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Journal articles on the topic "Politics of victimhood"

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Horwitz, Robert B. "Politics as Victimhood, Victimhood as Politics." Journal of Policy History 30, no. 3 (2018): 552–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898030618000209.

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Abstract: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. Victimhood embodies the assertion that an individual or group has suffered wrongs that must be requited. What seems new is that wounded groups assert a self-righteous claim that they stand for something larger than their particular injury. The article explores how and why victimhood has become such a powerful theme in American politics. It suggests that victimhood as politics emerged from the contentious politics of the 1960s, specifically the civil rights movement and its aftermath. Key factors include the reaction to the minority rights and women’s movements, as well as internal dynamicswithinthe rights movements.

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Lerner, Adam B. "The uses and abuses of victimhood nationalism in international politics." European Journal of International Relations 26, no. 1 (2019): 62–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066119850249.

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Contemporary populist movements have inspired political pundits in various contexts to opine on the resurgence of victimhood culture, in which groups demonstrate heightened sensitivity to slights and attempt to evoke sympathy from third parties to their conflicts. Although reference to victimhood’s politics oftentimes surfaces examples of egregious microaggressions, when victimhood claims are scaled up to the realm of nationalisms, oftentimes so too are their consequences. Current literature on victimhood in international politics, though, lacks a unifying theorisation suitable for the comparative analysis of victimhood nationalisms as important identities in the international arena. This gap prevents scholarship from investigating how the severity of perceived or real suffering relates to the formation of victimhood, as well as how victimhood nationalisms legitimize the projection of grievances onto third parties, potentially sowing new conflicts. This article theorises victimhood nationalism as a powerful identity narrative with two key constitutive elements. First, drawing on the narrative identity approach, it outlines how victimhood nationalisms are constructed via narrations of perceived or real collective trauma. Second, it argues that victimhood nationalist narratives, unlike other narratives of collective trauma, break down the idealized victim–perpetrator relationship and project grievances onto otherwise uninvolved international actors, including other nation-states. The article concludes by offering comparative case studies of Slobodan Milošević’s and David Ben-Gurion’s respective invocations of victimhood nationalism to illustrate the empirical applicability of this theorization, as well as victimhood nationalism’s importance in international politics across time and space.

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Jeffery, Laura, and Matei Candea. "The Politics of Victimhood." History and Anthropology 17, no. 4 (2006): 287–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757200600914037.

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Slezkine, Yuri, Ivan Krastev, Martin Aust, et al. "Victimhood Olympics." Russia in Global Affairs 18, no. 4 (2020): 62–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-4-62-99.

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In January 2020, the Russian-language bimonthly “Russia in Global Affairs” published an article on “memory politics” and related conflicts, following a roundtable hosted by the magazine (Rossiya, 2020). To our amazement, the discussion caused a very keen reaction, especially in Europe. Our modest publication was immediately dubbed as nearly a forge of Kremlin ideas regarding “memory wars,” which, of course, is flattering, but, alas, is not true. In general, the willingness to see behind everything a conspiracy of dark forces and the belief that everything happens for a reason, well-known to us from our own history, have now spectacularly become commonplace. So, since the topic triggered such a powerful response, we decided to take it further by asking members of the academic community in different countries how they assess the current state of affairs in “memory politics.” They came up with a very broad range of opinions, which we gladly share with our readers.

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Álvarez Berastegi, Amaia, and Kevin Hearty. "A context-based model for framing political victimhood: Experiences from Northern Ireland and the Basque Country." International Review of Victimology 25, no. 1 (2018): 19–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269758018782237.

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All societies moving towards peace must establish reparation measures for victims of political violence. This is not an easy task, however; political victimhood is a controversial concept by itself and all victims of this type are mixed up with general politics from both the past and the present. In divided societies, such as Northern Ireland and the Basque Country, controversies about the definition of political victimhood reproduce old divisions from the past. Drawing on these two case studies, this research project gathers together some initial thoughts on the conceptualisation of political victimhood with regard to three different models: the harm-, blame- and context-based models. The primary contribution of the article lies in the formulation of the third model, the context-based framework.

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Meister, Robert. "Human Rights and the Politics of Victimhood." Ethics & International Affairs 16, no. 2 (2002): 91–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7093.2002.tb00400.x.

