Wronged: the weaponization of victimhood

蒙冤:受害者身份的武器化

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2025-03-06

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Contributor(s): Professor Lilie Chouliaraki, Professor Rosalind Gill, Radha Sarma Hegde, Professor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen | Why is being a victim such a potent identity today? Who claims to be a victim, and why? How have such claims changed in the past century? Who benefits and who loses from the struggles over victimhood in public culture? In this timely and incisive book, Lilie Chouliaraki shows how claiming pain is about claiming power: who deserves to be protected as a victim and who should be punished as a perpetrator. She argues that even if suffering is universal, this "politics of pain" is deeply embedded within power relations and ultimately privileges the voices of the powerful over those of the powerless. Unless we come to recognize the suffering of the vulnerable for what it is—a matter not of victimhood but of injustice—Chouliaraki powerfully warns, the culture of victimhood will continue to perpetuate old exclusions and enable further injuries.
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  • Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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  • Good evening everyone and welcome to this hybrid event organised by the Department of Media and Communications here at the LSE.

  • It's wonderful to see a full room and I know we have an audience joining us online.

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  • that you participate also at the Q&A session.

  • My name is Miria Giorgio,

  • I'm the Head of Department of Media and Communications and I am delighted and honoured to chair this event tonight.

  • And this event celebrates and discusses Professor Lili Hullaraki's new book, Wronged, The Weaponisation of Victimhood.

  • I would like to start by briefly introducing our panel to you.

  • Lili Hullaraki, the main speaker for today's event, is Professor of Media and Communications here at the LSE.

  • She will be joined by a wonderful panel and to introduce them alphabetically.

  • Next to Lili we can see Professor Rosalind Gill,

  • who is a Professor of Inequalities in Creative and Cultural Industries at Goldsmiths.

  • We have online Professor Radha Hedge, who we will hear, unfortunately we won't be able to see.

  • Who is Professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University.

  • We also have Professor Karin Vol Jorgensen, who is Professor of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University.

  • I want to warmly welcome them and I want to welcome also our audience, both in the room and online.

  • And this is how we're planning the event for tonight.

  • Professor Hullaraki will speak for about 20 minutes and then we will invite Professor Skill,