Control over genocide’s definition regulates who can legitimately invoke the term

Evidence

Transnational discussions of genocide enter directly into these contestations. Narrow, legalistic assertions regarding how “genocide” should be defined, and when it is appropriate to use the term, regulate access to the means by which discourses of genocide are legitimated. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 287

Categorization

• DEFINE: Positions genocide’s definition as a site of contestation and power, not a settled legal given — useful for vault claims that treat it as fixed.
• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the moral-panic/categorization threads in ‘On Sacrifice’ and the settlement of who gets to name victimhood.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 287
• XREF: connects to: The Turkish state criminalizes discussion of the Armenian Genocide by statute — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 22