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In the lexicon of rights, the concept ofhumanrights can play a wide variety of roles. Human rights can be defined as substantive natural rights that transcend politics and culture or as the rights that underlie political and cultural differences. They can be defined narrowly as rights that could be asserted against enemies in war or, more broadly, as the aspirational goals to which governments are held accountable by their citizens and the world. Despite their lack of recognition in covenant and positive law through much of the twentieth century, human rights are increasingly asserted on the basis of such recognition. To some, human rights are simply the sine qua non (procedural? biological?) for asserting other rights, whatever these may be. In this paper I do not choose among these uses of the concept of human rights by propounding a single definition; neither do I defend or criticize human rights in general.

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Killean, Rachel. "Constructing victimhood at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal." International Review of Victimology 24, no. 3 (2018): 273–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269758017747645.

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This paper considers the actors and contexts which frame victimhood within transitional justice mechanisms, using the Khmer Rouge Tribunal as a case study. Drawing on critical victimology’s concern with the cultural, political and legal construction of victimhood, this paper explores how heterogeneous legal and political elites can create layers of exclusion, shaping which victims are seen, and which are unseen, within official responses to atrocity. While the politics of victimhood in domestic and transitional contexts has been acknowledged within the literature, this paper’s actor-oriented approach contributes a thicker understanding of how ‘worthy’ victims are selected from all those who have suffered from mass atrocity. In particular, it considers how political compromises, jurisdictional limits, prosecutorial choices, and the creation of a civil party participation system have shaped victim visibility within the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

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Lu, Catherine. "Human Wrongs and the Tragedy of Victimhood." Ethics & International Affairs 16, no. 2 (2002): 109–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7093.2002.tb00401.x.

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No serious student of victimhood and injustice can fail to appreciate their complicated origins and problematic legacies. For individuals and societies emerging from communal violence, oppression, and atrocity, the quest for moral regeneration–through acknowledgment, understanding, and transformation–is as difficult and perplexing as it is pressing. Challenging moral questions abound in the aftermath of human wrongs that admit no easy answers. Indeed, the ethics and politics of transition have been widely contested in theory and practice, by people who share the same basic moral/political concerns to redeem the suffering of victims and to forge a future that never again repeats the violations of the past.

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Chouliaraki, Lilie, and Sarah Banet-Weiser. "Introduction to special issue: The logic of victimhood." European Journal of Cultural Studies 24, no. 1 (2021): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549420985846.

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This special issue aims to identify the social and affective dynamics that circulate and attach to the ‘master’ signifier of victimhood in liberal public spheres. Drawing on cutting-edge work by leading scholars across theoretical traditions, the issue illuminates the ways in which victimhood emerges as a dominant communicative logic in three distinct but interrelated domains of liberal publicity: its histories, politics and aesthetics.

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Zombory, Máté. "The anti-communist moment: competitive victimhood in European politics." Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest N°2-3, no. 2 (2020): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/receo1.512.0021.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Politics of victimhood"

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Jeffery, L. R. "The politics of victimhood among displaced Chagossians in Mauritius." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.605076.

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In this thesis I examine the politics of victimhood among Chagossians in Mauritius, who were displaced from the Chagos Archipelago in the 1960s and early 1970s to make way for a US military base on Diego Garcia. The Chagossian case study calls for modification of several aspects of recent anthropological theories on displacement and the politics of victimhood. First, previous ethnographies of displacement have focused on relationships within displaced ‘communities’ and have only tangentially seen displaced people as political actors. By contrast, an understanding of the complex and changing relationships between Chagossians and Mauritians and a recognition of the Chagossians as political actors involved in their own struggles (for compensation and the right to return) and in local political movements are crucial for understanding the experiences of Chagossians in Mauritius, the emergence of collective Chagossian identification, and the form taken by the Chagossian struggle in Mauritius. Second, I show that Liisa Malkki’s categorically distinct concepts of ‘mythico-history’ and ‘cosmopolitanism’ are not necessarily mutually exclusive since many Chagossians have embraced both simultaneously. Collective historical imagination inspires self-identification as a victimised community and attracts external support, while interaction and intermarriage with Mauritians and integration into the Mauritian job-market are a necessary strategy by which to manage life in Mauritius and are not seen as threatening to the ethnic or cultural purity of the Chagossian community. Third, ethnographers of displacement have not yet shown adequate attention to the impacts of the passage of time in exile and of generational shifts on conceptions of a displaced ‘community’. As an ever increasing proportion of the Chagossian ‘community’ was born and brought up outwith the Chagos Archipelago and has never been there, Chagossians distinguish amongst themselves according to degrees of suffering, which they correlate with generational indicators such as place of birth, place of upbringing, and first-hand experience of the displacement. Fourth, the Chagossian case study offers a new perspective on community-building in exile, the ‘myth of return’ and visions of the future among displaced people. Most accounts of displacement assume the two likely outcomes are to remain in the host country or to return to the homeland. Since Chagossians and their first-generation offspring were awarded the right to UK passports in 2002, however, Chagossians now have the opportunity to migrate elsewhere entirely. While the ‘myth of return’ is strong among the older generations, the younger generations are instead migrating to the UK, implying contrasting visions of the future and contrasting concepts of the Chagossian ‘community’ in exile. My analysis recognises both the political mobilisation of a victimised community and internal divisions within that ‘community’ simultaneously.

