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Innocence and Victimhood

Author : Elissa Helms
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299295532
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Innocence and Victimhood written by Elissa Helms and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1992–95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina following the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia became notorious for “ethnic cleansing” and mass rapes targeting the Bosniac (Bosnian Muslim) population. Postwar social and political processes have continued to be dominated by competing nationalisms representing Bosniacs, Serbs, and Croats, as well as those supporting a multiethnic Bosnian state, in which narratives of victimhood take center stage, often in gendered form. Elissa Helms shows that in the aftermath of the war, initiatives by and for Bosnian women perpetuated and complicated dominant images of women as victims and peacemakers in a conflict and political system led by men. In a sober corrective to such accounts, she offers a critical look at the politics of women’s activism and gendered nationalism in a postwar and postsocialist society. Drawing on ethnographic research spanning fifteen years, Innocence and Victimhood demonstrates how women’s activists and NGOs responded to, challenged, and often reinforced essentialist images in affirmative ways, utilizing the moral purity associated with the position of victimhood to bolster social claims, shape political visions, pursue foreign funding, and wage campaigns for postwar justice. Deeply sensitive to the suffering at the heart of Bosnian women’s (and men’s) wartime experiences, this book also reveals the limitations to strategies that emphasize innocence and victimhood.

To Be a Victim

Author : Diane Sank
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1489959742
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book To Be a Victim written by Diane Sank and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gender and Nation

Author : Nira Yuval-Davis
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446240770
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Nation written by Nira Yuval-Davis and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-03-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nira Yuval-Davis provides an authoritative overview and critique of writings on gender and nationhood, presenting an original analysis of the ways gender relations affect and are affected by national projects and processes. In Gender and Nation Yuval-Davis argues that the construction of nationhood involves specific notions of both `manhood′ and `womanhood′. She examines the contribution of gender relations to key dimensions of nationalist projects - the nation′s reproduction, its culture and citizenship - as well as to national conflicts and wars, exploring the contesting relations between feminism and nationalism. Gender and Nation is an important contribution to the debates on citizenship, gender and nationhood. It will be essential reading for academics and students of women′s studies, race and ethnic studies, sociology and political science.

Victims and Victimhood

Author : Trudy Govier
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770485430
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Victims and Victimhood written by Trudy Govier and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is a victim? Considerations of innocence typically figure in our notions of victimhood, as do judgments about causation, responsibility, and harm. Those identified as victims are sometimes silenced or blamed for their misfortune—responses that are typically mistaken and often damaging. However, other problems arise when we defer too much to victims, being reluctant to criticize their judgments or testimony. Reaching a sensitive and yet critical stand on victims’ credibility is a difficult matter. In this book, Trudy Govier carefully examines the concept of victimhood and considers the practical implications of the various attitudes with which we may respond to victims. These issues are explored with reference to a range of complex examples, including child victims of institutional abuse and the famed Rigoberta Menchú controversy. Further topics include the authority of personal experience, restorative justice, restitution, forgiveness, and closure.

The Cult of True Victimhood

Author : Alyson Manda Cole
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804754613
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book The Cult of True Victimhood written by Alyson Manda Cole and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how the campaign against "victim politics" and the "victim mentality" has profoundly altered Americans' understanding of victimhood, and investigates the consequences of this change in politics, law, culture, and the "war against terror."

Politics of Innocence

Author : Simon Turner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857456091
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Politics of Innocence written by Simon Turner and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent "disciplining mechanisms" of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp. While the refugees are expected to behave as innocent, helpless victims, the question of victimhood among Burundian Hutu is increasingly challenged, following the 1993 massacres in Burundi and the Rwandan genocide. The book explores how different groups within the camp apply different strategies to cope with these issues and how the question of innocence and victimhood is itself imbued with ambiguity, as young men struggle to recuperate their masculinity and their political subjectivity.

