Introduction to special issue: the logic of victimhood
Chouliaraki, L.
& Banet-Weiser, S.
(2021).
Introduction to special issue: the logic of victimhood.
European Journal of Cultural Studies,
24(1), 3 - 9.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549420985846
& Banet-Weiser, S.
(2021).
Introduction to special issue: the logic of victimhood.
European Journal of Cultural Studies,
24(1), 3 - 9.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549420985846
This special issue aims to identify the social and affective dynamics that circulate and attach to the ‘master’ signifier of victimhood in liberal public spheres. Drawing on cutting-edge work by leading scholars across theoretical traditions, the issue illuminates the ways in which victimhood emerges as a dominant communicative logic in three distinct but interrelated domains of liberal publicity: its histories, politics and aesthetics.
