Why is being a victim such a potent identity today? Who claims to be a victim, and why? How have such claims changed in the past century? Who benefits and who loses from the struggles over victimhood in public culture?
In this timely and incisive book, Lilie Chouliaraki shows how claiming victimhood is about claiming power: who deserves to be protected as a victim and who should be punished as a perpetrator. She argues that even though victimhood has long been used to excuse violence and hierarchy, social media platforms and far-right populism have turned victimhood into a weapon of the privileged. Drawing on recent examples such as the overturning of Roe v. Wade, movements like #Me Too and Black Lives Matter, and the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as historical ones from the major wars of the twentieth century and the Civil Rights Movement, Wronged reveals why claims of victimization are so effective at reinforcing instead of alleviating inequalities of class, gender, and race. Unless we come to recognize the suffering of the vulnerable for what it is—a matter not of victimhood but of injustice—Chouliaraki powerfully warns, the culture of victimhood will continue to perpetuate old exclusions and enable further injuries.
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Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Why Victimhood?
2. Who Used to Be a Victim?
3. Who Is a Victim Today?
4. How Can Victimhood Be Reclaimed?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Lilie Chouliaraki is professor in the department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics. She is the author of The Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism (Polity, 2012) and The Spectatorship of Suffering (SAGE, 2006). Her articles have been published in a variety of scholarly journals including Journalism Studies, Media Culture and Society, and Feminist Media Studies.Thêm sách điện tử từ cùng một tác giả / Biên tập viên
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