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The volume I edited on The Social Psychology of Collective Victimhood is finally published! Table of contents in the link below and here a long thread with very short summaries of all 20 chapters of the book. (1/22) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-social-psychology-of-collective-victimhood-9780190875190
Ch.1: In the introduction, I discuss the need to consider the context, power of groups involved, and diversity in experiences of collective victimization as well as how people make sense of it, to avoid a deterministic and simplistic view. (2/22)
Ch. 2: @lauraktaylorPHD, Marina Štambuk, Dinka Čorkalo Biruški, & Dean O’Driscoll use a developmental intergroup framework & discuss the transgenerational transmission of collective victimhood through family and societal narratives, in Northern Ireland and Croatia (3/22)
Ch. 3: Neil Ferguson & Donna Halliday discuss the transmission of collective memories of victimization in Northern Ireland, including through physical identity markers in the community such as murals and memorials, and their role in mobilizing versus challenging violence (4/22)
Ch. 4: @yashjogdand, @khansammyh, & @ReicherStephen examine the role of humiliation in experiences of collective victimization in the context of Dalits in the Hindu caste system, discussing how humiliation can be used to mobilize or demobilize resistance to oppression. (5/22)
Ch. 5: @hirschg & Tsachi Ein-Dor discuss the role of existential threat, arguing that social psychological research on collective victimhood has focused on intergroup relations but paid too little attention to intragroup responses and their adaptive functions. (6/22)
Ch. 6: @Michal_Bilewicz & James Liu take a world systems perspective, show that the relationship b/w endorsement of conspiracy theories and collective victimhood differ in countries at the center or periphery of the global world order. In the latter, they may be adaptive. (7/22)
Ch. 7: Colin Leach offers appraisal theory as a unifying theoretical framework for understanding different ways of experiencing collective victimization. Collective victimization is appraised & coped with dynamically, coping strategies depends on group goals and resources (8/22)
Ch. 8: Zsolt Szabó reviews the social psychological literature on collective victim beliefs, which mostly examines comparative victim beliefs in intractable conflict but overlooks beliefs relevant in other contexts such as perceived invisibility & pride born of suffering. (9/22)
Ch. 9: @hopkinssocpsych & Anna Dobai examine how collective influences (e.g. religion, political discourse, misrecognition) shape theorizing about Islamophobia among Muslims in Europe & the U.S. & mobilize different courses of action to respond to collective victimization (10/22)
Ch. 10: Yechiel Klar, Noa Schori-Eyal, & Lior Yom Tov discuss divergent perceived moral obligations in Jewish Israeli society from the experience of the Holocaust that range from solidarity with other victims to legitimization of violence against perceived enemies. (11/22)
Ch. 11: Silvia Mari, Denise Bentrovato, Federica Durante, & Johan Wassermann discuss collective victimization resulting from structural violence in the contexts of Italy and South Africa, and how beliefs about direct and structural violence predict distinct outcomes (12/22)
Ch. 12: @RashmiNairPhD, @mukokuyan, and Nicola Curtin examine the understudied role of intersectionality in collective victimhood, and discuss research in the Indian context among Dalits and Muslims where gender and class were examined in addition to caste and religion. (13/22)
Ch. 13: @ReicherStephen & Yasemin Ulusahin examine collective victimhood claims among high power groups driven by threat to dominance, entitlement, and resentment. Group leaders promise to recover the group’s power & mobilize these narratives of resentment and redemption (14/22)
Ch. 14: @michellestwali, @BoazHameiri, Arie Nadler & I conceptualize the psychological dimensions and consequences of different forms of acknowledgment versus denial of collective victimization, and discuss how acknowledgment and denial is communicated and why it matters. (15/22)
Ch. 15: Michael J. Perez & @doctaphia offer a critical race reading of collective victimhood, examining the cultural psychological processes that contribute to delegitimization & precariousness of Black victimhood in the U.S. and maintain racist structures (16/22)
Ch. 16: @andrewrmcneill and I examine the rhetorical functions and different meanings and outcomes of inclusive victim consciousness, depending on the power dynamics involved: who is claiming similarities with whom, and if these claims are made by high or low power groups (17/22)
Ch. 17: Rahav Gabay, @BoazHameiri, Tami Lipshitz, & Arie Nadler discuss individual differences in perceiving interpersonal victimhood, and parallels to collective victimhood. It involves need for recognition, perceived moral superiority, lack of empathy, and rumination. (18/22)
Ch. 18: Frank Kachanoff, @michaelJAwohl, & Donald Taylor present an integrated model of different needs among victimized groups that all need to be considered in any steps towards reconciliation: basic needs for relatedness, competence, and collective autonomy. (19/22)
Ch. 19: Nurit Shnabel, Rotem Kahalon, Johannes Ullrich, & Anna Lisa Aydin build on the needs-based model of reconciliation for groups that are both victims & perpetrators. They argue that the experience of victimization & need for agency is psychologically more impactful (20/22)
Ch. 20: Sigrun Marie Moss writes about the ethics of researching and writing about collective victimhood in post-conflict societies, drawing on her field work experience in Rwanda, Zanzibar, and Sudan. (21/22)
(22/22) Feel free to email me or the authors for copies of individual chapters (some are also posted on research gate or academia .edu), or if you have library/book funds you can get the book at 30% discount using this code: ASPROMP8 on http://oup.com/academic
