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Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2007-01-30
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0393329291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe violence of illusion -- Making sense of identity -- Civilizational confinement -- Religious affiliations and Muslim history -- West and anti-west -- Culture and captivity -- Globalization and voice -- Multiculturalism and freedom -- Freedom to think.
Author: R. Brian Ferguson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1134479670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, a collection of experts investigate the varied forces - from global systems to local beliefs - that lead to civil violence, chaos and, perhaps, a new political order. The State, Identity and Violence explores acts of mass violence occurring within national borders and examines the links such acts have to personal identities and how they challenge the character or very existence of the state. Building upon the anthropological premises of holism and cross-cultural comparison, this volume shows how violent challenges to existing states should be conceptualized as layered problems, with multiple kinds of causes. It not only goes beyond the "ancient hatreds" explanation, but shows the inadequacy of the concept of "ethnic violence" and of theories which treat interests and identities as separate, sometimes opposed variables
Author: Navnita Chadha Behera
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Book Provides The Most Complete Account Of The Diverse Group Identities In Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) - Kashmiri Muslims, Pandits, Gujjars, Paharis, Dogras And Ladakhi Buddhists; Their Politicization And Demands Ranging From Affirmative Discrimination, More Autonomy And A Separate Constitutional Status To Outright Secession. It Presents The First Detailed And Critical Appraisal Of The State And Regional Autonomy Committee Reports Released In April 1999 And Adopted Partly, By The J&K State Assembly In June 2000.
Author: Stephan Astourian
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2020-11-01
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 1789204518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTurkey has gone through significant transformations over the last century—from the Ottoman Empire and Young Turk era to the Republic of today—but throughout it has demonstrated troubling continuities in its encouragement and deployment of mass violence. In particular, the construction of a Muslim-Turkish identity has been achieved in part by designating “internal enemies” at whom public hatred can be directed. This volume provides a wide range of case studies and historiographical reflections on the alarming recurrence of such violence in Turkish history, as atrocities against varied ethnic-religious groups from the nineteenth century to today have propelled the nation’s very sense of itself.
Author: R. Brian Ferguson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-02-09
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781138874428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, a collection of experts investigate the varied forces - from global systems to local beliefs - that lead to civil violence, chaos and, perhaps, a new political order. The State, Identity and Violence explores acts of mass violence occurring within national borders and examines the links such acts have to personal identities and how they challenge the character or very existence of the state. Building upon the anthropological premises of holism and cross-cultural comparison, this volume shows how violent challenges to existing states should be conceptualized as layered problems, with multiple kinds of causes. It not only goes beyond the "ancient hatreds" explanation, but shows the inadequacy of the concept of "ethnic violence" and of theories which treat interests and identities as separate, sometimes opposed variables
Author: R. Brian Ferguson
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780415274128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David D. Laitin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-07-26
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 019922823X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNations, States, and Violence presents a revisionist view of the sources of nationalism, the relationship of the nation to culture, and the implications of nationalism and cultural heterogeneity for the future of the nation-state. It accepts the now-standard view that national identities are not inherited traits but constructed communities in order to serve political ends. But the resulting national identities do not emerge from some metaphorical plebiscite as had beensuggested by some; rather they result from efforts by people to coordinate their identities with people who share at least some cultural traits with them. Coordination leads to powerful social and cultural ties that are hard to unravel, and this explains the persistence of national identities.Understood as the result of coordination dynamics, the implications of national homogeneity and heterogeneity are explored. The book shows that national heterogeneity is not, as it is sometimes accused of being, a source of hatred and r s1ence. Nonetheless, there are advantages to homogeneity for the production of public goods and economic growth. Whatever the positive implications of homogeneity, the book shows that in the current world, classic nation-states are defunct. Heterogeneity isproliferating not only due to migration but also because small groups in many states once thought to be homogeneous are coordinating to demand national recognition. With the prohibitive costs of eliminating cultural heterogeneity, citizens and leaders need to learn how best to manage, or even takeadvantage of, national diversity within their countries. Management of diversity demands that we understand the coordination aspects of national heterogeneity, a perspective that this book provides.In addition to providing a powerful theory of coordination and cultural diversity, the book provides a host of engaging vignettes of Somalia, Spain, Estonia, and Nigeria, where the author has conducted original field research. The result is a book where theory is combined with interpretations of current issues on nationalism, economic growth, and ethnic violence.
Author: Philip Schlesinger
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Published: 1991-05
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text on media and collective identity aims to develop the understanding of contemporary struggles over political discourse. Combining analyses of political issues and case studies of media-state relations, the book demonstrates the complexity of political communication.
Author: J. Craig Jenkins
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2011-12-31
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 141280924X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial conflicts are ubiquitous and inherent in organized social life. This volume examines the origins and regulation of violent identity conflicts. It focuses on the regulation of conflict: the constraining, directing, and repression of violence through institutional rules and understandings. The core question the authors address is how violence is regulated and the social and political consequences of such regulation. The contributors provide a multidisciplinary multi-regional analysis of identity conflicts and their regulation. The chapters focus on the forging and suppression of religious and ethnic identities, problematic national identities, the recreation of identity in post-conflict peace-building efforts, and the forging of collective identities in the process of democratic state building. The instances of violent conflict treated here range across the globe from Central and South America, to Asia, to the Balkans, and to the Islamic world. One of the key findings is that conflicts involving religious, ethnic, or national identity are inherently more violence prone and require distinctive methods of regulation. Identity is a question both of power and of integrity. This means that both material and symbolic needs must be addressed in order to constrain or regulate these conflicts. Accordingly, some chapters draw on a political-economy approach that places primary emphasis on resources, organization, and interests, while others develop a cultural approach focusing on how identities are constructed, grievances defined, blame attributed, and redress articulated. This volume offers new ideas about the regulation of identity conflicts, at both the global and local level, that engage both tradition and modernization. It will be of interest to policymakers, political scientists, human rights activists, historians, and anthropologists.
Author: Peter Lambert
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2006-11-27
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0230601723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis topical volume seeks to analyze the intimate but under-studied relationship between the construction of national identity in Latin America, and the violent struggle for political power that has defined Latin American history since independence. The result is an original, fascinating contribution to an increasingly important field of study.
