Good victims : the political as a feminist question / Roxani Krystalli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krystalli, Roxani, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in gender and international relations.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in gender and international relations

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Victims--Colombia.

Victims.

Social justice--Colombia.

Social justice.

Feminist theory--Colombia.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The Political as a (Feminist) Question

Making Victims: Histories of Violence and Bureaucracies in Colombia

Living Ethics and Methods as Questions: Dilemmas of Narrating Victimhood

Making the (Good) State: Bureaucrats of Victimhood

Victim Professionals and Professionalised Victims

'Victim' as Distinction

The Future of Victimhood.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 14, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-776455-X

0-19-776457-6

OCLC:

1421944648