Overview
- Examines political conflict and dissent from a social psychological perspective
- Applies a theoretical perspective to a series of contemporary case studies
- Explores an alternative way of looking at conflict
Part of the book series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences (IDS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Critique
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a systematic examination of the re-patterning of collective identities through violence and the role of power politics in such critical transitions. The authors show how identity is created through shared social practices and how it is transformed when collective violence disrupts common practices. Three case studies show how this model sheds new light on the dynamics of religious violence in parts of India, on ethnic violence in the former Yugoslavia, as well as on anti-war protest in the UK in reaction to the military invasion of Iraq.
The book explores an alternative way of looking at conflict, and dissects the policies and processes that bring specific identities to the fore, taking seriously the capacity to resist and face abusive authority.
Identity, Violence and Power will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, social psychology, history, political science and conflict studies.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Guy Elcheroth is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is currently Principal Investigator of the Pluralistic Memories Project, a cross-national research for development consortium, and Co-director of the Lausanne Life Course and Inequality Research Centre.
Stephen Reicher is Wardlaw Professor of Psychology at the University of St. Andrews, UK. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Identity, Violence and Power
Book Subtitle: Mobilising Hatred, Demobilising Dissent
Authors: Guy Elcheroth, Stephen Reicher
Series Title: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31728-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-27260-6Published: 03 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-59129-9Published: 06 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31728-5Published: 23 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-7786
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7794
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 264
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Sociology, Ethnicity Studies, Conflict Studies, Self and Identity