Ethnic Conflict

Banton, Michael

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“…21 A large body of anthropological and related research has detailed how identity-based political violence depends on mobilization (or 'ethnic action') and the politics of difference or 'othering'. 22 Arguing against popular views of ethnic conflict, anthropologists have also shown how ethnic identity, rather than causing conflict, 'emerges out of conflict'. 23 While I agree with these perspectives, I take a different path here by looking at 'ethnic conflict', 'ethnic violence', and 'ethnic clashes' as constructs that are employed in the discursive framing of acts of violence.…”

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Framing the tribal: ethnic violence in Northeast India

Kolås

2015

Asian Ethnicity

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This article examines the framing of 'ethnic conflict' in Northeast India, focusing on militant groups and insurgency in the hill areas of Assam and a form of political violence known locally as 'ethnic clashes'. The article argues that 'ethnic clashes' have become an institutionalized form of armed violence in the region, while 'ethnic rivalry' is a key diagnostic frame for conflict. As enactments and imaginaries of institutionalized violence, 'ethnic clashes' are a product of actors who hold stakes in representing armed political violence as a result of 'ethnic conflict' between rivaling tribal communities. The article looks at the representation of causes of conflict as well as the framing of acts of violence as key sites of contestation, and thus as integral aspects of the conflict. This raises questions about the feasibility of scholarly efforts to make sense of specific cases of conflict via generic categories such as the 'ethnic conflict'.

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Framing the tribal: ethnic violence in Northeast India

Kolås

2015

Asian Ethnicity

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“…Their needs create the necessity to form ethnic groups. Banton's [13] observation on the factors that contributed to ethnic conflicts pinpointed competition for power and economic advantages as the main reasons that caused the conflicts to happen. In the case of Malaysia, such contestations have metamorphosed into ethnic groups' competition.…”

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Ethnic Socialization: A Case of Malaysian Malay and Chinese Public Universities Students Experiences

Mun¹

2013

IJSSH

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Abstract-By and large, Malaysians associate themselves with certain ethnic identities. Such identification is clearly visible in most Malaysian public universities. This paper relates Malaysian Malay and Chinese public universities students' ethnic identification to their ethnic socialization experiences. Focus group discussions with Malay and Chinese students were conducted in four Malaysian public universities. Outcomes from the focus group discussions reveal the roles of cultural and competition socialization experiences in constructing the students ethnic identity. These ethnic socialization experiences played an important role in constructing ethnic consciousness among the students.

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“…In analyses performed at the national and international scales, the political science and political sociology literatures have identified a number of institutional structures through which tensions between ethnic groups might be mediated (Banton, 2000;Bulmer, 1998;Schöpflin, 2000). The Israeli case has been sometimes associated with the "ethnic democracy model" (Smooha, 2002), or even more pronounsly an "ethnocracty" (Yiftachel, 2001), stressing the ethnic ascendancy of the dominant (Jewish) group, while extending to the minority individual and collective rights only inasmuch that they are deemed non-threatening to the majority.…”

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Faultline Citizenship: Ethnonational Politics, Minority Mobilisation, and Governance in the Israeli “Mixed Cities” of Haifa and Tel Aviv-Jaffa

Leibovitz

2007

Ethnopolitics

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Belfast, Jerusalem, Brussels, Montreal, Sarajevo and Nicosia are among the most oft-mentioned examples of ethnically divided cities, situated in a wider context of ethnonational conflict (to varying degrees of intensity). At the same time there are other cities where ethnic and cross-community tensions are significant, but which have not occupied sufficient academic interest. In the Israel/Palestine context, the cities of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Haifa represent such cases. They both contain a minority of Israeli-Palestinians whose patterns of political mobilization and interaction with local state institutions have rarely been explored. Yet the interaction between urban governance actors and Palestinian activists in these cities reveals much about the nature of contemporary ethnopolitics in Israel/Palestine. The aim of the paper is to provide an analysis of the ways through which the different mobilization strategies of IsraeliPalestinians in these cities are shaped by altercations between local governance mechanisms, and the internal and external intricacies of ethnic movement politics. The paper develops a relational approach to the study of citizenship in ethnically polarized cities. It suggests that powerful insights into patterns of claiming citizenship can be gained by incorporating dynamic institutional approaches to local minority mobilization with the important roles of symbolic urban politics and the politics of place. The constellation of those factors provides for a rich picture of the subtleties of minority strategies and the governance of ethnically fractured cities.Divided, "mixed", or ethnically fractured cities are cities which are torn by ethnic and nationalist conflict. 1 The planning and management of such cities is typically characterized by conflicting aspirations presented by different ethnonational groups. This is all the more so in more extreme, or explicit, case where such fractured cities are embedded within a broader framework of ethnonational and territorial conflict (Hepburn, 2004). This paper examines the interaction between urban governance, citizenship and ethnonational politics among Israeli-Palestinian citizens 2 in two Israeli ethnically fractured cities: Haifa and Tel Aviv-Jaffa.

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Ethnic Conflict

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Framing the tribal: ethnic violence in Northeast India

Framing the tribal: ethnic violence in Northeast India

Ethnic Socialization: A Case of Malaysian Malay and Chinese Public Universities Students Experiences

Faultline Citizenship: Ethnonational Politics, Minority Mobilisation, and Governance in the Israeli “Mixed Cities” of Haifa and Tel Aviv-Jaffa

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