ethnicity, nationalism, and conflict

Tags: conflict and violence

Hosbawn 1992:

• Nationalism with political theory
• Ethnicity with socialism

Notes

• Ethnic groups do not have a strict political order

• Constructions typically emphasize the boundaries between them

• Disaster Nationalism https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2020/03/rise-disaster-nationalism-why-authoritarian-right-resurgent

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