Good victims

• Verfasst von: Krystalli, Roxani [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Good victims
• Titelzusatz: the political as a feminist question
• Verf.angabe: Roxani Krystalli
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford studies in gender and international relations
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online : Political Science
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-19-776457-2
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197764534.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: True Crime
• Sach-SW: Social services & welfare, criminology
• K10plus-PPN: 1892271427
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

As of 2023, over nine million Colombians have secured official recognition as victims of an armed conflict that has lasted decades. The category of 'victim' is not a mere description of having suffered harm, but a political status and a potential site of power. In this book, Roxani Krystalli investigates the politics of victimhood as a feminist question. Based on in-depth engagement in Colombia over the course of a decade, Krystalli argues for the possibilities of politics through, rather than in opposition to, the status of 'victim'. Encompassing acts of care, agency, and haunting, the politics of victimhood entangle people who identify as victims, researchers, and transitional justice professionals. Krystalli shows how victimhood becomes a pillar of reimagining the state in the wake of war, and of bringing a vision of that state into being through bureaucratic encounters.