Story-telling as memorialisation: suffering, resilience and victim identities

Green, Simon T.; Kondor, Katherine; Kidd, Alicia

Abstract

All rights reserved. Is there a relationship between story-telling and memorialisation in the construction of victim identities? This paper seeks to examine these questions and shed light on the cultural dynamics of victimisation with reference to examples from sociological theories of late modernity and empirical research with people who self-identify as victims. Using examples from recent biographic interviews with an asylum seeker fleeing conflict in Gaza and two Hungarian radical right activists, the argument will be that victim identities are constructed and reconstructed through the development of personal and mediatised narratives about suffering and resilience.

Citation

Green, S. T., Kondor, K., & Kidd, A. (in press). Story-telling as memorialisation: suffering, resilience and victim identities. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 10(3), 563-583. https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1122

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 7, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Jun 1, 2020
• Deposit Date: Mar 5, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 10, 2020
• Journal: Oñati Socio-legal Series; Practices of Memorialization and the Process of Social Reconstruction
• Print ISSN: 2079-5971
• Publisher: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 563-583
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1122
• Keywords: Victims; narrative; late modernity; Hungary; Gaza; story-telling
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/3457371
• Publisher URL: http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1096