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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"Victimhood"”.
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The Voices of Victimhood and Survivorship
… throughout the person's life. Experiences of victimhood and survivorship prove challengingly intangible in a discursive landscape of denial, appropriation, invalidation, and dismissal. The Voices of Victimhood and Survivorship takes the firsthand testaments of selected victims and survivors of …
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Rhetoric and victimhood in Northern Ireland
This thesis explores post-conflict victimhood as it manifests itself in Northern Ireland. While extensive research has been carried out into the subject, most research in psychology considers victimhood to be a cognitive or perhaps a clinical phenomenon. This thesis proposes that victimhood is …
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The Politics of Victimhood and Representation in Crime Literature
… project investigates representations of victimhood across the genres of crime fiction and true crime literature through case studies that illuminate the intersection of identity, representations of victimhood, and audiences’ understandings of victimhood. As Rebecca Wanzo argues in The …
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Rethinking Child Trafficking in Nepal: Victimhood, Agency and Beyond
… The simultaneous use of two frameworks – the ‘victimhood’ and ‘agency’ approaches – has resulted in conflicting conceptualisations of trafficking vulnerabilities and variations in practices. The thesis suggests that it is crucial to rethink the child trafficking phenomenon and the approaches to …
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The Construction of Victimhood in Human Trafficking Intervention Courts
… and how do legal systems, such as courts, shape victimhood for both the institution and the individual? To answer these questions, I draw from broader theories regarding interpretivism, victimology, labeling theory, social constructionism, feminist institutionalism and criminology, carceral …
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Trauma, Memory and Victimhood: Estonia and the Holocaust, 1998-2012
… position in terms of reconciling their nation's victimhood status and the demands of the international community, which seeks an honest and open discussion about the meaning of the Holocaust in Estonia. This paper will highlight and analyse this conflict through a study of political memory found …
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Negotiating Jewish victimhood at Majdanek: reluctant communists, political flux, and Nazi guilt
This thesis explores how questions of Jewish victimhood at the Nazi concentration and death camp Majdanek were negotiated by Poles and Soviets during the immediate post-liberation period in Lublin from July to October, 1944. After liberating eastern Poland, the Soviets established the Polish …
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The Cultural Memory Of German Victimhood In Post-1990 Popular German Literature And Television
<p>My dissertation analyzes the representation of Germans as victims of the Third Reich and the Second World War in post-1990 German memory. After unification, there no longer were two states that could each blame the other as the heir of National Socialism and this past had to be renegotiated. The …
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The feminisation of poverty and victimhood in Dangarembga's print oeuvre: Cyclical evocations of nervous conditions, survival, and agency
… Dangarembga’s oeuvre, mainly focusing on the victimhood, cyclical evocations of nervous conditions, survival strategies and agency that Zimbabwean women experienced and are still experiencing. This dissertation employed a qualitative desktop literary in the examination of four novels, Nervous …
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Contesting Victimhood: A Linguistic and Legal Anthropological Analysis of Defendant Experiences in New York’s Human Trafficking Intervention Courts
… this paper explores the contestation of victimhood in HTICs by focusing on the experiences of defendants and how they are perceived by the police, judges, and other agents of the HTICs. Before entering the HTICs, defendants are perceived as criminals as shown by the justification and …
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Q’eqchi’ being and being a Víctima Q’eqchi’ : citizenship, victimhood, and personhood as sites of discipline and resistance in Guatemalan reparations politics
… Program of Guatemala, a political economy of victimhood is created in which victim-survivors must perform their memories and personhood in particular ways in order to gain recognition from the State. I evaluate Q’eqchi’ victim-survivors’ experiences of the limits of this process from the …
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Victimhood as a driving force in the intractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: reflections on collective memory, conflict ethos, and collective emotional orientations.
… intractable conflicts the feelings and claims of victimhood are as mature and well-entrenched as the conflict itself. The longer a conflict is waged, the more the geopolitical reasons for victimisation shift to the psychological. This gradually blurs the difference between facts and perceptions, …
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Beyond dichotomies. The quest for justice and reconciliation and the politics of national identity building in post-genocide Rwanda.
… conducted for this study revealed that issues of victimhood, justice and reconciliation were highly contested among individuals and groups with varied experiences of the country¿s violent history. Resolving these conflicting narratives so that each Rwandan¿s narrative/identity is dissociated from …
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Beyond dichotomies. The quest for justice and reconciliation and the politics of national identity building in post-genocide Rwanda.
… conducted for this study revealed that issues of victimhood, justice and reconciliation were highly contested among individuals and groups with varied experiences of the country¿s violent history. Resolving these conflicting narratives so that each Rwandan¿s narrative/identity is dissociated from …
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NON-TRADITIONAL TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE MECHANISMS AND PERCEPTIONS AND SYMPTOMS OF VICTIMIZATION AMONG DIASPORIC INDIVIDUALS: MEMBERS OF THE COPTIC CHRISTIAN DIASPORA IN THE UNITED STATES AS A CASE STUDY
… of restored relationships on self-classified victimhood and experienced symptoms of victimization, the study uses contact theory and intergroup interaction theory. The study also depends on legitimacy theory to study the ways in which government officials use judicial and non-judicial measures …
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W.G. Sebald’s Luftkrieg und Literatur: German literature and the allied bombings of German cities in World War II
… moment in the discourse surrounding 'German victimhood' in representations of the bombings and the expulsions of ethnic Germans from the Eastern territories.
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Remembering Danzig and Reclaiming Gdańsk
… Danzigers, resulting in their own versions of victimhood.</p>
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Picnic in the abattoir
… years within horror tropes and ontologies of "victimhood," but also broach new topics for me, like the influence of film on ways of seeing and understanding the world and the paradoxical intertwining of fascination and aversion within the viewing experience.
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Afterlives: resurrecting the South African border war
… resonates with broader issues of the role of “victimhood” in South Africa’s national identity in the aftermath of Apartheid.
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Making Victims: History, Memory, and Literature In Japan's Post-War Social Imaginary
… from the "military," universalizing atomic victimhood, and stressing the suffering of innocent victims, literature acted as a national <em>Bildungsroman</em>, and the victim's consciousness became an integral part of the post-war imaginary. Though contested, and not always the dominant …
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