Description: Wronged : The Weaponization of Victimhood, Hardcover by Chouliaraki, Lilie, ISBN 0231193289, ISBN-13 9780231193283, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 incisiv, 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 #MeToo 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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Book Title: Wronged : The Weaponization of Victimhood
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Name: Wronged : the Weaponization of Victimhood
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2024
Subject: Feminism & Feminist Theory, Media Studies, Sociology / General, History & Theory
Item Weight: 14 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Lilie Chouliaraki
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
