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9780271052427 Academic Inspection Copy

The Violence of Victimhood

  • ISBN-13: 9780271052427
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Diane Enns
  • Price: AUD $148.00
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2012
  • Format: Hardback 248 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: linguistics [CF]
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Analyzes current understandings of victimhood in discussions of child soldiers, identity politics, violent conflict, and global responses to atrocity.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Good Other

2 When Victims Become Killers

3 Indelible Wounds

4 Arendt in Jerusalem

5 To Kill or Be Killed

6 Mercy for the Merciless

7 Lay Down Your Arms

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“This is an important book. It is an urgent book. In language at once analytic and passionate, Diane Enns confronts the cult of ‘otherness’—without denying the truths to which it points—and substitutes for it a universal ethic of nonviolent action, without denying the complexities it involves. For those seeking building blocks for solidarity in our age, The Violence of Victimhood is an essential read.”

—Todd May, Clemson University

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