The social psychology of collective victimhood /

This book provides an overview of current social psychological scholarship on collective victimhood. Drawing on different contexts of collective victimization-such as those due to genocide, war, ethnic or religious conflict, racism, colonization, Islamophobia, the caste system, and other forms of di...

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Other Authors: Vollhardt, Johanna, (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
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Online Access:Oxford scholarship online
Summary:This book provides an overview of current social psychological scholarship on collective victimhood. Drawing on different contexts of collective victimization-such as those due to genocide, war, ethnic or religious conflict, racism, colonization, Islamophobia, the caste system, and other forms of direct and structural collective violence - this edited volume presents theoretical ideas and empirical findings concerning the psychological experience of being targeted by collective violence in the past or present.
Physical Description:1 online resource (472 pages).
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190875220 (ebook) :