Histories of Victimhood /

Histories of Victimhood / / ed. by Steffen Jensen, Henrik Ronsbo.

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The word and concept of victim bear a heavy weight. To represent oneself or to be represented as a victim is often a first and vital step toward having one's suffering and one's claims to rights socially and legally recognized. Yet to name oneself or be called a victim is a risky claim, an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Danneskiold-Samsøe, Sofie,
Gupta, Pamila,
Jakobsen, Stine Finne,
Jefferson, Andrew M.,
Jensen, Steffen,
Kaur, Ravinder,
Kelly, Tobias,
Le Marcis, Frédéric,
Paniagua, Walter,
Povinelli, Elizabeth A.,
Rejali, Darius,
Ronsbo, Henrik,
Segal, Lotte Buch,
Weiss, Nerina,
HerausgeberIn:
Jensen, Steffen,
Ronsbo, Henrik,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:The Ethnography of Political Violence
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 1 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Histories of Victimhood: Assemblages, Transactions, and Figures
  • Chapter 1. Why Social Scientists Should Care How Jesus Died
  • Chapter 2. Bodies of Partition: Of Widows, Residue, and Other Historical Waste
  • Chapter 3. "Extremely Poor" Mothers and Debit Cards: The Families in an Action Cash-Transfer Program in Colombia
  • Chapter 4. How to Become a Victim: Pragmatics of the Admission of Women in a South African Primary Health Care Clinic
  • Chapter 5. Negotiating Victimhood in Nkomazi, South Africa
  • Chapter 6. Between Recognition and Care: Victims, NGOs and the State in the Guatemalan Postconflict Victimhood Assemblage
  • Chapter 7. Recognizing Torture: Credibility and the Unstable Codification of Victimhood
  • Chapter 8. The Power of Dead Bodies
  • Chapter 9. Why Is Muna Crying? Event, Relation, and Immediacy as Criteria for Acknowledging Suffering in Palestine
  • Chapter 10. Departures of Decolonization: Interstitial Spaces, Ordinary Affect, and Landscapes of Victimhood in Southern Africa
  • Chapter 11. Performances of Victimhood, Allegation, and Disavowal in Sierra Leone
  • Chapter 12. Victims in the Moral Economy of Suffering: Narratives of Humiliation, Retaliation, and Sacrifice
  • Epilogue. Histories of Victimhood: Assemblage, Transaction, and Figure
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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