Histories of victimhood /
This volume of original essays tackles the dilemmas surrounding the ways in which victims and victimhood are socially, politically, and culturally constructed, asking: How do we recognize and acknowledge suffering without objectifying affected communities and individuals?
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2014
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| Series: | Ethnography of political violence.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Histories of victimhood: assemblages, transactions, and figures / Henrik Ronsbo and Steffen Jensen
- What social scientists should care how Jesus died / Darius Rejali
- Bodies of partition: of widows, residue, and other historical waste / Ravinder Kaur
- "Extremely poor" mothers and debit cards: the families in an action cash-transfer program in Colombia / Stine Finne Jakobsen
- How to become a victim: pragmatics of the admission of women in a South African primary health care clinic / Frédéric Le Marcis
- Negotiating victimhood in Nkomazi, South Africa / Steffen Jensen
- Between recognition and care: victims, NGOs, and the state in the Guatemalan postconflict victimhood assemblages / Henrik Ronsbo and Walter Paniagua
- Recognizing torture: credibility and the unstable codification of victimhood / Tobias Kelly
- The power of dead bodies / Nerina Weiss
- Why is Muna crying? Event, relation, and immediacy as criteria for acknowledging suffering in Palestine / Lotte Buch Segal
- Departures of decolonization: interstitial spaces, ordinary affect, and landscapes of victimhood in southern Africa / Pamila Gupta
- Performances of victimhood, allegation, and disavowal in Sierra Leone / Andrew M. Jefferson
- Victims in the moral economy of suffering: narratives of humiliation, retaliation, and sacrifice / Sofie Danneskoild-Samsøe
- Epilogue: Histories of victimhood: assemblage, transaction, and figure / Elizabeth A. Provinelli.
