Affect, Interest and Political Entrepreneurs in Ethnic and Religious Conflicts

ISBN-13: 9780367519421 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 160 str.

Arthur A. Stein; Ayelet Harel-Shalev

Opis

A multidisciplinary and multinational group of scholars address the bases of ethnic and religious conflict and the role of ideologies, institutions, and politicians in shaping political cleavages and conflicts. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Ancestral and instrumental in the politics of ethnic and religious conflict  Part I: Domestic and International Sources of Political Competition and Conflict  1. When and why do some social cleavages become politically salient rather than others?  2. Ethnicity, extraterritoriality, and international conflict  Part II: Ethnic and Religious Conflict in the Middle East  3. Representation, minorities and electoral reform: the case of the Palestinian minority in Israel  4. The paradox of power-sharing: stability and fragility in postwar Lebanon  5. Changing Islam, changing the world: contrasting visions within political Islam  Part III: Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Asia  6. The "ethnic" in Indonesia’s communal conflicts: violence in Ambon, Poso, and Sambas  7. Gendering ethnic conflicts: minority women in divided societies – the case of Muslim women in India