Politics of Denial and Non-Recognition of Genocide : The Case of the Rohingya / edited by Nasir Uddin, Palash Kamruzzaman, Bayes Ahmed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Uddin, Nasir., Editor.

Kamruzzaman, Palash., Editor.

Ahmed, Bayes., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology.

Anthropology.

Emigration and immigration.

Human rights.

Humanitarian law.

Law and the social sciences.

Diaspora Studies.

Human Rights.

International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict.

Socio-Legal Studies.

Local Subjects:

Sociology.

Anthropology.

Diaspora Studies.

Human Rights.

International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict.

Socio-Legal Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXXI, 505 p. 7 illus.). 6 illus. in color.

Edition:

1st ed. 2026.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2026.

Summary:

This open-access book offers an examination of the Rohingya genocide by bringing questions of violence, denial, and justice in a single interdisciplinary frame. While the mass atrocities against the Rohingya are well-documented, this book shows how recognition and accountability continue to be constrained by state denial, geopolitical diplomacy, and legal thresholds. Drawing on transdisciplinary backgrounds, the contributors reveal how the Rohingya have been systematically rendered stateless through denationalisation and state-sponsored narratives, which continue to shape the search for justice, including through the ongoing International Court of Justice case. The book’s distinctive contribution is to combine survivor-centred evidence with broader legal analysis. Organised in three parts, the chapters combine socio-legal analysis with empirical evidence from refugee camps, addressing structural violence, water insecurity, gender-based violence, domicide, media-framing, and the governance of protracted displacement. In doing so, the book goes beyond familiar accounts of displacement to show how genocide operates before, during, and after 2017 through genocidal denial. It connects Rohingya survivor testimony, grounded field evidence, and contemporary debates on genocidal intent, non-legal definitions, and post-atrocity governance. This makes the volume an important resource in the field of genocide, forced migration, international law, human rights, social justice, and South and Southeast Asian politics. <Nasir Uddin is a Cultural Anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Palash Kamruzzaman is Professor of Social Policy at the University of South Wales, UK. Bayes Ahmed is Associate Professor in the Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, UK.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter-One: The Paradox of the Rohingya Genocide: Denial and (Non-)recognition

Part-One: Conceptual and Legal Context of Genocide

Chapter-Two: What’s in a Name? Language and the Politics of Invoking and Evoking the Rohingya Genocide

Chapter-Three: Genocide Denial and Recognition: A Contested Perspective of the Rohingya Genocide

Chapter-Four: ‘If Everything is Genocide, Nothing is Genocide’: The Construction of Impunity for the Rohingya Genocide Within International Law

Chapter-Five: The Politics of Rohingya Genocide: Why Non-legal Definitions Matter for Understanding Genocidal Intent

Chapter-Six: Water as a Weapon: Water Insecurity and the Politics of Genocide in Rohingya Settlements in Myanmar

Part-Two: Empirical and Evidential Narratives of the Rohingya Genocide

Chapter-Seven: Understanding Genocidal Violence: The Discursiveness of Camp-based Rohingya Narratives from Bangladesh

Chapter-Eight: The Politics of Forced Reproduction: Genocide Denial and the Legal Invisibility of Rohingya Children

Chapter-Nine: How Partial Genocide Denial in the Aftermath of 2017 Perpetuated the Conditions for the 2024-2025 Rohingya Genocide

Chapter-Ten: Genocide Testified by Survivors: The Rohingya Case

Chapter-Eleven: Gender-based Violence as a Weapon of Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar

Part-Three: The Rohingya Genocide in Global Perspective

Chapter-Twelve: Recognising the Rohingya Genocide in the Global Media

Chapter-Thirteen: Intersection of Genocide and Forced Displacement: A Case of the Rohingya

Chapter-Fourteen: The United Nations (UN), Complicity and Myanmar’s Genocide of the Rohingya

Chapter-Fifteen: The Rohingya Crisis and International Law: Some Reflections on The Gambia v. Myanmar at the International Court of Justice.-Chapter-Sixteen: “Our Heart is Always in Burma”: Rohingya Narratives of Return amid Ongoing Genocide in Myanmar

Conclusion

Chapter-Seventeen: Denial or (Non)recognition of the Rohingya ‘Genocide’? A View Through the Lens of the ‘Veil of Ignorance’.

Notes:

Print version record.

ISBN:

9789819227662