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Victims: Perceptions of Harm in Modern European War and Violence (The History and Theory of International Law) - Hardcover

Goltermann, Svenja

 
9780192897725: Victims: Perceptions of Harm in Modern European War and Violence (The History and Theory of International Law)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0192897721 ISBN 13: 9780192897725
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2024

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Svenja Goltermann, Professor of Modern History, University of Zurich

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 of memory cultures, and the history of knowledge. She has published widely on these subjects, including the award-winning book The War in Their Minds: German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West Germany (2017), first published in German in 2009. Her most recent monograph dealt with changing perception of victimhood (2017). She is currently working on a book-length project that explores the broadening of the understanding of violence in Western Europe since the 1960s to trace the genealogies of this recent phenomenon and to reveal its effects.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0192897721
ISBN 13 
9780192897725
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
224