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Items by Dr Sankha Maji
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Rethinking Victimhood in Mohammed El-Kurd’s Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal
El-Kurd offers a stark formulation that captures the central argument of Perfect Victims: “What makes some people heroes is what makes us criminals. It is almost simplistic to say that we are guilty by birth. Our existence is purely mechanistic; we are reminded, through policy and procedure, that we are…