Young Masculinities and Right-Wing Populism in Australia by Pam Nilan, Josh Roose, Mario Peucker, Bryan S. Turner

“…Some survey responses located them partly or potentially within the field of the populist right-wing, with many expressing anti-government sentiments and the discourse of white male victimhood. The majority were nostalgic for stereotypical masculinity. …”
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Two Birds with One Stone? Implications of conditional assistance in victim protection and prosecution of traffickers by Anette Brunovskis, May-Len Skilbrei

“…We discuss these issues in light of a broader literature on gender, law and victimhood.…”
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The consequences of judicial obligations as a politics of transition in post-war Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia by Veljanovska Michelle

“…This paper explores the idea of victimhood from the individual to societal level within the context of transitional justice and reconciliation. …”
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Public Understanding of Trafficking in Human Beings in Great Britain, Hungary and Ukraine by Kiril Sharapov

“…Conceptually, this article reinforces recent calls for policy and media paradigm shifts from understanding human trafficking as a phenomenon of crime and victimhood, to, above all, a human rights concern linked to the broader issues of sustainable development and social justice. …”
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El arte y la condición de víctima: lo político y lo estético de “hacerse visible” by Dani R. Merriman

“…En particular, considero cómo el arte creado por víctimas del conflicto influencia las políticas de victimismo (victimhood) y los procesos legales de   reparación integral. …”
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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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Breaking the cycle: media representations of victim-survivors and child abuse by Beddows, Amy

“…There has been criticism of news media and public commentary which demeans and discredits the experiences of victim-survivors, such as Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s dismissal of funding for a child abuse enquiry as money "spaffed up a wall", the extensive reporting on the trial of Carl Beech and celebrities warning of a culture of victimhood. Many people look to the media for information on complex social issues - particularly more ‘private’ events such as sexual violence - and too often, onscreen representations fall in line with negative societal stereotypes around abusers and victims. …”
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FE and HE or FE versus HE: an analysis of perspectives from college and university leaders in England by Donaghy, AL

“…With Colleges struggling to curate and maintain their identity, themes of victimhood and the force of marketisation are an ever-present struggle for these institutions, often resulting in scathing reviews from their colleagues. …”

In defence of reasonable doubt by Gardiner, G

“…In this article I outline various ways Laudan's uses of crime statistics are flawed, and explain how he substantially overestimates risks of victimhood and underestimates costs of false convictions. …”

Agency in a quake in time - an ethnographic study of jokes about the future amongst Pakistani migrant youth by Lindsay, R

“…Despite a lack of anthropological work on humour, particularly amongst migrant communities, this ethnography takes up humour as an analytical tool due to its pervasive presence in the shelter and its challenge to the discourse of victimhood and pity of migrant children. I ultimately argue that conventional theories about the role of humour fail to fully account for the temporalities that these jokes around futurity evoke. …”

La Casa della storia europea: una controversa proposta museale per la storia d’Europa by Beatrice Tioli

“…Moreover, I will pay attention to the way in which the exhibition successfully displays a historiographical compromise between the opposing memories of European Eastern and Western states about the notion of victimhood of Nazi and Stalinist crimes. Finally, I will analyse the HEH’s approach to some thorny issues as religion, migrations, and post-colonial implications of the European history. …”
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Grievance Politics: An Empirical Analysis of Anger Through the Emotional Mechanism of Ressentiment by Tereza Capelos, Mikko Salmela, Gabija Krisciunaite

“…In these seemingly “angry” excerpts, we find markers matching the psychological footprint of ressentiment instead of anger proper: victimhood, envy, powerlessness; the defenses of splitting, projection, and denial; and preference for inaction, anti‐preferences, and low efficacy. …”
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“What Will Set Yuh Free is Money” by Charlotte Spear

“…Like global debt systems, the exploitation of sex workers relies on a politics of dependency and constructed narratives of victimhood. This results in the refusal to recognize sex work as autonomous labor, meaning sex workers do not possess the protections of labor rights (Mgbako 2019). …”
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"In memory of victims": Monument and counter-monument in Liberty Square, Budapest by Ágnes Erőss

“…The counter-monument not only challenges the adjacent official monument and its notion of Hungary as a victim of German occupation; importantly, it defies the legitimacy of the official conception of victimhood by direct references to the suffering of Hungarian Jews at the period. …”
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Brave women sound the alarm – representations of men and women in the Swedish media coverage of #MeToo by Lisa Lindqvist, Hillevi Ganetz

“…The results indicate that representations of women as both witnesses and heroines work to reinforce notions of female responsibility as a means to halt sexual assault, while representations of men as sexual predators build on demarcations of illegal and mere misogynistic or “bad” behaviour, which in turn reinforce notions of male victimhood. These representations point to legal discourse as hegemonic, as it seems to limit the discussion and only present individual solutions, such as women bearing witness, to the structural problem of sexual assault. …”
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“Like a Tree Without Leaves”: Syrian Refugee Women and the Shifting Meaning of Marriage by Dina M. Taha

“…In doing so, I reveal a more complex relationship between agency and victimhood and how they relate to other notions such as empowerment, vulnerability and traditional gender roles. …”
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In Search of the Missing Links Between Economic Insecurity and Political Protest: Why Does Neoliberalism Evoke Identity Politics Instead of Class Interests? by Juha Siltala, Juha Siltala

“…Identity politics supports the coherence of right-wing populist parties but divides leftist/liberal groups due to intersectional competition for victimhood.…”
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Living Islam in Prison: How Gender Affects the Religious Experiences of Female and Male Offenders by Mallory Schneuwly Purdie, Lamia Irfan, Muzammil Quraishi, Matthew Wilkinson

“…In explanation of this, the authors argue that, at the individual level, the feelings of guilt at the absence of family, the absence of high-status religious forms of gender and feelings of trauma and victimhood impact negatively on Muslim female offenders’ religiosity. …”
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“There are no women here”. Gender Discourses in United Nations’ Peace Operations by Randi SOLHJELL

“…I argue that framing women on the one hand in need for protection (victimhood) and as potential peacemakers is a sellable narrative to a masculinized Security Council as well as ‘robust’ UN peace operations.…”
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Social Media as <em>Lieux</em> for the Convergence of Collective Trajectories of Holocaust Memory—A Study of Online Users in Germany and Italy by Stefania Manca, Marcello Passarelli

“…By articulating a shared victimhood or guilt or responsibility, memorial museums are designed as ethical projects that encourage visitors to learn from the past to build a “better future”. …”
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