The “deserved” victimhood of far-left terrorism: shame, guilt and status reversal
How do far-left violent extremists impose the emotions of shame and guilt onto their selected targets? How does the construction of a “deserved” victimhood by terrorists become plausible and how has the victim/perpetrator status reversal survived for decades at societal level? This chapter introduce...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Interdisciplinary applications of shame/violence theory
Year: 2022, Pages: 177-198 |
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| Summary: | How do far-left violent extremists impose the emotions of shame and guilt onto their selected targets? How does the construction of a “deserved” victimhood by terrorists become plausible and how has the victim/perpetrator status reversal survived for decades at societal level? This chapter introduces an advanced theoretical model based on Gilligan’s shame/violence theory, aiming, firstly, to examine the shame/guilt relationship between far-left violent extremists and their selected victims; secondly, to evaluate the shame/guilt relationship between far-left violent extremists and the families of their selected targets. The paper highlights the aforementioned causal relations through a case study: the assassination of the Greek journalist and Member of Parliament, Pavlos Bakoyiannis, by the far-left terrorist group “Revolutionary Organisation 17 November” in 1989. In the years that followed, the shameful accusations and violent threats against Bakoyannis’ family, by a small group of violent extremists, reversed reality and portrayed the victim as perpetrator, in order to justify their murderous means. Is this victim/perpetrator status reversal tolerated and/or justified by society? What are the lessons learned at societal level? |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 196-198 |
| Physical Description: | Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9783031055690 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-031-05570-6_10 |