LEADER 03955nam 22007214a 450 001 9910784093903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-203-21831-0 010 $a1-280-10640-9 010 $a0-203-29481-5 010 $a1-134-47968-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000255400 035 $a(EBL)171200 035 $a(OCoLC)123449632 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000310280 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11231047 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000310280 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10288632 035 $a(PQKB)11674215 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL171200 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10099652 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL10640 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC171200 035 $a(PPN)198453183 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000255400 100 $a20020516d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe state, identity and violence$b[electronic resource] $epolitical disintegration in the post-cold war world /$fedited by R. Brian Ferguson 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (337 p.) 225 1 $aWar and society 300 $aSimultaneously published in the USA and Canada. 311 $a1-138-87442-6 311 $a0-415-27412-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aComments on state, identity, and violence / Eric R. Wolf -- Forces of reaction and changes of scale in the world system of states / Joseph A. Tainter -- The state concept and a world of polities under perpetual siege / Yale H. Ferguson -- Tribalism, ethnicity, and the state / David Maybury-Lewis -- Culture, violence and ethnic nationalism: weighing alternative strategies of explanation and media representation / Kay Warren -- Civil war in Peru: culture and violence in historical perspective / Linda J. Seligmann -- 'Religious' violence in India: Ayodhya and the Hindu right / Johanna M. Lessinger -- The specter of superfluity: genesis of schism in the dismantling of Yugoslavia / Bette Denich -- From the margins to the center: the Macedonian controversy in contemporary Greece / Anastasia Karakasidou -- Liberia: civil war and the 'collapse' of the settler state / Diana Deg. Brown -- Angola and the fragmentation of the post-colonial African state / Helio Belik -- A Cold War story: the barbarization of Chad (1966-91) / S.P. Reyna -- The Cold War and chaos in Somalia: a view from the ground / Catherine Besteman -- Conflicts versus contracts: political flows and blockages in Papua New Guinea / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart. 330 $aIn this book, a collection of experts investigate the varied forces - from global systems to local beliefs - that lead to civil violence, chaos and, perhaps, a new political order.The State, Identity and Violence explores acts of mass violence occurring within national borders and examines the links such acts have to personal identities and how they challenge the character or very existence of the state. Building upon the anthropological premises of holism and cross-cultural comparison, this volume shows how violent challenges to existing states should be conceptualized as layered problems 410 0$aWar and society (Routledge (Firm)) 606 $aPolitical violence 606 $aPolitical violence$vCase studies 606 $aState, The 606 $aNation-state 606 $aEthnic relations 606 $aInternational relations 615 0$aPolitical violence. 615 0$aPolitical violence 615 0$aState, The. 615 0$aNation-state. 615 0$aEthnic relations. 615 0$aInternational relations. 676 $a303.6 701 $aFerguson$b R. Brian$01089956 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784093903321 996 $aThe state, identity and violence$93817119 997 $aUNINA