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Gordon, Kelly. "Mobilizing Victimhood: Blaming and Claiming the Victim in Conservative Discourse in Canada." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37800.

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When it comes to the politics of victimhood, existing academic accounts contend that conservative politics and ideology have largely been defined by a backlash against discourses of victimization. In this respect, North American conservatism is seen as embodying an anti-victimist approach – one where progressive claims of victimhood are represented as the result of an impaired character rather than as the result of systemic cultural and legal discrimination. However, while this literature accurately captures many characteristics of conservative ideology, it risks overlooking the ways that conservative proactively engage with the politics of victimhood and victim arguments. This dissertation offers an examination of the discursive significance of the “victim” in contemporary conservative politics and ideology through an analysis of three realms of conservative politics in Canada: (1) the men’s rights movement, (2) the anti-abortion movement, and (3) the Conservative Party of Canada. Drawing on the results of a large-scale critical discourse analysis and the participant observation of over a dozen conservative events in Canada, this dissertation contends that the debate over the politics of victimhood is not a battle between anti-victim conservative and pro-victim progressives. Rather, contemporary Canadian conservatives are increasingly makers of victim politics – rather than its critics – challenging many academic assumptions made about both conservative ideology and discourse in Canada, as well as the larger politics of victimhood in North America.

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Steinsieck, Abigail Rose. "The Third Occupation: Polish Memory, Victimhood, and Populism." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1587735544409326.

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Silvermint, Daniel Mark. "Oppression and Victim Agency." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/228113.

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If we want to take the agency of the oppressed seriously, we need to think about their normative situation. We need to understand what oppression does to victims, and what victims ought to do as a result. The first half of my dissertation develops a new account of oppression, one that identifies cases not by the wrongs that oppressors embody but by the burdens that victims suffer. The second half questions what kinds of moral and political actors victims can and should be. According to the prevailing "group relationship" of model of oppression, the members of a social group are oppressed when they're subordinated, marginalized, constrained, or displaced in a way that benefits the members of a different social group. In place of this prevailing view, I propose a new, effects-centered model: a person is oppressed when their autonomy or their life prospects are systematically and wrongfully burdened. I then use this account to understand the moral and political agency of the oppressed. I argue that victims have a self-regarding moral obligation to resist their oppression, grounded in considerations of objective well-being. And I develop Aristotle's account of political virtue to apply across ideal and oppressive circumstances alike, adapting it as a defense of nonviolent civil disobedience. This dissertation is the beginning of a larger research project concerned with the nature of victimhood, how injustice affects agency, and how obligations can be grounded in the absence of just institutions.

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Osborne, Taryn Frances. "Masculinity and Vulnerability in United States Jails and Prisons." Ohio University Art and Sciences Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouashonors1544710898014658.

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Badescu, Gruia. "Architecture, 'coming to terms with the past' and the 'world in common' : post-war urban reconstruction in Belgrade and Sarajevo." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/284391.

