Histories of Victimhood

Steffen Jensen is Senior Researcher at Dignity: Danish Institute Against Torture. He is the author of Gangs, Politics and Dignity in Cape Town and coeditor (with Andrew Jefferson) of State Violence and Human Rights: State Officials in the South. Henrik Ronsbo is Senior Researcher at Dignity: Danish Institute Against Torture and has published many articles on the effects of violence and civil wars in Latin America.

About the author

Steffen Jensen is Senior Researcher at Dignity: Danish Institute Against Torture. He is the author of Gangs, Politics and Dignity in Cape Town and coeditor (with Andrew Jefferson) of State Violence and Human Rights: State Officials in the South. Henrik Ronsbo is Senior Researcher at Dignity: Danish Institute Against Torture and has published many articles on the effects of violence and civil wars in Latin America.

Summary

This volume of original essays tackles the dilemmas surrounding the ways in which victims and victimhood are socially, politically, and culturally constructed, asking: How do we recognize and acknowledge suffering without objectifying affected communities and individuals?

Product details

• Authors: Steffen (EDT)/ Ronsbo Jensen, Steffen Ronsbo Jensen
• Assisted by: Steffen Jensen (Editor), Henrik Ronsbo (Editor)
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2014
• EAN: 9780812245851
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4585-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Ethnography of Political Viole; The Ethnography of Political Violence; Ethnography of Political Viole; The Ethnography of Political Violence; Histories of Victimhood
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education