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edocfu_9958352411502883
Format:
1 online resource(280p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. , 2014. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812209310
Series Statement:
The Ethnography of Political Violence
Content:
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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction. Histories of Victimhood: Assemblages, Transactions, and Figures /
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Chapter 1. Why Social Scientists Should Care How Jesus Died /
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Chapter 2. Bodies of Partition: Of Widows, Residue, and Other Historical Waste /
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Chapter 3. "Extremely Poor" Mothers and Debit Cards: The Families in an Action Cash-Transfer Program in Colombia /
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Chapter 4. How to Become a Victim: Pragmatics of the Admission of Women in a South African Primary Health Care Clinic /
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Chapter 5. Negotiating Victimhood in Nkomazi, South Africa /
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Chapter 6. Between Recognition and Care: Victims, NGOs and the State in the Guatemalan Postconflict Victimhood Assemblage /
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Chapter 7. Recognizing Torture: Credibility and the Unstable Codification of Victimhood /
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Chapter 8. The Power of Dead Bodies /
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Chapter 9. Why Is Muna Crying? Event, Relation, and Immediacy as Criteria for Acknowledging Suffering in Palestine /
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Chapter 10. Departures of Decolonization: Interstitial Spaces, Ordinary Affect, and Landscapes of Victimhood in Southern Africa /
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Chapter 11. Performances of Victimhood, Allegation, and Disavowal in Sierra Leone /
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Chapter 12. Victims in the Moral Economy of Suffering: Narratives of Humiliation, Retaliation, and Sacrifice /
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Epilogue. Histories of Victimhood: Assemblage, Transaction, and Figure /
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Contributors --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812209310
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812209310
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