The Roots of Intense Ethnic Conflict may not in fact be Ethnic: Categories, Communities and Path Dependence
Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: This article criticizes two theoretical approaches to ethnicity and ethnic conflict. One emphasizes the intense solidarity generated by the ethnic bond and explains this in terms of a deep, quasi-kin feeling. The other emphasizes the contingency and situatedness of ethnic feeling and the fluctuating character of ethnic “groupness”. We adopt an alternative strategy, locating ethnicity as one factor among many, which may form a path-dependent self-reproductive system generating communal opposition and ethnic conflict.
Source: European Journal of Sociology
Authors: JOSEPH RUANE, JENNIFER TODD
Institutions: University College Cork, University College Dublin
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3121406686