(Auto)pathography, Photography, Trauma in Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project by Angeliki TSETI

“…As this paper will argue, thanatography offers a starting point for the writer to address, perhaps even reclaim, his own traumatic experience and foster a sense of a collective identity marked by a history of victimhood. At the same time, the employment of the privileged medium of photography and the juxtaposition of life stories performed, both verbally and pictorially, allow for Hemon’s fiction to transcend the professed impossibility of representing a collective traumatic experience, as they render trauma life-writing possible through the photo-textual inscription of the death of the other.…”
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The Representation of the Holocaust in Israeli Society and Its Implications on Conceptions of Democracy and Human Rights of “Others” by Irit Keynan, Noga Wolff

“…We analyze the different approaches to teaching the Holocaust in the context of the collective trauma and explore their impact on society’s sense of victimhood and moral injury. The paper ends with a suggestion for further research that will explore the possibility that a school curriculum that emphasizes universal lessons will enable the memorialization of the Holocaust without succumbing to nationalistic perceptions.…”
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Gender, Caste and Subjectivity: Revisiting the #MeToo Movement in India by Anandita Pan

“…The ‘sharing’ of survivor stories has served as a means to challenge the taboo of victimhood while also creating the possibility for solidarity. …”
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Apolitical Memory of Political Conflict : Remembering compulsory military service under Pinochet (1973-1990) by Leith Passmore

“…These groups grew and formed a loose movement that demanded recognition as victims and reparations for its members. A common sense of victimhood and a shared way of remembering military service evolved that was able to unite the cohort of nearly 100,000 former recruits that had mobilized by the end of 2013. …”
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“The Unheard Voices”: Lived Experiences of Sexual Abuse in Male Survivors by Sarbopriya Das, Soma Pramanik, Deepshikha Ray, Debanjan Banerjee

“…Results: Commonality in the experiences of abuse (the identity of the abuser, nature of agony), perspectives of sharing the abuse history (lack of acceptance of “male” victimhood, the openness of the opposite gender, family reactions), and the long-term impact of abuse (withdrawal/change of interest as coping, sexual identity issues) emerged as the main superordinate theme (and subthemes). …”
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What is the “lite” in “alt-lite?” The discourse of white vulnerability and dominance among YouTube’s reactionaries by Cindy Ma

“…By framing themselves as the vulnerable targets of progressive movements, “alt-lite” personalities have helped to revive and legitimize a discourse of white victimhood. Their videos emphasize the historic dominance of “white culture” while bemoaning the current and future vulnerability of white people in a politically correct, social-justice-oriented world. …”
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Image of an Atrocity: Ivan (Hovhannes) Aivazovsky’s Massacre of the Armenians in Trebizond 1895 by Vazken Khatchig Davidian

“…An important document of intellectual engagement with a recorded event of wholesale massacre, the work is presented as an early manifestation of atrocity imagery within an Armenian historical context, radically introducing the representation of violence into an already established Russian Armenian visual taxonomy of Ottoman Armenian victimhood. It is a work that survives only through its mediated reproduction in Russian Armenian lawyer and editor Grigor Djanshiev’s illustrated Russian language Fraternal Help for the Suffering of the Armenians in Turkey, a tome produced to raise funds for the survivors of the mass violence and publicise the events to a wider audience. …”
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Whose Comatose Girlfriend? Figures of Crisis in Neoliberal Italy by Serena Bassi

“…An apparent contradiction structures the film: on the one hand ‘gender inequality’ is one of the themes that the film foregrounds amongst the problems that Italy has to solve to get out of its ‘coma’, on the other, the films relies on a series of problematic cultural associations with woman as state of victimhood in order to make its case. The article will argue that the gendered metaphor in the film is instrumental in creating a cultural, social and economic programme, the goal of which is for Italy to move on from the economic crisis. …”
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Turning the gaze: digital patient feedback and the silent pathology of the NHS by Montgomery, CM, Powell, J, Mahtani, K, Boylan, AM

“…We identify three counter-discourses characterising the evolving ways in which online reviews and ratings are creating new subjects in primary care practices: victimhood, prosumption versus traditional values and taking control. …”

Symbolic reparation, trauma and victimization: The response of the Chilean State to human rights violations (1973-1990) by Javiera Bustamante-Danilo, Alejandra Carreño-Calderón