Victims and Victimhood

Author : Trudy Govier
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 155481099X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)

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The Violence of Victimhood

Author : Diane Enns
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271072296
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Violence of Victimhood written by Diane Enns and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know that violence breeds violence. We need look no further than the wars in the western Balkans, the genocide in Rwanda, or the ongoing crisis in Israel and Palestine. But we don’t know how to deal with the messy moral and political quandaries that result when victims become perpetrators. When the line between guilt and innocence wavers and we are confronted by the suffering of the victim who turns to violence, judgment may give way to moral relativism or liberal tolerance, compassion to a pity that denies culpability. This is the point of departure in The Violence of Victimhood and the impetus for its call for renewed considerations of responsibility, judgment, compassion, and nonviolent politics. To address her provocative questions, Diane Enns draws on an unusually wide-ranging cast of characters from the fields of feminism, philosophy, peacebuilding, political theory, and psychoanalysis. In the process, she makes an original contribution to each, enriching discussions that are otherwise constricted by disciplinary boundaries and an arid distinction between theory and practice.

The Temptation of Innocence

Author : Pascal Bruckner
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1892941260
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book The Temptation of Innocence written by Pascal Bruckner and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly insightful essay on the culture of dependency and its damaging effects on the moral fiber of society; from corporate welfare to affirmative action, the author takes on the culture of copping out. A book against depression, existential angst, cry-babies and whining "victims," either acting as a child in a candy store or as a martyr of one's own fears. Men against women, women against men, isn't it time to grow up and take charge of our own destiny?

Victim Victorious

Author : Marie-Claire Patron
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781634851985
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Victim Victorious written by Marie-Claire Patron and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is peopled by victims; everyone has a story. However, victimhood is just the beginning of the story. This book is about the endings of at least some of those stories, the stories of victims who strive to overcome and even triumph in the end. This book is a collection of research perspectives and personal stories exploring the various pathways for overcoming victimhood. It is hoped that they might offer an inspiration for others and encourage others to stay on the path to find a positive ending. Victim Victorious is an examination of the ways in which victims come to rise above the challenges that they face. Victims may be innocent bystanders, and in no way responsible for their victimhood. Nonetheless, they can -- and indeed we argue need to -- take responsibility for finding a personal solution. To assist in this task, this book chronicles the pathway of prejudice and how the pain and the damage experienced by individual victims may be overcome by effort, by and on their own behalf. The first half of the book features outsider views of victimhood. A range of professionals, philosophers, psychologists, criminologists and critical theorists offer their thoughts on how people might overcome victimhood. The second half of the book features insider views of victimhood; in this section, the victims speak for themselves about their experience and how they have endeavoured to break through their victimhood. This book is less about identifying and proscribing the behaviours of perpetrators and more about the efforts that victims can undertake to heal themselves as they journey towards resilience and victory.

Victimhood and Acknowledgement

Author : Petra Terhoeven
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110581507
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Victimhood and Acknowledgement written by Petra Terhoeven and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of terrorism has been largely a history of perpetrators, their motives and actions. The history of their victims has always seemed to be of secondary importance. But terrorism is communication by violence, and its efficiency depends significantly on the selection and the treatment of the victims by the perpetrators, on the one hand, and the perception and acknowledgement of victimhood by the public, on the other. How does it affect our picture of the history of terrorism then, if the victims are moved centre stage? If the focus is put on their suffering, their agency, their helplessness, or on how they are acknowledged or exploited by society, politics and media? If the central role is taken into account which they play in terrorist propaganda as well as in the emotional response of the public? The contributions to this edition of the European History Yearbook will examine such questions in a broad range of historical case studies and methods, including visual history. Not least, they aim at historicizing the roles of survivors and relatives in the social process of coming to terms with terrorist violence, a question highly relevant up to the present day.

The Victim Cult

Author : Mark Mike
Publisher : Thomas & Black
ISBN 13 : 9780968791592
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Victim Cult written by Mark Mike and published by Thomas & Black. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victim Cult tackles the worldwide grievance culture and from ancient Rome to the White House today and on to campuses where some think themselves victims of "micro-aggressions." The book also looks at how corrosive victim thinking fuels movements as diverse as violent Antifa anarchists, Black Lives Matter protesters, and Donald Trump's "Capitol Hill" demonstrators.

