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ethnicity, nationalism, and conflict [d05ca298]

Tags: conflict and violence

1. Hosbawn 1992:

Nationalism with political theory
Ethnicity with socialism

2. Notes

Ethnic groups do not have a strict political order
Constructions typically emphasize the boundaries between them
Disaster Nationalism www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2020/03/rise-disaster-nationalism-why-authoritarian-right-resurgent

3. Pitfalls

There is a risk of not taking the violence of actors seriously
- Difference between the categories of analysis and categories of practice
Extremely risky to dimiss the agencies of actual actors
Mahmoud Mamdani - Political violence in africa is a continuation of colonial rule