“…This analysis demonstrates that even though the use of the figure of victim contributed to isolating people who suffered mistreatments and to depoliticize their actions, it is necessary to problematize the potential for collective action of victimhood and its possible dialogues with other contemporary social movements.…”
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Digital Diaspora Activism at the Margins: Unfolding Rohingya Diaspora Interactions on Facebook (2017–2022) by Anas Ansar, Julian Maitra

“…Third, Islam, Muslim solidarity, and the narrative of Muslim victimhood emerge as indisputable markers in their identity (re)construction and manifesting political resistance. …”
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The Human Rights of Sex Trafficking Survivors: Trends and Challenges in American Vacatur Laws by Patricia C. Rodda, Heather Smith-Cannoy

“…We argue that extant vacatur legislation should be expanded to include <i>all</i> crimes traffickers compel victims to commit, should incorporate trauma-informed means for establishing victimhood, and should be passed at the federal level to ensure complete and uniform protection.…”
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“These Girls Never Give Statements”: Anti-Trafficking Interventions and “Victim-Witness Testimony” in India by Vibhuti Ramachandran

“…It draws upon and contextualizes these findings to challenge prevalent assumptions about the victimhood of global South sex workers, about global South legal systems necessarily lacking resources and commitment, and about anti-trafficking solutions rooted in criminal justice incontrovertibly benefiting survivors of sex trafficking.…”
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A Quest for “Justice” in Capital Punishment: A Socio-Legal Study of the Nirbhaya Gangrape Case by Samra Irfan

“…Further, it maps the social and historical perspective revolving around rape victimhood and gender along with arguments that have been predominant for and against capital punishment, particularly for rapists in an Indian context.…”
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Marginality, morality, and the nationalist impulse: Papua, the Netherlands and Indonesia: a review article. Discussie over Een daad van vrije keuze by R.E. Elson

“…The book may be read at many levels, as a story of Dutch imperial decline and diplomatic failure, of Indonesian powerlessness, and of Papuan victimhood, as the Dutch refused to concede New Guinea, attempted to develop an indigenous Papuan political capacity, and were finally overwhelmed by a combination of Indonesian determination and the changing circumstances of international politics.  …”
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Poland, a Country of Refuge? Revisiting the Historiography on Patterns of Migration by Lidia Zessin-Jurek

“…Among the paradigms that nar-rowed scholarly perspectives were those of Polish hospitality, victimhood, and the ostensible “at-homeness” of Polish-identified migrants (and refugees) to Poland, which mitigated their disadvantages in the eyes of historians and thus reduced reflection on their refugee condition. …”
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Criminalised, victimised or other? A reflexive engagement with Queer Criminology utilising a relational pedagogical approach by Liam Wrigley, Evangelia Koumentaki

“…Moreover, limited thinking has been attributed within the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL), which seeks to understand LGBTQIA+ individuals and groups—beyond binarized thinking of victimhood or criminalised. In this article, we offer the perspectives of two higher education professionals teaching Queer Criminology in a “flipped” classroom environment, which positions the learner as expert within the subject matter and utilises a relational pedagogy lens to do so. …”
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Is the Unspeakable Singable? The Ethics of Holocaust Representation and the Reception of Górecki's Symphony no.3 by Alison Moore

“…This paper considers one particularly renowned work Henryk Górecki’s symphony no. 3 (Symfonia pieśni żałosnych) of 1976, discussing how it mediated both the global politics of Holocaust representation and the recuperation of victimhood in postcommunist Poland. Górecki claimed a subjectivity of failure in response to the challenge of representing the events of World War Two and has insisted that the symphony is not about war but about sorrow. …”
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Representation of Whom? Ancient Moments of Seeking Refuge and Protection by Elena Isayev

“…Rather, it is to highlight the multiplicity of experiences within narratives of victimhood and the confines of such labels as <i>refugee</i> and <i>asylum seeker</i>. …”
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“Out of Germany”: Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Jakub’s World (2005), and the Commemoration of the Holocaust in the United States by Klara Stephanie Szlezák

“…Reading the book against the backdrop of ongoing debates about Holocaust memory in the U.S., this essay explores structural and plot elements in the book that complicate both a Jewish identity derived from victimhood and the notion of liberation as the moment of ultimate redemption. …”
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