{"title":"Contested Victimhood of a “Virgin Terrorist”","authors":"Sungju Park-Kang","doi":"10.1086/721560","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"T his article explores the role of narrative in the construction of victimhood. It suggests that victimhood is a social construct, rather than a fi xed entity. The paper also investigates the gendered nature of victimhood. This endeavor includes a study of a terrorist bombing where the line between victims and terrorists has been highly politicized. Declassi fi ed documents, media reports, academic materi-als, and a fi lm are analyzed. Against this backdrop, the paper fi rst discusses the notion and the construction process of victimhood. Then it offers background information on the case of Hyunhee Kim, or Korean Air (KAL) fl ight 858. This is followed by an examination of the contestedness of Kim ’ s claims to victimhood surrounding the case. The article as a whole contributes to studies on narrative, victimhood, gender, and security.","PeriodicalId":46912,"journal":{"name":"Polity","volume":"54 1","pages":"890 - 897"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Polity","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721560","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
T his article explores the role of narrative in the construction of victimhood. It suggests that victimhood is a social construct, rather than a fi xed entity. The paper also investigates the gendered nature of victimhood. This endeavor includes a study of a terrorist bombing where the line between victims and terrorists has been highly politicized. Declassi fi ed documents, media reports, academic materi-als, and a fi lm are analyzed. Against this backdrop, the paper fi rst discusses the notion and the construction process of victimhood. Then it offers background information on the case of Hyunhee Kim, or Korean Air (KAL) fl ight 858. This is followed by an examination of the contestedness of Kim ’ s claims to victimhood surrounding the case. The article as a whole contributes to studies on narrative, victimhood, gender, and security.
期刊介绍：
Since its inception in 1968, Polity has been committed to the publication of scholarship reflecting the full variety of approaches to the study of politics. As journals have become more specialized and less accessible to many within the discipline of political science, Polity has remained ecumenical. The editor and editorial board welcome articles intended to be of interest to an entire field (e.g., political theory or international politics) within political science, to the discipline as a whole, and to scholars in related disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. Scholarship of this type promises to be highly "productive" - that is, to stimulate other scholars to ask fresh questions and reconsider conventional assumptions.
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