Dynamics of Identification and Conflict

Anthropological Encounters

Markus Virgil Hoehne, Echi Christina Gabbert, John R. Eidson, Markus Virgil Hoehne, Echi Christina Gabbert, John R. Eidson

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781800736764
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Antropología cultural y social

Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification and conflict at the level of particular actors in relation to the behaviour of large aggregates of people and to systemic conditions.

Table of contents

• DYNAMICS OF IDENTIFICATION AND CONFLICT
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Approaching the Dynamics of Identification and Conflict through the Anthropology of Günther Schlee
• Part I — Pastoralists and Others: Identify, Territoriality, History and Politics
• Chapter 1 — What Do (Pastoralist) Women Want? Warfare, Cowardice and Sexuality in Northern Kenya
• Chapter 2 — Negotiating Complexity in East Africa: Landscape, Territoriality and Identify among Maa Speakers, North to South
• Chapter 3 — Where Do They Belong and What Belongs to Them? Acceptance of ‘Sedentarizing’ Fulbe and Rejection of Arab Returnees in Blue Nile State and Sennar State, Sudan
• Chapter 4 — Ethnicity, Identity and Citizenship of Recent Migrant Groups in Ghana
• Chapter 5 — Studying Conflict and Ethnicity through Performative and Audio-Visual Research Methods: Examples from Cameroon
• Part II — Conflict and Identification, Interests and Integration
• Chapter 6 — The Topography of Terrorism: Between Local Conflicts and Global Jihad
• Chapter 7 — Politics of Belonging and the Litmus Test of Retaliation
• Chapter 8 — Heroes and Identities: Relativism, Myth and Reality
• Chapter 9 — ‘Kosta akwa’: What an Italian Pidgin Poem from Tigray Says about Self-Image, Resistance and Conflict
• Chapter 10 — Integration Through Conflict: The Proliferation of Mutually Constructed Sacred Narratives in the Process of State (Re-)Formation in Ethiopia
• Chapter 11 — ‘A Dimpled Spider, Fat and White’: US Exceptionalism and the Accumulation of Terror
• Part III — Migration and Exclusion, Displacement and Emplacement
• Chapter 12 — From Bases of Identifications to Acts of Exclusion? Günther Schlee’s Contibutions to the Max Planck Research Initiative on Migration
• Chapter 13 — Dilemmas of Identification: The Trader’s Dilemma among Khorezmians in Tashkent
• Chapter 14 — Is Migrating a Rational Decision? Motives and Procedures of Qazaq Repatriation
• Chapter 15 — Transnational Communities and Shifting Moral Values: Migrants between the Netherlands and the Moluccas
• Chapter 16 — Multiscalar Social Relations of Dispossession and Emplacement
• Epilogue: Emancipatory Cosmopolitanism or Global Neighbourhood?
• Afterword: Charisma: Enthographers and Their Host Societies
• Interview with Günther Schlee, Halle (Saale), 10 December 2018
• To Günther Schlee, with Thanks . . .
• Published Works by Günther Schlee (Selection)
• Index