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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?

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Jensen, Steffen (Autor, Editor ), Rønsbo, Henrik (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
Colección:Ethnography of political violence.
Temas:
Suffering > Developing countries > Psychological aspects.
Victims > Developing countries > Psychology.
Victims of crimes > Developing countries > Psychology.
Political violence > Developing countries > Psychological aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
Political violence > Psychological aspects.
Suffering > Psychological aspects.
Victims of crimes > Psychology.
Victims > Psychology.
Developing countries.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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