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As of 2023, over nine million Colombians have secured official recognition as victims of an armed conflict that has lasted decades. The category of 'victim' is not a mere description of having suffered harm, but a political status and a potential site of power. In this book, Roxani Krystalli investigates the politics of victimhood as a feminist question. Based on in-depth engagement in Colombia over the course of a decade, Krystalli argues for the possibilities of politics through, rather than in opposition to, the status of 'victim'. Encompassing acts of care, agency, and haunting, the politics of victimhood entangle people who identify as victims, researchers, and transitional justice professionals. Krystalli shows how victimhood becomes a pillar of reimagining the state in the wake of war, and of bringing a vision of that state into being through bureaucratic encounters.

Victims --- Social justice --- Feminist theory --- victim, bureaucracy, victimhood, politics, feminist methodology, transitional justice, Colombia, state

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Examines the ideology of sacrifice in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, analyzing a range of fictional and real-life figures who became part of a pantheon of heroes 'primarily because of their victimhood.'

Political culture --- Idealism --- Heroes --- Social aspects --- Mythology --- Soviet Union --- Russia (Federation) --- Intellectual life. --- Heroism --- Persons --- Antiheroes --- Apotheosis --- Courage --- Animism --- Monism --- Personalism --- Philosophy --- Positivism --- Dualism --- Materialism --- Realism --- Transcendentalism --- Intellectual life --- Russian culture. --- Russian media. --- Soviet culture. --- Soviet ideology. --- contemporary culture. --- cultural analysis. --- cultural influence. --- cultural symbolism. --- cultural transformation. --- martyrdom. --- nationalist nostalgia. --- political discourse. --- post-Soviet culture. --- post-Soviet discourses. --- sacrifice ideology. --- sacrificial language. --- victimhood.

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In recent years it has become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of 'ethnic' Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has accompanied this trend. Sebald's 'The Air War and Literature' and Grass's 'Crabwalk' are key texts, but there are many others; the great majority seek not to revise German responsibility for the Holocaust but to balance German victimhood and German perpetration. This book of essays is the first in English to examine closely the variety of these texts. An opening section on the 1950s - a decade of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the focus shifted to German perpetration - provides context, drawing parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written since the mid-1990s shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on perpetration and victimhood, on 'ordinary Germans,' and on the balance between historical empathy and condemnation. Contributors: Karina Berger, Elizabeth Boa, Stephen Brockmann, David Clarke, Mary Cosgrove, Rick Crownshaw, Helen Finch, Frank Finlay, Katharina Hall, Colette Lawson, Caroline Schaumann, Helmut Schmitz, Kathrin Schödel, and Stuart Taberner. Stuart Taberner is professor of contemporary German literature, culture, and society, and Karina Berger, B.A., M.St., is a Ph.D. candidate, both at the University of Leeds, UK.

German literature --- Germans in literature. --- Victims in literature. --- World War, 1939-1945 --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism --- World War, 1939-1945, in literature --- 20th century. --- Allied Bombing Campaign. --- Allied bombing campaign. --- Balance. --- Contemporary Debates. --- Expulsions. --- German Literary Fiction. --- German Perpetration. --- German Responsibility. --- German Victimhood. --- German literary fiction. --- Holocaust. --- Internment. --- Mass Rapes. --- Persecution. --- Postwar Germany. --- Second World War. --- World War II. --- expulsions. --- internment. --- mass rapes. --- perpetration. --- persecution. --- victims.

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Diaspora, considered as a context for insights into Jewish identity, brings together a lively, interdisciplinary group of scholars in this innovative volume. Readers needn't expect, however, to find easy agreement on what those insights are. The concept "diaspora" itself has proved controversial; galut, the traditional Hebrew expression for the Jews' perennial condition, is better translated as "exile." The very distinction between diaspora and exile, although difficult to analyze, is important enough to form the basis of several essays in this fine collection."Iden tity" is an even more elusive concept. The contributors to Diasporas and Exiles explore Jewish identity-or, more accurately, Jewish identities-from the mutually illuminating perspectives of anthropology, art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, German history, philosophy, political theory, and sociology. These contributors bring exciting new emphases to Jewish and cultural studies, as well as the emerging field of diaspora studies. Diasporas and Exiles mirrors the richness of experience and the attendant virtual impossibility of definition that constitute the challenge of understanding Jewish identity.

Jews --- Jewish diaspora --- Civilization, Jewish --- Jewish civilization --- Civilization, Semitic --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Diaspora, Jewish --- Galuth --- Human geography --- Civilization. --- Identity. --- History. --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Diaspora --- Migrations --- acculturation. --- adversity. --- affliction. --- alien. --- antisemitism. --- arab. --- assimilation. --- belonging. --- concentration camps. --- diaspora. --- ethnicity. --- exile. --- france. --- genocide. --- germany. --- hans tietze. --- heine. --- holocaust. --- homeland. --- identity. --- israel. --- jew. --- jewish community. --- jewish identity. --- jewish life. --- jewish migration. --- jewry. --- jews as victims. --- judaica. --- judaism. --- middle east. --- nonfiction. --- palestine. --- philanthropy. --- refugees. --- religion. --- religious communities. --- religious difference. --- religious identity. --- rite. --- ritual. --- suffering. --- tradition. --- victimhood. --- vienna. --- zion.

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Some social issues and practices have become dangerous areas for academics to research and write about. ‘Academic freedom’ is increasingly constrained, not just by long established ‘normal’ factors (territoriality, power differentials, competition, protectionism), but also by the increased significance of social media and the rise of identity politics (and activists who treat work which challenges their world view as abusive hate-speech). So extreme are these pressures that some institutions and even statutory bodies now adopt policies and practices which contravene relevant regulations and laws. This book seeks to draw attention to the limiting and damaging effects of academic ‘gagging’. The book, drawn from a special edition of Societies, offers an eclectic series of international articles which may annoy some people. The book challenges taken for granted mainstream assumptions and practices in a number of areas, including gender mainstreaming, social work education, child sexual abuse, the ethnic disaggregation of population groups, fatherhood and masculinity, the erosion of democratic legitimacy, the trap of victimhood and vulnerability, employment practices in universities, and the challenges presented by the widespread and deliberate suppression of scholarship and research. In an analytic postscript Laurent Dubreuil discusses the nature of identity politics and the manner in which its effects can be identified across the many topics covered in these challenging articles.

Early Childhood Education and Care --- child sexual abuse --- prevention policies --- no touch --- teacher–child relationships --- male childcare workers --- stigma --- discrimination --- fear --- panopticon --- moral panic --- Brazilian academia --- interviewing for faculty positions --- Lattes CV --- meritocracy --- criminalisation --- harm --- law --- criminal justice --- freedom --- risk --- abuse --- liberal --- victim --- vulnerability --- critical thinking --- identity politics --- academic freedom --- free speech --- victimhood --- anti-discriminatory practice --- neoliberalism --- shadow management --- new public management --- ombudsman --- rule of law --- transparency --- higher education --- body journal --- Coronavirus --- corporal identity --- narratives --- pandemic --- parenthood --- clan --- academic taboo --- Sweden --- state --- postcolonialism --- research methods --- disparity --- disaggregating data --- Asian Americans --- disability --- mental health --- model minority myth --- free inquiry --- censorship --- conformity --- moral panics --- witch hunts --- heresy --- gender mainstreaming --- Lehrfreiheit --- university autonomy --- UNESCO