Abstract
The present chapter proposes a typology of victimhood by which to interrogate apologetic discourse. Dolan analyses statements of apology from the Japanese government to South Korean victims of the ‘comfort system’, which involved the forced prostitution as well as sexual and gendered abuse of thousands of Korean women. Unlike other scholars of the phenomenon of political apology, which have considered such statements as a form of narrative redress and justice for political victims, her analysis perceives apology as a form of gendered political discourse which seeks to determine specific groups of victims intelligible within hegemonic discourse. Thus, a typology of ‘legitimate’ and ‘illegitimate’ victimhood is introduced in this chapter as a means of analysing the process by which state actors recognise specific groups of individuals as having suffered from state violence
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Re-writing Women as Victims |
| Subtitle of host publication | From Theory to Practice |
| Editors | Maria Jose Gamez Fuentes, Sonia Nunez Puente, Emma Gomez Nicolau |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Chapter | 3 |
| Pages | 26-38 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781032087023 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2020 |
