Introduction: Understanding the Construction of Victimhood and the Evolving Role of Victims in Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding

Druliolle, Vincent; Brett, Roddy

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70202-5_1

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“…Generally speaking, victimhood can come in three forms: (1) legal (experiencing some criminal injustice), (2) socio-cultural (a group being systematically mistreated), and (3) self-defined (Druliolle and Brett 2018). In politics, each of these types of victims exist.…”

Section: Victimhood As Perceptionmentioning

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‘Why Me?’ The Role of Perceived Victimhood in American Politics

Armaly

Enders

2021

Polit Behav

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Despite growing recognition among journalists and political pundits, the concept of victimhood has been largely ignored in empirical social science research. In this article, we develop a theory about, and use unique nationally-representative survey data to estimate, two manifestations of victimhood: an egocentric one entailing only perceptions of one's own victimhood, and one focused on blaming "the system." We find that these manifestations of victimhood cut across partisan, ideological, and sociodemographic lines, suggesting that feelings of victimhood are confined to neither "actual" victims nor those partisans on the losing side of elections. Moreover, both manifestations of victimhood, while related to candidate support and various racial attitudes, prove to be distinct from related psychological constructs, such as (collective) narcissism, system justification, and relative deprivation. Finally, an experiment based on candidate rhetoric demonstrates that some political messaging can make supporters feel like victims, which has consequences for subsequent attitudes and behavior.

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Section: Victimhood As Perceptionmentioning

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‘Why Me?’ The Role of Perceived Victimhood in American Politics

Armaly

Enders

2021

Polit Behav

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“…Importantly, which memories are forgotten or silenced is thus a deeply political issue. Collective memory in post-genocide settings can be particularly fraught with controversy and narratives structuring memory of this past are especially contested (Björkdahl et al, 2017; Buckley-Zistel and Schäfer, 2014: 4) due to the legitimacy that they can provide for political power in the present (Druliolle and Brett, 2018; Sodaro, 2018).…”

Section: Complexity and Silences In The Politics Of Post-genocide Memorymentioning

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“…Should bystanders’ actions be understood as culpable or passive? The concept of mnemonic role attributions is particularly useful as it draws attention explicitly to the legitimacy claims that are implicit in the attribution of roles and the moral connotations they have, with attributions of victimhood affording moral legitimacy (Bonacker, 2013; Druliolle and Brett, 2018; McEvoy and McConnachie, 2013) and attributions of perpetration leading to a demonisation and de-legitimisation of an individual or group.…”

Section: Complexity and Silences In The Politics Of Post-genocide Memorymentioning

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Remembering and silencing complexity in post-genocide memorialisation: Cambodia’s Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Williams

2021

Memory Studies

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In genocide, complex political actors can take on changing roles of perpetrator, victim or hero at different points in time. In post-genocide societies, political actors seek to shape memory of the violent past to forward their own interests, often undermining this complexity and painting a more black-and-white picture that ties in with Transitional Justice practitioners’ dichotomous assumptions about perpetrators and victims. This article looks at how complexity is remembered and silenced in a post-genocide memorial space that included many complex political actors during its tenure as a security centre: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia. Here, the audio guide and permanent and temporary exhibitions (as well as changes to these) allow for a co-existence of competing memories, demonising the Khmer Rouge regime for its immense cruelty and simultaneously constructing victimhood for former Khmer Rouge cadres. This could serve as a starting point for discussing complexity, but instead silences in the exhibitions and audio guide create an ambivalence in attributing these roles that masks this complexity.

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“…Categories of victimhood are also appropriated and repoliticized by affected stakeholders, as demonstrated by the rise of victims' organizations. Here, private suffering is turned into collective public action that deindividualizes victimhood and molds it according to externally established legal formulations while, at the same time, increasing victims' chances to access reparation (Druliolle and Brett 2018).…”

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Bolotta

2020

Humanitarianism: Keywords

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Introduction: Understanding the Construction of Victimhood and the Evolving Role of Victims in Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding

Cited by 15 publications

References 32 publications

‘Why Me?’ The Role of Perceived Victimhood in American Politics

‘Why Me?’ The Role of Perceived Victimhood in American Politics

Remembering and silencing complexity in post-genocide memorialisation: Cambodia’s Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

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