Un exemple d’inversion victimaire : l’accusation de meurtre rituel et ses formes dérivées by Pierre-André Taguieff

“…The analysis of victimhood studied in this text is based on the accusation of ritual murder launched against the Jews. …”
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Trapped in the Carceral Net: Race, Gender, and the “War on Terror” by Yasmin Jiwani

“…Race, class and gender intersect and interlock to construct particular representations of victimhood as demonstrated by contemporary media representations of Muslim women.…”
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“I’m telling you to stop’: Staging the drama of rape, experiment and sexual consent in Ann Quin’s Three and Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat by Nell Osborne

“…By staging narrative, temporal and affective experiment into the legal and cultural judgments that establish sexual consent, Spark and Quin deploy a modified aesthetics of shock and transgression, which helps to disclose the discursive limitations of both female agency and victimhood.…”
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The Reluctant Wife: Ginnen Upan Seethala and Gendering Revolution by Kanchanakesi Warnapala

“…While such records have largely ignored testimony in which Chithrangani constructs herself as a reluctant wife who is subordinated to the dominant ideology of the party and its leader, the film provides her a more expansive and empathetic role and thereby bears witness to her tale of victimhood and survival, unraveling how patriarchal political conquest coopts women as strategic sites of political domination.…”
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Anthropological approach to the question of domicide by Petković Nevena S.

“…It starts from the premise that the trope of the victimhood prevents its usage in anthropology, while simultaneously mapping multidisciplinary approaches that widen the span of domicide in accordance with an anthropological framework. …”
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Resilience and Memory in the Poetics of Africadia: Sylvia D. Hamilton's And I Alone Escaped To Tell You by Vicent Cucarella-Ramon

“…To do so, Hamilton relies on memory work through the lens of resilience and, hence, participates in the recent post-trauma paradigm that is intent on highlighting resistance rather than victimhood. Thus, the resilient memory that emerges from the collection dismisses the position of victims for Africadians and, contrarily, focuses on the capacity to ‘bounce back’, to withstand historical adversities, to endure by being malleable and to adapt to conditions of crisis. …”
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Circulation et transnationalisation de dispositifs et de catégories socio-politiques. Les « transitions vers la démocratie » et la « disparition forcée » au Chili et en Espagne... by Paola Diaz

“…We focus on two post-authoritarian figures present in these two countries : "transitions to democracy," as an apparatus of post-authoritarian rule, and "forced disappearance," as a transnationalizated category of victimhood. If the apparatus "transitions to democracy" was circulated from Spain to Latin America –among political elites– than the category of "forced disappearance" began being circulated among non-governmental organizations and associations of families of the “disappeared” (desaparecidos) in Latin America, by which it came into transnational use and was mobilized in Spain beginning in 2000. …”
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The Wound as Bridge: The Path of Conocimiento in Gloria Anzaldúa's Work by Mirella VALLONE

“…Even in the last part of her career, when the feeling of personal and social vulnerability became stronger due to her diabetes and to the 9/11 attacks, she invited readers to overcome the temptation to victimhood and to use pain as a conduit to recognizing another’s suffering, opening the possibility of an ethical encounter.…”
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Un dispositif victimaire de combat : « La dernière lettre d’Anne Bert, euthanasiée lundi en Belgique » by Alain Rabatel

“…Firstly, the paper describes the active structure of the construct of victimhood. Then, it analyses the structure and the special discursive use of a victimizing construct of fight in Anne Bert’s “last letter” – last because death put an end to her numerous media or literary interventions. …”
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Target Gutahuka: The UN’s Strategic Information Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob

“…At the end of the treatment, participants’ perceptions of barriers to peace; descriptive and prescriptive interventions; victimhood and villainity; opportunities for personal development and civic engagement; and knowledge of repatriation processes were assessed in 16 focus groups across four contexts. …”
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Wybrane aspekty ewolucji prozy kobiet — dwa pokolenia by Martyna Kowalska

“…The so-called ‘Mother Generation’ of the nineties (the New Amazons Group, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya), which appeared in literature during the decline of the Soviet Union, developed previously unknown strategies for the representation of womanhood, with a focus on the repressed female subject, a distinct conception of victimhood, mutilated corporeality, and the search for self-identity. …”
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“With a Home Nowhere, I Belong Everywhere”: Travel as a Heterotopic Space of Feminist Resistance in Shivya Nath’s The Shooting Star (2018) by Talukdar Amrita, Tripathi Priyanka

“…Nath’s memoir celebrates female emancipation, defying narratives of victimhood. The argument presented is that solo travel represents an active form of resistance against gender stereotypes, enabling women to overcome personal fears and logistical obstacles.…”
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Explaining compensation in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina: the case of victims of torture and sexual violence by Hronešová, J

“…Acting as policy drivers, this chapter presents victims through the prism of activism but also explores some tensions in the growing debates about the politics of victimhood.…”

Fertility, Reproduction and Conjugal Loyalty: Renegotiating Gender Relations amongst Dalits in Rural Tamil Nadu by Nitya Rao

“…It leaves out the contradictions and negotiations inherent in their everyday lives, of victimhood alongside the exercise of strategic life choices. …”
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To Make Live and Let Die: On Sovereignty and Vulnerability in the EU Migration Regime by Mareike Gebhardt

“…As sovereignty works through constructions of impermeability, the paper shows, in a second step, how Butler deconstructs sovereignty as a narcissistic fantasy and reconceptualizes vulnerability as empowering sharedness, not victimhood and passivity. Consequently, resistance might rise from vulnerability to fight those necro- and biopolitics that render racialized and gendered populations less 'grievable'. …”
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Visualising conflicts. An exploration of Canadian artist Mary Riter Hamilton’s paintings: herstory of the war by Hanene Zoghlami

“…It is argued that War Material’s, Sanctuary Wood, Flanders’ and Albert (Somme) Route d’Amiens’ connotations are more complex than solely representing the historical aftermath of the global conflict or the inter-war sentiments of sacrifice, victimhood, patriotism and commemoration. This investigation goes beyond these dimensions. …”
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Vers le nord by Olivette Otele

“…The article is aimed at demonstrating that 20th and 21st century histories of resilience and recovery from trauma, challenge the overrepresentation of stories of deceptions or victimhood. Using archival material from the Refugee Council in London, the article analyses how bureaucracy, policies and politics, amplified by public opinion and media interventions, have in fact derailed the stated aim of integration of these populations into the British society. …”
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Recontextualising the news: How antisemitic discourses are constructed in extreme far-right alternative media by Haanshuus Birgitte P., Ihlebæk Karoline Andrea

“…In the study, we explore how news items are recontextualised to portray both overt and covert antisemitic discourses, and we identify four antisemitic representations that are reinforced through the selection and adjustment of news: Jews as powerful, as intolerant and anti-liberal, as exploiters of victimhood, and as inferior. These conspiratorial and exclusionary ideas, also known from historical Nazi propaganda, are thus reproduced by linking them to contemporary societal and political contexts and the current news agenda. …”
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Lie Back and Take It: BDSM, Biomedicine and the Hospital Bed in the work of Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose by Martin O’brien

“…Flanagan/Rose are able to transform the position of patient from one of passivity and victimhood to a position in which agency exists and is performed.…”
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Moving up North by Olivette Otele

“…The article is aimed at demonstrating that 20th and 21st century histories of resilience and recovery from trauma, challenge the overrepresentation of stories of deceptions or victimhood. Using archival material from the Refugee Council in London, the article analyses how bureaucracy, policies and politics, amplified by public opinion and media interventions, have in fact derailed the stated aim of integration of these populations. …”
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