Marsz śmierci jako tekst. Dyskursywne tworzenie ofiary na przykładzie ludobójstwa Ormian
The Death March as a Text: The Armenian Genocide and the Discursive Creation of the Victim

Summary/Abstract: Nijakowski explores public discourses and discursive mechanisms related to conceptsof nation and race, which, in the process of genocidal mobilisation, helped cast victimsas people excluded from the world of moral obligation (Fein). Drawing on a macrocausalcomparative historical approach to genocide and other crimes Nijakowskiexamines how the perpetrators conceptualised the victims of genocide. He discussesselected death marches as texts, focusing on the Armenian genocide in the OttomanEmpire during the peak of the massacres in 1915-16. He also described the process of“embodying discourse” in the death marches, when an abstract notion of the victimswas produced even as their bodies were degraded.

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