Foundational violence

Foundational violence are acts of violence that create sovereignty, a process that often involves ethnic cleansing or even genocide. Fatma Müge Göçek writes:

It is a truism that all states that engage in nation-building commit collective violence, and it is also the case that such violence is often the most destructive in a nation’s history... I argue here that among all acts of violence committed directly or indirectly by states and their governments, those that are temporally closest to the nation’s creation myth are silenced and denied the most and the longest because they constitute a foundational violence. It is foundational because any discussion is framed as a direct threat to the legitimacy and stability of the state and society in question.[1]

References
  1. Göçek, Fatma Müge (2015). Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and Collective Violence Against the Armenians, 1789-2009. Oxford University Press. pp. 18–19. ISBN 978-0-19-933420-9.

Sources
  • Cocks, Joan (2014). On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78093-356-6. Lay summary.
  • Praeg, Leonhard. The Geometry of Violence: Africa, Girard, Modernity. AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-1-920109-75-2.
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