Victimhood Nationalism - History and Memory in a Global Age

In this theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich book, Jie-Hyun Lim offers a new way to understand nationalism and its political instrumentalization of suffering, developing the concept of "victimhood nationalism" and exploring it in a range of global settings.

List of contents

Preface
1. Mnemohistory
2. Genealogy
3. Sublimation
4. Globalization
5. Nationalization
6. Dehistoricization
7. Overhistoricization
8. Juxtaposition
9. Denial
10. Forgiveness
Coda: Beyond Mnemonic Eurocentrism
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Jie-Hyun Lim is the CIPSH Chairholder of Global Easts, Distinguished Professor, and founding director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University. In 2025-2026, he is the Class of 1955 Visiting Professor in Global Studies at Williams College. His many books include Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing (Columbia, 2022).

Summary

In this theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich book, Jie-Hyun Lim offers a new way to understand nationalism and its political instrumentalization of suffering, developing the concept of “victimhood nationalism” and exploring it in a range of global settings.

Product details

• Authors: Jie-Hyun Lim, Lim Jie-Hyun
• Assisted by: Megan Sungyoon (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.03.2025
• EAN: 9780231216883
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21688-3
• No. of pages: 456
• Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Europe, European History, Asia, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / World, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Asian History, General and world history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General