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Politics as Victimhood, Victimhood as Politics
Journal of Policy History, 2018Abstract:The victim has become among the most important identity positions in American politics. Victimhood is now a pivotal means by which individuals and groups see themselves and constitute themselves as political actors. Indeed, victimhood seems to have become a status that must be established before political claims can be advanced.
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Resisting Victimhood in Corsica
History and Anthropology, 2006In recent years, the French media have increasingly focused on the incidence of racism against Franco-Maghrebians in Corsica. On an island which has long been the locus of a minority nationalism organized on an anti-colonial frame of reference, this new problematic challenges and unsettles fixed binaries of victim/perpetrator, powerful/powerless ...
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History and Anthropology, 2006
Politics: The science and art of government; the science dealing with the form, organization, and administration of a state or part of one, and with the regulation of its relations with other state...
Laura Jeffery, Matei Candea
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Politics: The science and art of government; the science dealing with the form, organization, and administration of a state or part of one, and with the regulation of its relations with other state...
Laura Jeffery, Matei Candea
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2014
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, and social scientists must struggle to avoid erasing either ...
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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, and social scientists must struggle to avoid erasing either ...
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2018
The victims of terrorist attacks have received little scholarly attention. Moreover, the nature of victimhood, as it is experienced by members of the security forces, has been ignored in terrorism studies. This has resulted in a gap in academic knowledge. Victimhood is experienced differently amongst RUC officers.
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The victims of terrorist attacks have received little scholarly attention. Moreover, the nature of victimhood, as it is experienced by members of the security forces, has been ignored in terrorism studies. This has resulted in a gap in academic knowledge. Victimhood is experienced differently amongst RUC officers.
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2019
Abstract This chapter analyzes a rhetoric of “weaponized victimhood” and its crucial role in uniting disparate factions of the contemporary American Right. Weaponized victimhood speaks to a felt sense of loss of power and esteem among social groups facing challenges to their traditionally privileged status positions.
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Abstract This chapter analyzes a rhetoric of “weaponized victimhood” and its crucial role in uniting disparate factions of the contemporary American Right. Weaponized victimhood speaks to a felt sense of loss of power and esteem among social groups facing challenges to their traditionally privileged status positions.
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2021
This chapter looks at practices and attitudes toward death in the Wehrmacht during the Soviet campaign. It explores their contribution to the army's attempts to present itself as a morally worthy organization and traces how the experience of death and day-to-day suffering contributed to a growing emphasis on victimhood in soldiers' writings that would ...
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This chapter looks at practices and attitudes toward death in the Wehrmacht during the Soviet campaign. It explores their contribution to the army's attempts to present itself as a morally worthy organization and traces how the experience of death and day-to-day suffering contributed to a growing emphasis on victimhood in soldiers' writings that would ...
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2021
Abstract The 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has been ratified by all nations except the United States. The reasons for the US refusal have to do with national sovereignty and the alleged conflict of children’s rights with the rights of parents. Both are explored here.
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Abstract The 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has been ratified by all nations except the United States. The reasons for the US refusal have to do with national sovereignty and the alleged conflict of children’s rights with the rights of parents. Both are explored here.
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