Title Histories of victimhood / edited by Steffen Jensen and Henrik Ronsbo

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 274 pages) : illustrations Series The ethnography of political violence Ethnography of political violence. Contents 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 Summary 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? Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject 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 Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book Author Jensen, Steffen, editor, author Rønsbo, Henrik, editor, author LC no. 2013031252 ISBN 9780812209310 0812209311

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