Legalistic genocide definitions control who may legitimately speak about atrocities

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. Discussions of genocide are not confined to international forums, nor do they take place only after suffering and death has ended. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 287

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Michel Foucault on discourse and power over who gets to speak, and to the politics of naming mass atrocities in international law. — connects to: The Turkish state criminalizes discussion of the Armenian Genocide by statute — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 22