Indigenization of the Holocaust and the Tehran Holocaust Conference: Iranian Aberration or Third World Trend?

It is understandable that Iran’s December 2006 hosting of an international conference casting doubts on the historicity of the Holocaust would raise questions about treatments of the Shoah elsewhere in the Third World. In fact, indigenization the Holocaust—the manifold ways in which serious scholars...

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Published in:Human rights review (Piscataway, N.J.) N.J.), 2009-11, Vol.10 (4), p.505-519
Main Author: Miles, William F. S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anti-Semitism
Asia
Conferences
Congresses and Conventions
Developing Countries
Development Aid
Education
Equality and Human Rights
Globalization
Historiography
Holocaust
Human Rights
Intellectuals
Intelligentsia
Iran
Knowledge
Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Social Justice
Social Philosophy
Terrorism and Political Violence
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Summary:It is understandable that Iran’s December 2006 hosting of an international conference casting doubts on the historicity of the Holocaust would raise questions about treatments of the Shoah elsewhere in the Third World. In fact, indigenization the Holocaust—the manifold ways in which serious scholars, activists, and writers from Asia, Africa, and Latin America have come to incorporate the Holocaust in their intellectual work—has been positive overall. Within the framework of intellectual globalization, much of the Third World intelligentsia has come to include this most Western of human rights violations within the framework of their own cultures and histories. Although some of the indigenization of the Holocaust is political and instrumental, the deviant variant expressed at the Tehran Holocaust conference is atypical. Governmental respect for the memory of victims of genocide should be considered as an emerging human right.
ISSN:1524-8879
1874-6306
DOI:10.1007/s12142-008-0092-0