Good Victims
The Political as a Feminist Question
Series: Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 August 2024
- ISBN 9780197764541
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 235x157x16 mm
- Weight 395 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 b/w halftones 533
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Short description:
In Good Victims, 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 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. The book also sheds light on the ethical and methodological dilemmas that arise when contemplating the legacies of transitional justice mechanisms.
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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 Good Victims, 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. Good Victims also sheds light on the ethical and methodological dilemmas that arise when contemplating the legacies of transitional justice mechanisms.
Roxani Krystalli always makes me re-think. Here she innovatively uses ethnographic skills to deepen our understanding of who creates post-war hierarchies of victims--and how they go about doing it--and why. Krystalli shows us what feminist IR can reveal not only in Colombia, but in Rwanda, Bosnia and Ukraine.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: The Political as a (Feminist) Question
Chapter 2: Making Victims: Histories of Violence and Bureaucracies in Colombia
Chapter 3: Living Ethics and Methods as Questions: Dilemmas of Narrating Victimhood
Chapter 4: Making the (Good) State: Bureaucrats of Victimhood
Chapter 5: Victim Professionals and Professionalised Victims
Chapter 6: "Victim" as Distinction
Chapter 7: The Future of Victimhood
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