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Victims: Perceptions of Harm in Modern European War and Violence
Victimhood has become a shorthand for any injustice suffered. Adopting a history of knowledge approach, Victims takes a fresh look at this phenomenon of classifying people as victims. It goes beyond existing narratives to provide a new and comprehensive explanation of the complex genealogy of modern concepts of victimhood.
| Author(s) | By Svenja Goltermann (Professor of Modern History, Professor of Modern History, University of Zurich). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 224 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 9 Nov 2023 |
| Availability | Not yet available |
Victimhood has become a shorthand for any injustice suffered. Adopting a history of knowledge approach, Victims takes a fresh look at this phenomenon of classifying people as victims. It goes beyond existing narratives to provide a new and comprehensive explanation of the complex genealogy of modern concepts of victimhood.
Svenja Goltermann is Professor of Modern History at the Department of History at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses primarily on the history of violence, the history of changing conceptions of suffering, vulnerability, and trauma, the history
