Competitive Victimhood in Czechia and Germany: The Struggle for the Acknowledgment
Activity: Talk or presentation at external institutions/events › Talk/Presentation › Contributed
Persons and affiliations
- Klára Pinerová - , Chair of Totalitarianism Studies (g.B. Hannah Arendt Institute of Research in Totalitarianism) (Speaker)
Date
4 Sept 2024
Description
The aim of the paper was to analyze how victimhood was constructed in both countries, whether and how competition between different groups of victims of state socialism was created, what form the struggle for victimhood took and what role the victim organizations played in it. The paper also analysed te extent to which victim organizations have been successful and unsuccessful in promoting their view of victimhood. Last but not least, the goal of this paper was to study whether the same processes of construction of victimhood took place in both countries and I will clarify the factors and reasons for different developments.Conference
| Title | Victimhood – Acknowledgement – Politics of Memory |
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| Subtitle | Struggling over the Memory of Suffering |
| Duration | 3 - 5 September 2024 |
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| Degree of recognition | International event |
| Location | Technische Universität Dresden |
| City | Dresden |
| Country | Germany |
Keywords
Research priority areas of TU Dresden
DFG Classification of Subject Areas according to Review Boards
Subject groups, research areas, subject areas according to Destatis
Sustainable Development Goals
Keywords
- Victimhood, Victim organisation, Communism, Czech republic, Germany