Contested Victimhood of a “Virgin Terrorist”

IF 1 4区社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Polity Pub Date : 2022-08-31 DOI:10.1086/721560

Sungju Park-Kang

引用次数: 1

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.

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被质疑为“处女恐怖分子”的受害者

本文探讨了叙事在受害者身份建构中的作用。这表明受害者身份是一种社会结构，而不是一个固定的实体。本文还调查了受害者的性别性质。这项工作包括对一起恐怖爆炸案的研究，在这起爆炸案中，受害者和恐怖分子之间的界限被高度政治化了。对解密文件、媒体报道、学术材料和电影进行分析。在此背景下，本文首先探讨了被害人的概念及其建构过程。然后，它提供了金贤河（Hyunhe Kim）或大韩航空858航班的背景信息。接下来是对金关于此案受害者身份的争议性的审查。这篇文章整体上有助于研究叙事、受害者身份、性别和安全。

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Polity POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.60

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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.