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Subject(s)

• Suffering—Developing countries—Psychological aspects [Browse]
• Victims—Developing countries—Psychology [Browse]
• Victims of crimes—Developing countries—Psychology [Browse]
• Political violence—Developing countries—Psychological aspects [Browse]

Related name

• Jensen, Steffen [Browse]
• Rønsbo, Henrik [Browse]

Series

Ethnography of political violence. [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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
• Recognizin 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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ISBN

• 9780812245851 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0812245857 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2013031252

OCLC

860943580

RCP

C - S

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