Social Psychology of Collective Victimhood

Throughout the world many continue to experience collective violence and its long-lasting consequences. This book examines the social psychological processes involved in experiences of collective victimization and oppression as well as the consequences of these experiences for individuals and for relations within and between groups. In twenty chapters authors explore questions such as: How are experiences of collective victimization passed down and understood? How do people cope with and make sense of these experiences? Who is included and excluded from the category of victims and what are the psychological consequences of such denial versus acknowledgment of collective victimization? And finally what are the ethics of researching collective victimization especially when these experiences are recent or politically contested? <p/>The authors examine these questions and others across a range of different contexts of collective violence in different parts of the world including ethnic and religious conflicts the aftermath of genocides post-Apartheid consequences of settler colonialism racism the caste system and national histories of victimization.<br>