Handbook of Victims and Victimology

Author : Sandra Walklate
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317496248
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Victims and Victimology written by Sandra Walklate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of the Handbook of Victims and Victimology presents a comprehensively revised and updated set of essays, bringing together internationally recognised scholars and practitioners to offer substantial research informed overviews within their specialist fields of investigation. This handbook is divided into five parts, with each part addressing a different theme within victimology: Part I offers a scene-setting exploration of new developments in the field, enduring issues that remain relatively unchanged and the gaps and traps within the contemporary victimological agenda Part II examines of the complex dimensions to victim experiences as structured by gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality and intersectionality Part III reflects on the problems and possibilities of formulating policy responses in the light of the changing appreciation of the nature and extent of victimhood Part IV focused on the value of a comparative lens and the problems and possibilities of victim policies when seen through this lens, explored along three geographical axes: Europe, Australia and Asia Part V considers other ways of thinking about who counts as a victim and what counts as victimhood and extends the boundaries of the victimological imagination outward Building on the success of the previous edition, this book provides an international focus on cutting-edge issues in the field of victimology. Including brand new chapters on intersectionality, child victims, sexuality, hate crime and crimes of the powerful, this handbook is essential reading for students and academics studying victims and victimology and an essential reference tool for those working within the victim support environment.

The Social Psychology of Collective Victimhood

Author : Johanna Ray Vollhardt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190875194
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Social Psychology of Collective Victimhood written by Johanna Ray Vollhardt and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social psychological processes involved in experiences of collective victimization and oppression, as well as the consequences of these experiences for individuals and for relations within and between groups. In twenty chapters, authors explore questions such as: How are experiences of collective victimization passed down and understood? How do people cope with and make sense of these experiences? Who is included and excluded from the category of "victims," and what are the psychological consequences of such denial versus acknowledgment of collective victimization? And finally, what are the ethics of researching collective victimization, especially when these experiences are recent or politically contested?

Victims' Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights

Author : Diana T. Meyers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199930406
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Victims' Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights written by Diana T. Meyers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victim's Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights addresses questions suggested by the worldwide persistence of human rights abuse and the prevalence of appeals to victims' stories in human rights campaigns, truth commissions, and international criminal tribunals. The book mobilizes philosophical theory to illuminate victims' stories and appeals to victims' stories to enrich the philosophy of human rights.

The Rise of Victimhood Culture

Author : Bradley Campbell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319703293
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Victimhood Culture written by Bradley Campbell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise of Victimhood Culture offers a framework for understanding recent moral conflicts at U.S. universities, which have bled into society at large. These are not the familiar clashes between liberals and conservatives or the religious and the secular: instead, they are clashes between a new moral culture—victimhood culture—and a more traditional culture of dignity. Even as students increasingly demand trigger warnings and “safe spaces,” many young people are quick to police the words and deeds of others, who in turn claim that political correctness has run amok. Interestingly, members of both camps often consider themselves victims of the other. In tracking the rise of victimhood culture, Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning help to decode an often dizzying cultural milieu, from campus riots over conservative speakers and debates around free speech to the election of Donald Trump.

The Implicated Subject

Author : Michael Rothberg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 150360960X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Implicated Subject written by Michael Rothberg and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A pathbreaking meditation . . . shifts the discussion . . . from . . . notions of guilt and innocence to the complexities of responsibility and accountability.” —Amir Eshel, Stanford University When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from regimes of domination that we neither set up nor control. Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and present, Michael Rothberg offers a new theory of political responsibility through the figure of the implicated subject. The Implicated Subject builds on the comparative, transnational framework of Rothberg's influential work on memory to engage in reflection and analysis of cultural texts, archives, and activist movements from such contested zones as transitional South Africa, contemporary Israel/Palestine, post-Holocaust Europe, and a transatlantic realm marked by the afterlives of slavery. An array of globally prominent artists, writers, and thinkers—from William Kentridge, Hito Steyerl, and Jamaica Kincaid, to Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi, Judith Butler, and the Combahee River Collective—speak show how confronting our own implication in difficult histories can lead to new forms of internationalism and long-distance solidarity. “A significant work by a major scholar . . . .While drawing on a global range of histories and texts, the book never loses focus on the contemporary moment.” —Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London “Offer[s] a fresh vocabulary to confront our personal and collective responsibility in the face of massive political violence, past and present.” —Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University