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My project focuses on how different concepts of victimization developed in different European cultures after World War II and in particular on the creation of the "bad" versus "good" victims as a means of achieving cultural consensus about national identities. I would like to determine what new normative frameworks have evolved within which we can define who is a 'real' victim and who isn't—who deserves restitution and who does not. How have Western nations distinguished between 'deserving' and 'undeserving' victims when several groups now make claims to their own 'holocaust?' How can we learn about the construction of so-called deserving victims from the history of state and popular responses to various groups of victims?
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Carolyn Dean's recent publications include: "Against Grandiloquence: 'Victim's Culture' and Jewish Memory," in Warren Brenkman, Peter Gordon, Samuel Moyn, and Dirk Moses, eds. Charting Modernity: New Essays in Intellectual History and Critical Theory (New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming); "Recent French Discourses on Stalinism, Nazism, and 'Exorbitant' Jewish Memory," History & Memory, 18 (2006): 43-85; "Intellectual History and the Prominence of 'Things that Matter'," Rethinking History 4 (2004): 535-45; The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust (Cornell University Press, 2004). She is currently working on a project on the concept of victimization in Western Europe and the US (with specific emphasis on France and Italy after 1945).
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