De l’état victimaire au discours de victimisation : Cartographie d’un territoire discursif by Patrick Charaudeau

“…This state is called: victimhood state. We will then concentrate on the nature of this process, which will be called: victimization discourse. …”
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Perpetrators’ Knowledge: What and How Can We Learn from Perpetrator Testimony? by Sibylle Schmidt

“…The current discourse on testimony distinguishes broadly between two types of witnesses: the eyewitness as an impartial bystander – a figure which is traditionally important in the legal context, but also shapes the paradigmatic figure of the witness in historiography – and the survivor witness, who has experienced a remarkable appreciation in memorial culture, and in the general upgrading of victimhood in the globalised world. What is missing in this dichotomous typology is the figure of the perpetrator as witness. …”
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The Bomb in the Museum: Nuclear Technology and the Human Element by Robin Gerster

“…A comparison with the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum suggests that nuclear ‘victory’ is more problematic to exhibit than nuclear victimhood.…”
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Camoufl-Ages: Body Assemblages at the Time of the Apocalypse by Botta, Giuseppina

“…Scholars have discussed the theme of survival in Atwood’s novels with regard to power politics and victimhood. In my essay through a series of ecocritical studies (Warren, Otto, Castricano, Sehadri), I will explore the distorted relationship between human culture and environment provoked by the excessive manipulation of the living matter, whether human or animal, which alters the perception of the self and of being in general. …”
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'Tell me where it hurts. You have my word': trauma e scrittura in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous di Ocean Vuong ['Tell me where it hurts. You have my word': Trauma and Writing in... by Mirella Vallone

“…The novel counters trauma’s resistance to representation through a highly metaphorical texture and creative acts that reconnect past and present and resist victimhood, apprehending vulnerability as a sign of our intrinsic relationality and beauty.…”
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Single mothers employed in the formal work sector in Germany and South Africa by Raniga, Tanusha, Boecker, Michael, Mthembu, Maud

“…This article seeks to disrupt the dominant discourses of victimhood related to single-mother family status. Drawing on a sustainable livelihood framework, we present data from in-depth interviews held with 25 single mothers sampled in Hagen, Germany, and in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces in South Africa. …”
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Young people from Bosnia and Herzegovina in Norway: Migration, Identity and Ethnicity by Dragana Kovacevic

“…Material from the interviews with young Bosnians and the participant observation of relevant events makes it possible to reflect on such phenomena as transnational belongings and the so-called long-distance nationalism, leading to the discussion about the contested claims of victimhood in the post- Yugoslav immigration context.…”
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The Official Conceptualization of the anti-Armenian Riots of 1895-1897 by Edip Gölbaşı

“…Narratives of provocation also raised a host of significant questions about causality, accountability, and victimhood.…”
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Corporate Feminism? Emma Watson and the UN’s #HeForShe Movement by D.M. Ponton

“…Results are to highlight a discursive tension in the portrayal of men that downplays their role as perpetrators of historical injustice for women and instead emphasises their victimhood. The conclusion brings out some of the corporate contradictions inherent in the HeForShe project.…”
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The Emergence of the ‘Dealing With the Past’ Agenda: Sociological Thoughts on its Negative Impact on the Ground by Lea David

“…However, though this approach gave voice to long-silenced historical injustices and mass human rights abuses from the past, the erroneous assumption that ‘proper remembrance’ can heal nations also produced numerous troubling ‘side-effects’: the application of Western(ized) medical diagnostic categories of mental illness; hierarchies of victimhood; and new social inequalities, which are briefly discussed in the second part of this article.…”
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The Role of Trauma in Romania’s Ontological Security by Loretta C.

“…Romania’s search for ontological security featured the articulation of narratives of victimhood, which were linked with its proclaimed western European identity. …”
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Dark of the World, Shine on Us: The Redemption of Blackness in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther by George Faithful

“…They possess otherworldly sophistication by virtue of their blackness, in contrast to longstanding tendencies in mainstream film toward tokenism, stereotyping, and victimhood in depictions of people of African descent. …”
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The attachment of the soul to the body among the Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador by Rival, L

“…Huaorani perspectivism, which articulates the point of view of the prey, not of the predator, associates the soul, maleness and conquering predation, to which it opposes the body, femaleness and resisting victimhood.…”

Refugee Entrepreneurial Economies in Urban South Africa by Jonathan Crush, Godfrey Tawodzera, Cameron McCordic, Sujata Ramachandran, Robertson Tengeh

“… The case-study literature on refugees and asylum-seekers in South Africa is dominated by an overwhelming focus on the problems they face and their marginalised existence, reinforcing an image of victimhood, exploitation and vulnerability. In this paper, we seek to broaden the image of refugees and their economic impacts beyond a narrow focus on their marginal status and vulnerable position. …”
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Saga and suffering of the Senegalese other: building racism into media representations of migration by Liliane Dutra Brignol, Nathália Drey Costa

“…We have identified that, even though it is set to show migrants’ situation in a humanized fashion, the newspaper article still reinforces the association between victimhood and migration, thus pointing to a media construction that naturalizes differences between us, nationals, and the other, the black migrant.…”
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Collective Victimisation of Stateless Peoples: The Added Value of the Victim Label by Zelda van der Velde, Rianne Letschert

“…We argue that negative labels attached to stateless peoples are partially facilitated by legal documents that fail to recognise victimhood that is often inherent to statelessness. …”
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Religion and Populism in the Global South: Islamist Civilisationism of Pakistan’s Imran Khan by Kainat Shakil, Ihsan Yilmaz

“…The paper finds that “New Pakistan” is indeed a “homeland” or an idolized society defined by Islamist civilisationism to which extreme emotions, sentimentality and victimhood are attached.…”
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Politics of Locating Muslim Women in Islamic Discursive Tradition in India by Esita Sur

“…Therefore, the paper shall make an attempt to examine the impact of popular as well as Islamic discourses in shaping the identity of Muslim women in India, and locate those alternative spaces, where Muslim women can challenge their homogenised existence as a category as well as dominant discourses on their victimhood.…”
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Post-Conflict History Education in Finland, South Africa and Bosnia-Herzegovina by Sirkka Ahonen

“…As the practice of history in its broad sense is a moral craft, representations of guilt and victimhood prevail in social memory. The representations are often bolstered by mythical references, wherefore deconstruction of myths is expected from history education for the purposes of post-conflict reconciliation. …”
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Politics of Locating Muslim Women in Islamic Discursive Tradition in India by Esita Sur

“…Therefore, the paper shall make an attempt to examine the impact of popular as well as Islamic discourses in shaping the identity of Muslim women in India, and locate those alternative spaces, where Muslim women can challenge their homogenised existence as a category as well as dominant discourses on their victimhood.…”
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