“Today, I Want to Speak Out the Truth”: Victim Agency, Responsibility, and Transitional Justice

Baines, Erin

doi:10.1111/ips.12100

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“…Baines, 2015). Even if the boy does not articulate it explicitly, he was quite clearly aware that in a shopping queue adults do not accidentally bypass children because of their invisibility and that children's small size is not the reason why salespersons may serve them unfairly.…”

Section: Participantmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shaping subjects in everyday encounters: Intergenerational recognition in intersubjective socialisation

Kallio

2016

Environ Plan D

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Abstract:This article considers the role of intergenerational recognition in processes of subject formation and political development. It leans on a broad conception of politics, following a phenomenologically oriented approach and drawing from theories of contextual recognition. Intergenerational recognition is introduced as a key dynamism and practice in intersubjective socialisation, unfolding in everyday environments among 'significant others'. In these encounters, people take shape and are shaped as political subjects.Empirically, the paper is based on research with 129 eleven-to fifteen-year-old girls and boys, including an analysis of their place-based biographies. By introducing different forms of intergenerational (mis)recognition, it shows how the formation of political subjects takes place in the most mundane environments where children and young people lead their lives. In conclusion, the paper suggests that 'political becoming' deserves increasing attention in critical research and intergenerational recognition ought to be better identified as a social practice. Whether intentional or intuitive, the ways in which adults regard children and young people has both harmful and beneficial effects on the formation of their political subjectivities.

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Section: Participantmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shaping subjects in everyday encounters: Intergenerational recognition in intersubjective socialisation

Kallio

2016

Environ Plan D

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“…To me, refraining from talking about these agencies does not appear as an adequate option. I agree with Baines (2015) in that the attempts to silence people's agencies in precarious positions comes to strengthen the idea of victimized people at the mercy of others. As I see it, the acknowledgement of emotion-laden intergenerational agency, in particular, in these stressful situations insists on less individualistic refugee policies and practices.…”

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Leading refugee lives together: Familial agency as a political capacity

Kallio¹

2019

Emotion, Space and Society

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Family life is constituted by affective relationships and emotional bonds between individuals connected through kinship, yet in many cases involving people from beyond the lineal descent group as well. In precarious migratory processes and situations, the significance of these relations often grows. Even if put under increased pressure, they encompass important resources that individuals alone could not possess. Then again, for some people certain familial relations are part of the problematized life situation, challenging rather than reinforcing their personal agency. This paper explores political dimensions of refugee agency and discusses how mundane familial political agency is acquired and practiced in refugee situations. Specifically, analyzed are intimate relationships as unfolding in some young male refugees' transnational lives, as personal and shared experiences and practices. The paper takes notice of conflicted familial relations, too, to create a better understanding about the manifoldness of intergenerational political agencies. Drawing from interviews with Iraqi, Afghan and Somali refugees, it demonstrates how familial agency is irreducible to the personal agencies of family members yet does not exist beyond subjective stances. In conclusion, the paper proposes that familial mundane politics remain poorly noticed in refugee situations, which harmfully effects on the humanitarian aid system as well as refugee lives.

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“…In discussing refugeeness as a performance, we do not subscribe to an individualistic or a 'substantialist' conception of subjecthood and agency because "'subjects' do not already exist prior to acts; the performance of acts through actions bring them into being" (Isin 2012, 129;see also Isin 2009;Zanotti 2013;Kallio 2016). On the contrary, we see subjectivity as a processual notion that highlights the relational and contextual constitution of the subject (Young 1990;Vacchelli 2011;Häkli 2013;Häkli and Kallio 2014;Baines 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The paper is based on the analysis of interviews carried out with asylum seekers in January 2015 in Cairo, a city that hosts one of the biggest UNHCR operations in North-Africa and the Middle East. In discussing how those who are not entitled to 'prima facie' refugee status find themselves and perform as refugees in need of help from aid organizations, the paper leans on an experience-based understanding of political agency (Bayat 2010;McNay 2014;Baines 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%