The GENOCIDE has expelled the Armenian identity and culture

from its anchor, it eliminated the society down to the bits and
pieces with no name and no body- Varjabedian 09
(Varjabedian, Hrag 09 "The Poetics of History and Memory: The Multiple
Instrumentalities of Armenian Genocide Narratives." The University of Wisconsin Madison. [ML])
The dispersion of the .. without a body

The resulting trauma is shrouded in trans-generational silence.

We must demand answers from the outside world in order to
create conscious knowledge of our un-integrated trauma.
Pilafian, 2010
(Marni Pilafian, interviewer of a third generation American-Armenian survivor and
psychologist, Hidden Anxiety and the Conspiracy of Silence Suffered by the
Families of Armenian Genocide Survivors: An Interview With Armenian Psychologist
Dr. Jack Danielian, Armenian Genocide, Mass, October 25, 2010,
http://www.mirrorspectator.com/2010/10/25/hidden-anxiety-and-the-conspiracy-ofsilence-suffered-by-the-families-of-armenian-genocide-survivors-an-interview-witharmenian-psychologist-dr-jack-danielian/, [September 14, 2014], le)
And the children of ..

to earlier trauma.

Denied and repeatedly abused of the right to reconcile this

trauma, its the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Armenian genocidal knowledge is important in this space that
teaches of recognition and the acceptance of truth.
Hovannisian, 1999

(Richard G, Armenian scholar born into a family of Armenian Genocide survivors, BA

and MA from University of California, Berkeley, PhD from UCLA, The Reality and
Relevance of the Armenian Genocide, June 15, 1999,
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/centers/armenian/source109.html, [September 5,
2014], le)
It has been pointed ..

memory against forgetting'."

The result is an Armenian Identity that is perpetually

powerless to escape cycles of violence. Astourian 90
(Stephan, Professor of History, Director of Armenian Studies, UC Berkeley, The
Armenian Genocide: An Interpretation, The History Teacher, Vol. 23, No. 2,
published by the Society for History Education, JSTOR, [accessed 11/9/14], MH)
By the middle .. Armenian genocide possible.

But narratives can effectively rewrite the liberal, progressive history and the
present. They form the link between identity and collective memory, necessitating
self-understanding that will rupture the veil of liberal (in)justice.
Spinner-Halev 07
(Jeff Spinner-Halev 07 From Historical to Enduring Injustice. Political Theory, Vol. 35,
No. 5 (Oct., 2007), pp. 574-597 [ML])
Collective memory plays .. is no understanding .

This re-telling of Armenian genocidal narratives functions as a

redemptive ritual.
Azarian, 2007
(Natasha May Azarian, The Seeds of Memory: Narrative Renditions of the Armenian
Genocide Across Generations, [1/28/15], le)

Conclusion: This chapter has .. America for others.

The 1NC psychodynamic-ally confronts the silence that

facilitates trauma. This is where healing begins.
Pilafian, 2010
(Marni Pilafian, interviewer of a third generation American-Armenian survivor and
psychologist, Hidden Anxiety and the Conspiracy of Silence Suffered by the
Families of Armenian Genocide Survivors: An Interview With Armenian Psychologist
Dr. Jack Danielian, Armenian Genocide, Mass, October 25, 2010,
http://www.mirrorspectator.com/2010/10/25/hidden-anxiety-and-the-conspiracy-ofsilence-suffered-by-the-families-of-armenian-genocide-survivors-an-interview-witharmenian-psychologist-dr-jack-danielian/, [September 14, 2014], le)
JD: We witness here..psychoanalyst or therapist.

Constructing trans-generational trauma in public narratives

facilitates understanding of genocidal descendantry as a
mental health issue linked to colonial violence, a necessary
step to healing those ancestral wounds that reverberate
through the Armenian body and throughout this space.
Kirmayer and Gone, 2014
Rethinking Historical Trauma Laurence J. Kirmayer, McGill University, Joseph P. Gone
University of Michigan, Joshua Moses, Haverford College, Transcultural Psychiatry 2014, Vol.
51(3) 299319 ! The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions:
sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav,
http://tps.sagepub.com/content/51/3/299.full.pdf+html, [1/14/15], le)

In addition to ..past causal variables (p. 128).

Case
Their third space necessitates the obliteration of identity
categories.
Woo, Yen Yen Joyceln and Boyanton, Dengting 2008 Conversing about selfcreation, the third Space, and harmony/control: an essay review of The Call from
the Stranger on a Journey Home by Hongyu Wang. Transnational Curriculum Inquiry
5, 2/15, abi
But Dengting reminds .. missed in our own?

Third Space classrooms understand cultural difference by

creating a shared identity Idris 15, Department of Language
and Literacy, Kulliyyah of Education, The International Islamic
University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Faizah, Examining Classroom Transformational Spaces Using the Third Space Theory
in Developing Students Sense of Shared Identity, ISSN 1799-2591 Theory and
Practice in Language Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 28-37, January 2015
http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0501.04, 2/15, abi
In tune with .. a more sensible way.

Idris 15, Department of Language and Literacy, Kulliyyah of

Education, The International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia

Faizah, Examining Classroom Transformational Spaces Using the Third Space Theory
in Developing Students Sense of Shared Identity, ISSN 1799-2591 Theory and
Practice in Language Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 28-37, January 2015
http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0501.04, 2/15, abi
In the discussion .. of collective identity.