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This dissertation discusses the rebuilding of cities after war in the context of the changing character of warfare and the increased expectations for societies to deal with difficult pasts. Departing from studies that approach post-war reconstruction focusing on the functional dimension of infrastructural repair and housing relief or on debates about architectural form, this dissertation examines reconstruction through the lens of the process of 'coming to terms with the past'. It explores how understandings of victimhood and responsibility influence the rebuilding of urban space. Conversely, it argues that cities and architecture, through the meanings ascribed to them by various actors, play an important role in dealing with the past. Building on the moral philosophy of Theodor Adorno and Hannah Arendt, it discusses the potential of reconstruction for societies to work through the past, then it engages with frictions highlighted by three situations of rebuilding after different types of war. First, it examines the rebuilding of Belgrade as the capital of socialist Yugoslavia after the aerial bombings typical of the Second World War. Second, it analyses reconstruction debates in the same city after the 1999 NATO bombings, a high-tech operation, framed by NATO as a preventative, humanitarian intervention against a 'perpetrator' state. Third, it discusses rebuilding processes in Sarajevo, where destruction was inflicted between 1992 and 1995 by actors internal to the country, albeit with international ramifications, exemplary of Mary Kaldor's 'new wars'. Based on thirteen months of fieldwork conducted in Belgrade and Sarajevo between 2012 and 2015, it analyses intentions and consequences of reconstruction acts. It suggests the potential and the challenges of a reflective reconstruction, which engages critically with the past, and of a syncretic place-making reconstruction, which focuses on place and its agonistic promise. Its main contribution is to highlight the essential relationship between reconstruction and coming to terms with the past, arguing for an understanding of reconstruction with regards to conflict itself.

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Books on the topic "Politics of victimhood"

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Druliolle, Vincent, and Roddy Brett, eds. The Politics of Victimhood in Post-conflict Societies. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70202-5.

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The cult of true victimhood: From the war on welfare to the war on terror. Stanford University Press, 2007.

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Defying victimhood: Women and post-conflict peacebuilding. United Nations University Press, 2012.

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Jan, van Dijk, and SpringerLink (Online service), eds. The New Faces of Victimhood: Globalization, Transnational Crimes and Victim Rights. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011.

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Innocence and victimhood: Gender, nation, and women's activism in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.

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Cole, Alyson. The cult of true victimhood: From the war on welfare to the war on terror. Stanford University Press, 2006.

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Cole, Alyson. The cult of true victimhood: From the war on welfare to the war on terror. Stanford University Press, 2007.

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Histories of Victimhood. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

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Maguire, Geoffrey. The Politics of Postmemory: Violence and Victimhood in Contemporary Argentine Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

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Maguire, Geoffrey. The Politics of Postmemory: Violence and Victimhood in Contemporary Argentine Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

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Book chapters on the topic "Politics of victimhood"

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Clarke, David. "Victimhood in the Politics of Memory and Transitional Justice." In Constructions of Victimhood. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04804-4_2.

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Sasley, Brent E. "Victimhood as power in international conflict." In The Power of Emotions in World Politics. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429331220-5.

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Naqvi, Fatima. "Politics of Indifference: René Girard and Peter Sloterdijk." In The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230603479_2.

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Druliolle, Vincent, and Roddy Brett. "Introduction: Understanding the Construction of Victimhood and the Evolving Role of Victims in Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding." In The Politics of Victimhood in Post-conflict Societies. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70202-5_1.

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Burkhardt-Vetter, Olga. "Reconciliation in the Making: Overcoming Competitive Victimhood Through Inter-group Dialogue in Palestine/Israel." In The Politics of Victimhood in Post-conflict Societies. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70202-5_10.

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Brett, Roddy. "The Role of the Victims’ Delegations in the Santos-FARC Peace Talks." In The Politics of Victimhood in Post-conflict Societies. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70202-5_11.

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Ibreck, Rachel. "Victims and Survivors from Cyangugu, Rwanda: The Politics of Testimony After Genocide." In The Politics of Victimhood in Post-conflict Societies. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70202-5_12.

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García-Godos, Jemima. "Victims and Victimhood in Reparation Programs: Lessons from Latin America." In The Politics of Victimhood in Post-conflict Societies. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70202-5_2.

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Alija-Fernández, Rosa Ana, and Olga Martin-Ortega. "Franco’s Victims in Spain: The Long Road Towards Justice and Recognition." In The Politics of Victimhood in Post-conflict Societies. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70202-5_3.

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Druliolle, Vincent. "The Struggle for Recognition of the Stolen Children and the Politics of Victimhood in Spain." In The Politics of Victimhood in Post-conflict Societies. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70202-5_4.

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