{"product_id":"wronged-lilie-chouliaraki-9780231193283","title":"Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2025 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCo-Winner, 2025 Best Book Award from the Philosophy, Theory, and Critique Division of the International Communication Association\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy is being a victim such a potent identity today? Who claims to be a victim, and why? How have such claims changed in the past century? Who benefits and who loses from the struggles over victimhood in public culture? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this timely and incisive book, Lilie Chouliaraki shows how claiming victimhood is about claiming power: who deserves to be protected as a victim and who should be punished as a perpetrator. She argues that even though victimhood has long been used to excuse violence and hierarchy, social media platforms and far-right populism have turned victimhood into a weapon of the privileged. Drawing on recent examples such as the overturning of \u003ci\u003eRoe v. Wade\u003c\/i\u003e, movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, and the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as historical ones from the major wars of the twentieth century and the Civil Rights Movement, \u003ci\u003eWronged\u003c\/i\u003e reveals why claims of victimization are so effective at reinforcing instead of alleviating inequalities of class, gender, and race. Unless we come to recognize the suffering of the vulnerable for what it is--a matter not of victimhood but of injustice--Chouliaraki powerfully warns, the culture of victimhood will continue to perpetuate old exclusions and enable further injuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lilie Chouliaraki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231193289\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231193283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d","brand":"Lilie Chouliaraki","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48453298749695,"sku":"9780231193283","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c08cb97f-3379-4ddc-a00c-86819fd37477.jpg?v=1777299421","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wronged-lilie-chouliaraki-9780231193283","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}