Victimhood and Acknowledgement

The history of terrorism has been largely a history of perpetrators, their motives and actions. The history of their victims has always seemed to be of secondary importance. But terrorism is communication by violence, and its efficiency depends significantly on the selection and the treatment of the victims by the perpetrators, on the one hand, and the perception and acknowledgement of victimhood by the public, on the other. How does it affect our picture of the history of terrorism then, if the victims are moved centre stage? If the focus is put on their suffering, their agency, their helplessness, or on how they are acknowledged or exploited by society, politics and media? If the central role is taken into account which they play in terrorist propaganda as well as in the emotional response of the public? The contributions to this edition of the European History Yearbook will examine such questions in a broad range of historical case studies and methods, including visual history. Not least, they aim at historicizing the roles of survivors and relatives in the social process of coming to terms with terrorist violence, a question highly relevant up to the present day.

Autorentext

Petra Terhoeven, Georg-August-University Göttingen

Inhalt

European History Yearbook 19 (2018), Victimhood and Acknowledgement: The Other Side of Terrorism, ed. by Petra Terhoeven

Contents

Petra Terhoeven

The Other Side of Terrorism (Editorial)

Anke Hilbrenner

Students into 'Bloodsuckers' - The making of terrorist victims as historical perpetrators in prerevolutionary Russia

Marie Breen-Smyth

Suffering, victims and survivors in the Northern Ireland Conflict: definitions, policies and politics

Rogelio Alonso

[Victims of ETA - Title TBC]

Anna Cento Bull

Reconciliation through agonistic engagement? Victims and former perpetrators in dialogue in Italy several decades after terrorism

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann

Beyond Heroism and Martyrdom. The forgotten victims from Entebbe

Martin Rupps

[The Landshut hostages - Title TBC]

Charlotte Klonk

In whose name? Visualising the victims of terror

Forum

Tillmann Lohse

[dt. Ein gescheitertes Migrationsregime? Zur Ikonologie der Völkerwanderungskarten am Beispiel des 21. Jahrhunderts]

Notes on Contributors