The Politics of Victimhood

Biner, Zerrin Özlem; Jeffrey, L; Candea, Matei; Magalhaes, Marta Sofia de

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“…As indicated by Jeffrey and Candea (2006), a discourse of victimhood appeals to something ''nonagentive'' such as poverty and ''poses itself as the neutral or indisputable starting point from which discussion, debates, and action . .…”

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How Content Analysis may Complement and Extend the Insights of Discourse Analysis

Feltham-King

Macleod

2016

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Although discourse analysis is a well-established qualitative research methodology, little attention has been paid to how discourse analysis may be enhanced through careful supplementation with the quantification allowed in content analysis. In this article, we report on a research study that involved the use of both Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) and directed content analysis based on social constructionist theory and our qualitative research findings. The research focused on the discourses deployed, and the ways in which women were discursively positioned, in relation to abortion in 300 newspaper articles, published in 25 national and regional South African newspapers over 28 years, from 1978 to 2005. While the FDA was able to illuminate the constitutive network of power relations constructing women as subjects of a particular kind, questions emerged that were beyond the scope of the FDA. These questions concerned understanding the relative weightings of various discourses and tracing historical changes in the deployment of these discourses. In this article, we show how the decision to combine FDA and content analysis affected our sampling methodology. Using specific examples, we illustrate the contribution of the FDA to the study. Then, we indicate how subject positioning formed the link between the FDA and the content analysis. Drawing on the same examples, we demonstrate how the content analysis supplemented the FDA through tracking changes over time and providing empirical evidence of the extent to which subject positionings were deployed.

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Section: The Usefulness Of An Fda Approach In Relation To This Studymentioning

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How Content Analysis may Complement and Extend the Insights of Discourse Analysis

Feltham-King

Macleod

2016

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…Emphasis on the enemy's invisibility and evilness enables proponents of the chemtrail theory to recognize their own powerlessness as an index of innocence and victimhood (cf. Jeffery and Candea :288–291; Stewart and Harding :294) and to transform their fear into proof of knowledge about the enemy's secret tricks and weapons (Humphrey ). The activist mentioned above told me that as more people join the struggle, aerial spraying intensifies “because those behind it realize that we know, and they want to wipe us out.” She also told me that prominent international fellow activists have suffered strange accidents which she thought were designed by the “bosses” of spraying or by their accomplices.…”

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Chemtrails, Crisis, and Loss in an Interconnected World

Bakalaki¹

2016

Visual Anthropology Review

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“…Indeed, to even acknowledge the possibility of artifice in minority groups’ self‐representations can dangerously destabilize their ability to make political claims (Shryock , 286). There is a similar problem in writing anthropologically about groups that make particular political claims to victimhood, on which point Laura Jeffrey and Matei Candea have noted that there is “no comfortable mode in which to do” this; it necessarily comes from a place of “discomfort” (Jeffery and Candea , 290).…”

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Beyond cultural intimacy: The tensions that make truth for India's Ahmadi Muslims

Evans

2017

American Ethnologist

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How should anthropologists write about the public self‐presentation of minority groups? In the Indian town of Qadian, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community—a marginal group with a long history of persecution in South Asia—uses visual media to counter hostility and produce images of its members as exemplary Muslims. That such images are artificially produced is an intimate secret shared by the town's residents. Understanding this secret without undermining the political struggle that Ahmadi Muslims are engaged in means moving beyond the idea that truth must be located in either the everyday or the public. For Ahmadis in Qadian, the disjuncture between these realms is a space of possibility that reveals truth. [cultural intimacy, visual media, exemplarity, self‐representation, Ahmadiyya, Islam, India]

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The Politics of Victimhood

Cited by 41 publications

References 9 publications

How Content Analysis may Complement and Extend the Insights of Discourse Analysis

How Content Analysis may Complement and Extend the Insights of Discourse Analysis

Chemtrails, Crisis, and Loss in an Interconnected World

Beyond cultural intimacy: The tensions that make truth for India's Ahmadi Muslims

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