Cultural Contestation In Ethnic Conflict Cambridge Series In Comparative Politics

Author : Marc Howard Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139463071
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict written by Marc Howard Ross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnic conflict often focuses on culturally charged symbols and rituals that evoke strong emotions from all sides. Marc Howard Ross examines battles over diverse cultural expressions, including Islamic headscarves in France, parades in Northern Ireland, holy sites in Jerusalem and Confederate flags in the American South to propose a psychocultural framework for understanding ethnic conflict, as well as barriers to, and opportunities for, its mitigation. His analysis explores how culture frames interests, structures demand-making and shapes how opponents can find common ground to produce constructive outcomes to long-term disputes. He focuses on participants' accounts of conflict to identify emotionally significant issues, and the power of cultural expressions to link individuals to larger identities and shape action. Ross shows that, contrary to popular belief, culture does not necessarily exacerbate conflict; rather, the constructed nature of psychocultural narratives can facilitate successful conflict mitigation through the development of more inclusive narratives and identities.

Author : Marc Howard Ross
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ISBN 13 : 9780511286216
Total Pages : 386 pages
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Download or read book Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict. Cambridge Series in Comparative Politics. written by Marc Howard Ross and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnic conflict often focuses on culturally charged symbols and rituals that evoke strong emotions from all sides. Marc Howard Ross examines battles over diverse cultural expressions, including Islamic headscarves in France, parades in Northern Ireland, holy sites in Jerusalem and Confederate flags in the American South to propose a psychocultural framework for understanding ethnic conflict, as well as barriers to, and opportunities for, its mitigation. His analysis explores how culture frames interests, structures demand-making and shapes how opponents can find common ground to produce constructive outcomes to long-term disputes. He focuses on participants' accounts of conflict to identify emotionally significant issues, and the power of cultural expressions to link individuals to larger identities and shape action. Ross shows that, contrary to popular belief, culture does not necessarily exacerbate conflict; rather, the constructed nature of psychocultural narratives can facilitate successful conflict mitigation through the development of more inclusive narratives and identities.

Author : Marc Howard Ross
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ISBN 13 : 9780511285479
Total Pages : 360 pages
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Author : Andreas Wimmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025559
Total Pages : 345 pages
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Download or read book Waves of War written by Andreas Wimmer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new perspective on how the nation-state emerged and proliferated across the globe, accompanied by a wave of wars. Andreas Wimmer explores these historical developments using social science techniques of analysis and datasets that cover the entire modern world.

Author : Henry E. Hale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139473077
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of Ethnic Politics written by Henry E. Hale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite implicating ethnicity in everything from civil war to economic failure, researchers seldom consult psychological research when addressing the most basic question: What is ethnicity? The result is a radical scholarly divide generating contradictory recommendations for solving ethnic conflict. Research into how the human brain actually works demands a revision of existing schools of thought. Hale argues ethnic identity is a cognitive uncertainty-reduction device with special capacity to exacerbate, but not cause, collective action problems. This produces a new general theory of ethnic conflict that can improve both understanding and practice. A deep study of separatism in the USSR and CIS demonstrates the theory's potential, mobilizing evidence from elite interviews, three local languages, and mass surveys. The outcome significantly reinterprets nationalism's role in CIS relations and the USSR's breakup, which turns out to have been a far more contingent event than commonly recognized.

Author : Roger D. Petersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521809863
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Ethnic Violence written by Roger D. Petersen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to identify the motivations of individual perpetrators of ethnic violence. The work develops four models gleaned from existing social science literatures: Fear, Hatred, Resentment, and Rage. The empirical chapters apply the models to important events involving ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe, from the 1905 Russian Revolution to the 1990's collapse of Yugoslavia. Each historical chapter generates questions about the timing and target of ethnic violence. The four models are then applied to determine which is most effective in explaining the observed patterns of ethnic conflict.

Author : Johanna Seibt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110385589
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How is Global Dialogue Possible? written by Johanna Seibt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intercultural dialogue is often invoked in vague reference to a method that can build cross-cultural understanding and facilitate global policy-making. This book clarifies the theoretical foundations of intercultural dialogue and demonstrates the practical significance of intercultural value inquiry, combining the perspectives of philosophy, conflict research, religious studies, and education.

Author : Mark Irving Lichbach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139476823
Total Pages : 521 pages
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Download or read book Comparative Politics written by Mark Irving Lichbach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure is a revised second edition of the volume that guided students and scholars through the intellectual demands of comparative politics. Retaining a focus on the field's research schools, it now pays parallel attention to the pragmatics of causal research. Mark Lichbach begins with a review of discovery, explanation and evidence and Alan Zuckerman argues for explanations with social mechanisms. Ira Katznelson, writing on structuralist analyses, Margaret Levi on rational choice theory, and Marc Ross on culturalist analyses, assess developments in the field's research schools. Subsequent chapters explore the relationship among the paradigms and current research: the state, culturalist themes and political economy, the international context of comparative politics, contentious politics, multi-level analyses, nested voters, endogenous institutions, welfare states, and ethnic politics. The volume offers a rigorous and exciting assessment of the past decade of scholarship in comparative politics.

Author : Rafaela M. Dancygier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511912856
Total Pages : 345 pages
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Download or read book Immigration and Conflict in Europe written by Rafaela M. Dancygier and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Immigration and Conflict in Europe explains why we observe clashes between immigrants and natives and between immigrants and state actors in some locations but not in others; it presents a wealth of qualitative and quantitative materials on immigrant conflict in Great Britain, Germany, and France from the postwar years until the beginning of the twenty-first century"--Provided by publisher

Author : Jeroen Rodenberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319919148
Total Pages : 342 pages
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Download or read book Cultural Contestation written by Jeroen Rodenberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion, as such practices can favor certain values over others. In some cases, exclusion from a society’s symbolic landscape can spark controversy, or rouse emotion so much so that they result in cultural contestation. Examples of this abound, but few studies explicitly analyze the role of government in these instances. In this volume, scholars from a variety of academic backgrounds examine the various and often conflicting roles governments play in these processes—and governments do play a role. They act as authors and authorizers of the symbolic landscape, from which societal groups may feel excluded. Yet, they also often attempt to bring parties together and play a mitigating role.