Useful Victims: Symbolic Rage and Racist Violence on the Global Extreme-Right by Simon Purdue

“…The extreme-right has long relied on false claims of anti-White violence and racialized victimhood narratives in order to promote violence and advance their ideology. …”
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Social justice as a conduit for broadening curriculum access: Stories from classroom teachers by Melanie Martin, Jabulani Ngcobo

“…For these teachers, teaching for social justice meant that education was construed as a means to break the cycle of social ills, victimhood and hegemony. The study presented some emerging thoughts on how knowledge about social justice in education could be deployed by teachers to broaden access to and in the curriculum. …”
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A systematic review on LGBTIQ Intimate Partner Violence from a Western perspective by Alex Workman, Tinashe Dune

“…Without a more robust inclusion of diversity in discourses on IPV, services and supports for LGBTIQ people will continue to be limited and based on heteronormative frameworks of victimhood.…”
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“The Best Risky Point”: Agency and Decision-Making in Young Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers' Stories of Leaving Home and Travelling to Australia by Tori Stratford, Amy Nethery, Fethi Mansouri

“…These findings indicate the importance of research methods that steer away from fixed assumptions around vulnerability and victimhood to recognize the agentic capacity of young people to make life-defining decisions even as they find themselves in transnational border situations that seek to control and constrain them. …”
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Integrated-Blame Game Theory of Ethnicity and its Significance: Empirical Analysis of the Evolution of Major Inter-ethnic Conflicts of the Modern History by Evariste Erwin SEBAHUTU

“…Conflicting parties accuse each other of wrongdoings and the felt victimhood leads to the politicization of history and disguised or open ethnic mobilization by political elites on both sides. …”
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Re-framing the prostitute identity in Zimbabwe: An approach to Virginia Phiri’s novel <i>Highway queen</i> (2010) by Oliver Nyambi

“…I find that the novel Highway queen manipulates such instability not only to re-inscribe sex work as a product of patriarchal impairment of female agency but, perhaps more importantly, to reflect on how women who are forced by circumstances to become sex workers can rise above their passive victimhood to achieve personal goals despite the social odds charted by patriarchy. …”
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“Things which don’t shift and grow are dead things”: Revisiting Betonie’s Waste-Lands in Leslie Silko’s Ceremony by Brígido-Corachán, Anna M.

“…Thus, through Ceremony’s medicine man, Leslie Silko criticizes disempowering attitudes of victimhood and Native self-shame while vindicating indigenous historical territories and unconventional political strategies. …”
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Heisnam Kanhailal’s Draupadi (2000): A Contemporary Performative Appropriation of the Women’s Question by Saptaparna Roy

“…The feminist translation of the Mahabharata into Mahasweta Devi’s short story to the adaptation on stage performed by the ace actor Sabitri Heisnam and finally, the spiralling reality of rape raises questions on the relation between nation and gendered violence, play and protest, rape and the female body, victimhood and agency, femininity and patriarchy, power and class or caste, and ideology and practice. …”
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The Case for and Causes of Intraminority Solidarity in Support for Reparations: Evidence From Community and Student Samples in Canada by Katherine B. Starzyk, Katelin H. S. Neufeld, Renée M. El-Gabalawy, Gregory D. B. Boese

“…Taken together, the results of three studies suggest that, compared to White majority Canadians, non-Indigenous minority Canadians were more supportive of providing reparations to Indigenous peoples through a complex chain of collective victimhood, inclusive victim consciousness, continued victim suffering, and solidarity.…”
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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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A virtual place of memory: Virtual reality as a method for communicating conflicted heritage at Camp Westerbork by Jitte Waagen, Tijm Lanjouw, Maurice de Kleijn

“…A central issue which is gaining increasing attention in heritage studies and management is the dilemma of preserving and exhibiting material remnants of Wehrmacht and SS-barracks or residencies at Holocaust memorial camps which are generally framed as victimhood sites. The Commander’s house at Herinneringscentrum Westerbork is a case in point and can be placed in different perspectives on the history of the camp terrain and all related sensibilities on its meaning as an object of heritage. …”
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STEREOTYPING, VICTIMIZATION AND DEPOLITICIZATION IN THE REPRESENTATIONS OF SYRIAN REFUGEES by Müzeyyen PANDIR

“…The study elaborates that refugees’ victimhood is represented through different themes of suffering, which appear around the themes of poverty, displacement, the need, and loss and pain. …”
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Seven salutary warnings for the humanities: a brief glimpse into how the liberal arts have fallen from grace by Jair Luiz França Junior

“…The School of Humanities is being plagued by the rise of victimhood culture, dysfunctional pedagogical models, and an unprecedented weakened sense of commonwealth and freedom of expression. …”
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International Law and Its Discontents: Rethinking the Global South by Rajagopal, Balakrishnan

“…I want to make three interrelated arguments: first, international law’s discontents have always been its peripheries, whose relationship to the core of international law has been historically captured by the TWAIL scholarship; second, this periphery (which, following current conventions, I shall call ‘‘the global South’’) is itself a complex arena now, not solely defined by victimhood but by a hegemonic and a counter-hegemonic global South which are themselves in tension; and third, that the rise of complexity and tension within the global South is symptomatic of the general crisis of the global economic and political system, symbolized most recently by the global economic crisis, but in fact much deeper and much longer in duration. …”
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The war criminals investigate by Schuhmacher, J

“…</p> <p>In short, this is a study of the German narrative of victimhood which underpinned the brutal war of extermination.…”

The said and not-said: new grammar of visual imperialism by Esmaeil Zeiny, Noraini Md Yusof

“…By drawing on Whitlock’s concept of ‘soft weapon’, we argue that using Muslim women to relate their own stories of oppression and victimhood through memoirs is another new strategy to confirm the pre-existing notions of the East. …”
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We cannot empathize with what we do not recognize: Perceptions of structural versus interpersonal racism in South Africa by Melike M. Fourie, Samantha L. Moore-Berg

“…In Study 1, a national sample of White South Africans (n = 195) endorsed perceptions of interpersonal racism more readily than perceptions of structural racism, and expressed high levels of competitive victimhood for perceived anti-White structural racism. …”
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Víctimas, familiares y ciudadanos/as: las luchas por la legitimidad de la palabra Victims, relatives, and citizens: battles over the legitimacy of speech by Elizabeth Jelin

“…On the other hand, DNA tests to identify children who had been kidnapped gave genetics a privileged role in demands based on victimhood. This process poses perturbing questions about the relation between these criteria and the forging of a more ample notion of citizens’ equality.…”
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Social justice as a conduit for broadening curriculum access: Stories from classroom teachers by Melanie Martin, Jabulani Ngcobo

“…For these teachers, teaching for social justice meant that education was construed as a means to break the cycle of social ills, victimhood and hegemony. The study presented some emerging thoughts on how knowledge about social justice in education could be deployed by teachers to broaden access to and in the curriculum. …”
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The Web as an Alternative Communication Resource for Pro-Biafra Independent Movements in Nigeria: The Case of Indigenous People of Biafra by Emmanuel Sunday Nwofe, Mark Goodall

“…It is found that the websites (1) provided information relevant for micro mobilisation; (2) serve as a hub for native reporting and radical content production and (3) serve as a channel for documenting graphic evidence of victimhood and contestation of issues relating to the Nigeria democracy and Biafra independent struggle. …”
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