genocides?: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and Grievable Suffering 21
8. 2. Hidden in Plain Sight: Atrocity Concealment in German Political Culture before the First World War 52
9. 3. Beyond the Binary Model: National Security Doctrine in Argentina as a Way of Rethinking Genocide as a Social Practice 68
10. Part Two: Power, Resistance, and Edges of the State
11. 4. “Simply Bred Out”: Genocide and the Ethical in the Stolen Generations 83
12. 5. Historical Amnesia: The “Hidden Genocide” and Destruction of the Indigenous Peoples of the United States 96
13. 6. Circassia: A Small Nation Lost to the Great Game 109
14. Part Three: Forgetting, Remembering, and Hidden Genocides
15. 7. The Great Lakes Genocides: Hidden Histories, Hidden Precedents 129
16. 8. Genocide and the Politics of Memory in Cambodia 149
17. 9. Constructing the “Armenian Genocide”: How Scholars Unremembered the Assyrian and Greek Genocides in the Ottoman Empire 170
18. 10. “The Law Is Such as It Is”: Reparations, “Historical Reality,” and the Legal Order in the Czech Republic 193
19. Contributors 209
20. Index 213