Wronged: The weaponisation of victimhood”
Source Title: LSE Review Blog,
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The self-oriented moral injury concerning the other’s suffering casts Western soldiers “not as perpetrators, but as victims of war devastation” (68). One can also draw parallels to the present, where nation-states employ collective victimhood to gather solidarity and sentiments on a global level. The ongoing war inflicted on Palestine by Israel is a timely example where Israel has been claiming and performing victimhood to justify both direct and structural violence against Palestinians. The review delves deeper into understanding the book 'Wronged: Weaponisation of Victimhood' in the contemporary global context.
Being a Khaddama: Narratives of Home, Belonging and identity for women domestic workers in the Gulf
Quartile: Q1
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With minimal access to legal protections, support, and exploitative conditions, Malayali women domestic workers in the Gulf struggle to forge meaningful connections and a sense of home in the UAE. This study aims to understand the experiences and perspectives of Malayali women, with a specific focus on the ways in which their idea of home and belonging are shaped by factors such as identity, diaspora, gender, and motherhood. The work also intends to comprehend how a sense of belonging helps the women to navigate through the sense of grief, guilt, and shame. Through their narratives, the article exposes how the migration of Malayali women domestic workers entail losing belonging, occupying liminal spaces, and relinquishing home.
Book: Writing Banal Inequalities: How to Fabricate Stories Which Disrupt
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In this Element, the authors write about the everyday production and experiences of banal inequality. Through a series of sections, each comprising of a blogpost written for Disruptive Inequalities, and a commentary from the author on the predicaments they encountered in the writing process, this Element shares, and confronts, the ways we fabricate stories and use writing to resist. It makes visible the choices, practices, and reflections that have led to the writing of our stories and offers the tools we have used to fabricate them, to all those who may find them meaningful to appropriate, adapt, and translate to fight the struggles that they want to fight. These tools are formulated in a way for writers to develop their own methods of storytelling and activism. The authors hope this Element contributes to an ongoing debate on how writing serves banal resistance.
Protecting the rights of women migrant domestic workers: structural violence and competing interests in the Philippines and Sri Lanka: Review
Quartile: Q1
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The feminisation turn in migration studies has been instrumental in shifting the gaze towards the global economies of care and migrant domestic work. Among the fastest-growing occupations globally, domestic work is highly gendered and racialised, dominated by female workers from the Global South. There is now a rich body of empirical scholarship that demonstrates unequal global hierarchies, structural vulnerabilities of workers, their exploitation
and unfreedoms associated with this work that often, simultaneously, contribute to pathways out of poverty and social and economic mobility. Through Henderson's work, the review critically analyses the asymmetric power relations between source and destination states that result in the latter dominating the policy discourse on migrant labour.
With love, from a non-expendable citizen
Source Title: Disruptive Inequalities,