national identity, ethnic homogeneity, and official history and, as an Armenian living in Turkey, questioned the institutionalized historical denial that has characterized the Republic of Turkey after the 1915 Genocide. Like other intellectuals, he had been
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Moral Thresholds of Outrage
The March for Hrant Dink and New Ways of Mobilization in Turkey
Lorenzo D’Orsi
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jan 2018
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- Research Article
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- 40–57 (18 total)
First as Tragedy, Then as Teleology
The Politics/People Dichotomy in the Ethnography of Post-Yugoslav Nationalization
Stef Jansen
nationally homogeneous polities. Such particularly militant retrospective narratives passionately asserted the idea that, in Bringa’s words, “national identity [was] the only relevant identity and nationalism the only relevant discourse.” Crucially, and going
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- 164–180 (17 total)
Perspectives from the Ground
Colonial Bureaucratic Violence, Identity, and Transitional Justice in Canada
Jaymelee J. Kim
another imposed colonial bureaucratic mechanism antithetical to Indigenous identity and needs. In conjunction with the TRC, seven national events were organized to engage the public and Indigenous community members regarding residential school histories
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- 01 Jan 2018
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- 116–134 (19 total)
Violence and Identification
Everyday Ethnic Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Torsten Kolind
aspects of everyday life. And on the public and political levels, national identities have been promoted as the only salient ones. But when analyzing everyday identifications of the Muslims of Stolac another picture emerges, one that is less clear
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- 181–200 (20 total)
Invisible Veterans
Defeated Militants and Enduring Revolutionary Social Values in Dhufar, Oman
Alice Wilson
Participation in organized political violence creates lasting material and social legacies for veteran combatants. Insights into how state authorities, veterans, and other citizens create former combatant identities have mostly emerged from
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Introduction
The Digital Age Opens Up New Terrains for Peace and Conflict Research
Josepha Ivanka Wessels
identities of adversaries can be perpetuated in cyberspace, even if these adversaries are inactive in the offline world. For example, YouTube provides a digital public space for Rhodesians to express their national identity, while Rhodesia as a nation
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Liberation Autochthony
Namibian Veteran Politics and African Citizenship Claims
Lalli Metsola
relations, citizenship often remained minimalist, “involv[ing] a birth certificate or a national identity card that does not have the power to invoke rights and obligations” ( Roitman 2007: 188 ). Through the 1980s and 1990s, the combination of economic
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Matthew Carey, Ida Nielsen Sølvhøj, Eve Monique Zucker, Younes Saramifar, and Louis Frankenthaler
concept of nationalism that inspired thoughts of national identity and independence and was developed within the Buddhist Institutes that were continuing to provide much of the education to the Cambodian population. Um concludes, “The Buddhist community
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- Book Review
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- 246–258 (13 total)
The Many Layers of Moral Outrage
Kurdish Activists and Diaspora Politics
Nerina Weiss
, national symbols that according to the literature should be central to the formation of collective identity ( Romania and Tozzo 2017 , Geisler 2005 ), were puzzling to the average Norwegian. So who, then, was the intended audience of that performance of
In Conflict and Society
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Staying out of Place
The Being and Becoming of Burundian Refugees in the Camp and the City
Simon Turner
, regaining what was lost. While displacement has connotations of force and involuntary movement, emplacement is usually associated with agency and with voluntary creation of identities. Stef Jansen and Staffan Löfving (2008) argue, however, that emplacement
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