Good Victims
The Political as a Feminist Question
Seiten
2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-776454-1 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-776454-1 (ISBN)
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 Good Victims, 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. Good Victims also sheds light on the ethical and methodological dilemmas that arise when contemplating the legacies of transitional justice mechanisms.
In Good Victims, 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. Good Victims also sheds light on the ethical and methodological dilemmas that arise when contemplating the legacies of transitional justice mechanisms.
Roxani Krystalli is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of St Andrews. Her research and teaching focus on feminist peace and conflict studies, as well as on the politics of nature and place. Krystalli's work within and beyond the academy is aimed at understanding how people reimagine worlds in the wake of loss.
Chapter 1: The Political as a (Feminist) Question
Chapter 2: Making Victims: Histories of Violence and Bureaucracies in Colombia
Chapter 3: Living Ethics and Methods as Questions: Dilemmas of Narrating Victimhood
Chapter 4: Making the (Good) State: Bureaucrats of Victimhood
Chapter 5: Victim Professionals and Professionalised Victims
Chapter 6: "Victim" as Distinction
Chapter 7: The Future of Victimhood
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.04.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations |
| Zusatzinfo | 7 b/w halftones |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 395 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-776454-1 / 0197764541 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-776454-1 / 9780197764541 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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