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Identity Matters

Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict
1. Aufl.

von: James L. Peacock, Patricia M. Thornton, Patrick B. Inman
38,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	01.05.2007
ISBN/EAN:	9780857456892
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	258

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Titelbeschreibung

In response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and war in Afghanistan, the Fulbright New Century Scholars program brought together social scientists from around the world to study sectarian, ethnic, and cultural conflict within and across national borders. As one result of their year of intense discussion, this book examines the roots of collective violence — and the measures taken to avoid it — in Burma (Myanmar), China, Germany, Pakistan, Senegal, Singapore, Thailand, Tibet, Ukraine, Southeast Asia, and Western Europe.
 Case studies and theoretical essays introduce the basic principles necessary to identify and explain the symbols and practices each unique human group holds sacred or inalienable. The authors apply the methods of political science, social psychology, anthropology, journalism, and educational research. They build on the insights of Gordon Allport, Charles Taylor, and Max Weber to describe and analyze the patterns of behavior that social groups worldwide use to maintain their identities.
 Written to inform the general reader and communicate across disciplinary boundaries, this important and timely volume demonstrates ways of understanding, predicting and coping with ethnic and sectarian violence.
 Contributors: Badeng Nima, David Brown, Kwanchewan Buadaeng, Patrick B. Inman, Karina V. Korostelina, James L. Peacock, Thomas F. Pettigrew, Wee Teng Soh, Hamadou Tidiane Sy, Patricia M. Thornton, Mohammad Waseem.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors
 Introduction: Identity Matters Patricia M. Thornton
 Chapter 1. Ethnic Conflict and Civic Nationalism: A Model David Brown
 Chapter 2. Social Identity Matters: Predicting Prejudice and Violence in Western Europe Thomas F. Pettigrew
 Chapter 3. Readiness to Fight in Crimea: How It Interrelates with National and Ethnic Identities Karina V. Korostelina
 Chapter 4. Ethnic Identities of the Karen Peoples in Burma and Thailand Kwanchewan Buadaeng
 Chapter 5. European Attitudes toward Immigrants Thomas F. Pettigrew
 Chapter 6. Tibetan Identity in Today’s China Badeng Nima
 Chapter 7. Cross-Cutting Identities in Singapore: Crabgrass on the Padang James L. Peacock and Wee Teng Soh
 Chapter 8. The Casamance Separatist Conflict: From Identity to the Trap of “Identitism” Hamadou Tidiane Sy
 Chapter 9. Manufacturing Sectarian Divides: The Chinese State, Identities, and Collective Violence Patricia M. Thornton
 Chapter 10. Islam and the West: A Perspective from Pakistan Mohammad Waseem
 Conclusion: Ethnic and Sectarian as Ideal Types Patrick B. Inman and James L. Peacock
 Index

Autorenportrait

James L. Peacock is Kenan Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 2002 recipient of the American Anthropological Association’s Boas Award. His publications include: Grounded Globalism (University of Georgia Press, 2007), Pilgrims of Paradox (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), The Anthropological Lens (Cambridge University Press, 1986, 2001), and Rites of Modernization (University of Chicago Press, 1968, 1987).