Band 19 Victimhood and Acknowledgement

book: Band 19 Victimhood and Acknowledgement

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2018

Band 19 Victimhood and Acknowledgement

The Other Side of Terrorism

Edited by: Petra Terhoeven

Part of the multi-volume work Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte / European History Yearbook

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110581508

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About this book

The history of terrorism has been largely a history of perpetrators, their motives and actions. The history of their victims has always seemed to be of secondary importance. But terrorism is communication by violence, and its efficiency depends significantly on the selection and the treatment of the victims by the perpetrators, on the one hand, and the perception and acknowledgement of victimhood by the public, on the other. How does it affect our picture of the history of terrorism then, if the victims are moved centre stage? If the focus is put on their suffering, their agency, their helplessness, or on how they are acknowledged or exploited by society, politics and media? If the central role is taken into account which they play in terrorist propaganda as well as in the emotional response of the public? The contributions to this edition of the European History Yearbook will examine such questions in a broad range of historical case studies and methods, including visual history. Not least, they aim at historicizing the roles of survivors and relatives in the social process of coming to terms with terrorist violence, a question highly relevant up to the present day.

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Petra Terhoeven, Georg-August-University Göttingen

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Victimhood and Acknowledgement: The Other Side of Terrorism Petra Terhoeven Open Access Download PDF	1
Of Heroes and Villains – The Making of Terrorist Victims as Historical Perpetrators in Pre-Revolutionary Russia Anke Hilbrenner Open Access Download PDF	19
Suffering, Victims and Survivors in the Northern Ireland Conflict: Definitions, Policies, and Politics Marie Breen-Smyth Open Access Download PDF	39
Reconciliation through Agonistic Engagement? Victims and Former Perpetrators in Dialogue in Italy Several Decades after Terrorism Anna Cento Bull Open Access Download PDF	59
“May the burden of your ordeal gradually fade from memory”: Dealings with former Hostages of the Hijacked Lufthansa Aircraft ‘Landshut’ Florian Jessensky and Martin Rupps Open Access Download PDF	77
In Whose Name? Visualizing Victims of Terror Charlotte Klonk Open Access Download PDF	103
Conclusions Petra Terhoeven Open Access Download PDF	117
Forum
Making and Unmaking Socialist Modernities: Seven Interventions into the Writing of Contemporary History on Central and Eastern Europe Gregor Feindt Open Access Download PDF	133
A Collapsing Migratory Regime? The Map of the Migration Period and Its Iconology at the Beginning of the 21st Century Tillmann Lohse Open Access Download PDF	155
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	171

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 172

eBook

Published: October 22, 2018
ISBN: 9783110581508

Paperback

Published: October 22, 2018
ISBN: 9783110578447