As an Australian researcher of contact between cultures and religions and the effects on political identities in the Middle East, I was interested to read Gary Malone's article 'The Armenian Genocide: The Moral Necessity of Remembering'. The suffering and death toll of Armenians in their relations with the Ottoman state were awesome during and following the First World War: it was a peak of the dehumanization of modern nationalist man, and we do indeed have…
Report from Southern Thailand's Prince of Songkla UniversityNationalist revolutions are not for the squeamish or for aesthetes who favour blended colours and shades. They are binary and they dichotomise. Some revolutions do start out as exhibitions of delicate embroidery, but even then they are more than banquets and seminars for the fine-mannered. Revolutions are uprisings by which long-excluded classes and nations that have been systemically degraded, de-cultured, brutalised and robbed rise up against the classes…
