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Identity matters : ethnic and sectarian conflict /

"In response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and war in Afghanistan, the Fulbright New Century Scholars program brought together social scientists from around the world to study sectarian, ethnic, and cultural conflict within and across national borders. As one result of their year of inte...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Peacock, James L. (Editor), Thornton, Patricia M. (Editor), Inman, Patrick B. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ethnic conflict and civic nationalism : a model / David Brown
  • Social identity matters : predicting prejudice and violence in Western Europe / Thomas F. Pettigrew
  • Readiness to fight in Crimea : how it interrelates with national and ethnic identities / Karina V. Korostelina
  • Ethnic identities of the Karen peoples in Burma and Thailand / Kwanchewan Buadaeng
  • European attitudes toward immigrants / Thomas F. Pettigrew
  • Tibetan identity in today's China / Badeng Nima
  • Cross-cutting identities in Singapore : crabgrass on the Padang / James L. Peacock and Wee Teng Soh
  • The Casamance separatist conflict : from identity to the trap of "identitism" / Hamadou Tidiane Sy
  • Manufacturing sectarian divides : the Chinese state, identities, and collective violence / Patricia M. Thornton
  • Islam and the West : a perspective from Pakistan / Mohammad Waseem
  • Conclusion : Ethnic and sectarian as ideal types / Patrick B. Inman and James L. Peacock.