Genocide scholars actively shape the politics of the violence they study.

Evidence

Scholars, activists, and jurists who endeavor to challenge racialized violence do not stand above or apart from the politics of the situations they study; they play in particular key roles in interpellating violence, creating intertextual relations between the accounts of “victims,” “perpetrators,” journalists, jurists, and mass audiences. In doing so, they help determine the success or failure of other parties who attempt to effect these discursive and political transformations. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 291

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the observer-embedded reflexivity in racial and ethnic studies and feminist standpoint theory already in the knowledge base.