The Aggressive Victim: The Dual Notion of the Political Representation of Suffering Cover Image

Az agresszív áldozat. A szenvedés politikai reprezentációjának kettős fogalma
The Aggressive Victim: The Dual Notion of the Political Representation of Suffering

Author(s): Zsolt K. Horváth
Subject(s): Cultural history, Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: politics of representation; politics of trauma; critical sociology of politics of recognition

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the process in which historical and sociological research on the victims of genocide in the 20th century was transformed and, increasingly, appropriated by the political field. For what purpose was this appropriation mobilized and how did this process somehow empty scholarly research? Isolating the dual notion of the political representation of suffering, the article seeks to find an approach with which the political issue of the subject must be emphasized, just to get out of the trap constructed by politics.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 64-69
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Hungarian
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