Identity, Conflict and Politics in Turkey, Iran and Pakistan
Gilles Dorronsoro and Olivier Grojean
Abstract
Ethnic and religious identity-markers compete with class and gender as principles shaping the organization and classification of everyday life. But how are an individual's identity-based conflicts transformed and redefined? Identity is a specific form of social capital, hence contexts where multiple identities necessarily come with a hierarchy, with differences, and hence with a certain degree of hostility. It examines the rapid transformation of identity hierarchies affecting Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey, a symptom of political fractures, social-economic transformation, and new regimes of subje ... More
Ethnic and religious identity-markers compete with class and gender as principles shaping the organization and classification of everyday life. But how are an individual's identity-based conflicts transformed and redefined? Identity is a specific form of social capital, hence contexts where multiple identities necessarily come with a hierarchy, with differences, and hence with a certain degree of hostility. It examines the rapid transformation of identity hierarchies affecting Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey, a symptom of political fractures, social-economic transformation, and new regimes of subjectification. They focus on the state's role in organizing access to resources, with its institutions often being the main target of demands, rather than competing social groups. Such contexts enable entrepreneurs of collective action to exploit identity differences, which in turn help them to expand the scale of their mobilization and to align local and national conflicts. The authors also examine how identity-based violence may be autonomous in certain contexts, and serve to prime collective action and transform the relations between communities.
Keywords:
Iran,
Pakistan,
Turkey,
identity hierarchies,
ethnic identity,
religious identity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780190845780 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: June 2019 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190845780.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Gilles Dorronsoro, editor
Carnegie Endowment, Washington, D.C.
Olivier Grojean, editor
CERIC-CNRS, Aix-en-Provence
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