The state, identity and violence [[electronic resource] ] : political disintegration in the post-cold war world / / edited by R. Brian Ferguson

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.6
• Soggetto topico: Political violence; State, The; Nation-state; Ethnic relations; International relations
• Altri autori: FergusonR. Brian
• Note generali: Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Comments 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The state, identity and violence
• ISBN: 0-203-21831-0; 1-280-10640-9; 0-203-29481-5; 1-134-47968-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784093903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: War and society (Routledge (Firm))