Histories of Victimhood.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. Histories of Victimhood: Assemblages, Transactions, and Figures -- 1. Why Social Scientists Should Care How Jesus Died -- 2. Bodies of Partition: of Widows, Residue, and Other Historical Waste -- 3. "Extremely Poor" Mothers and Debit Cards: The Families in an Action Cash-Transfer Program in Colombia -- 4. How to Become a Victim: Pragmatics of the Admission of Women in a South African Primary Health Care Clinic -- 5. Negotiating Victimhood in Nkomazi, South Africa -- 6. Between Recognition and Care: Victims, NGOs, and the State in the Guatemalan Postconflict Victimhood Assemblages -- 7. Recognizing Torture: Credibility and the Unstable Codification of Victimhood -- 8. The Power of Dead Bodies -- 9. Why Is Muna Crying? Event, Relation, and Immediacy as Criteria for Acknowledging Suffering in Palestine -- 10. Departures of Decolonization: Interstitial Spaces, Ordinary Affect, and Landscapes of Victimhood in Southern Africa -- 11. Performances of Victimhood, Allegation, and Disavowal in Sierra Leone -- 12. Victims in the Moral Economy of Suffering: Narratives of Humiliation, Retaliation, and Sacrifice -- Epilogue. Histories of Victimhood: Assemblage, Transaction, and Figure -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments.

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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