Introduction: Histories of victimhood: assemblages, transactions, and figures / Henrik Ronsbo and Steffen Jensen -- What social scientists should care how Jesus died / Darius Rejali -- Bodies of partition: of widows, residue, and other historical waste / Ravinder Kaur -- "Extremely poor" mothers and debit cards: the families in an action cash-transfer program in Colombia / Stine Finne Jakobsen -- How to become a victim: pragmatics of the admission of women in a South African primary health care clinic / Frédéric Le Marcis -- Negotiating victimhood in Nkomazi, South Africa / Steffen Jensen -- Between recognition and care: victims, NGOs, and the state in the Guatemalan postconflict victimhood assemblages / Henrik Ronsbo and Walter Paniagua -- Recognizing torture: credibility and the unstable codification of victimhood / Tobias Kelly -- The power of dead bodies / Nerina Weiss -- Why is Muna crying? Event, relation, and immediacy as criteria for acknowledging suffering in Palestine / Lotte Buch Segal -- Departures of decolonization: interstitial spaces, ordinary affect, and landscapes of victimhood in southern Africa / Pamila Gupta -- Performances of victimhood, allegation, and disavowal in Sierra Leone / Andrew M. Jefferson -- Victims in the moral economy of suffering: narratives of humiliation, retaliation, and sacrifice / Sofie Danneskoild-Samsøe -- Epilogue: Histories of victimhood: assemblage, transaction, and figure / Elizabeth A. Provinelli.