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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?

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"A powerful and original book that builds a fascinating and deeply disturbing picture of how ideas about victimhood are worked to carve up, categorize, rank, and order the vast and diverse panoply of human suffering and draw attention to the material and political consequences of these processes. Through its careful and sustained focus on the different actors and objects involved in the production of victimhood in a variety of contexts, Jensen and Ronsbo offer a unique and highly original contribution to scholarly understandings of victimhood and suffering." * Julia O'Connell Davidson, University of Nottingham *

Histories of Victimhood

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      Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 23/04/2014
      ISBN13: 9780812245851, 978-0812245851
      ISBN10: 0812245857

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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?

      Trade Review
      "A powerful and original book that builds a fascinating and deeply disturbing picture of how ideas about victimhood are worked to carve up, categorize, rank, and order the vast and diverse panoply of human suffering and draw attention to the material and political consequences of these processes. Through its careful and sustained focus on the different actors and objects involved in the production of victimhood in a variety of contexts, Jensen and Ronsbo offer a unique and highly original contribution to scholarly understandings of victimhood and suffering." * Julia O'Connell Davidson, University of Nottingham *

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