Constructions of victimhood: remembering the victims of state socialism in Germany
- Submitting institution
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Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 97014994
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-030-04804-4
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783030048037
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book (pp.319) is an innovative, interdisciplinary study of the construction of victimhood in the politics of memory and transitional justice. It covers a wide range of issues relating to the construction of victimhood in the case of state socialism in Germany, including questions of victim identity, compensation legislation and memorial museums. Its case studies draw on sixty years’ worth of material, often from previously neglected archival sources and historical publications. It offers a sustained and original engagement with Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory and develops this theory in the context of memory politics and transitional justice.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- A small section of this 319 page book, (specifically, chapter 4, pp. 145-181) builds on material published in the last cycle that was revised and updated for the book: Clarke, D. 2012. Compensating the victims of human rights abuses in the German democratic republic: The struggle for recognition. German Politics 21(1), pp. 17-33.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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