What’s civil about intergroup violence? Five inadequacies of communal and ethnic constructs of urban riots
Published By: MICROCON | Published Date: June, 01 , 2012There are five areas where the categories of ‘communal’ and ‘ethnic’ fall short: in their historical precision, in their scale, in their partial conceptualization of agency, in their ability to engage with the gendered modalities of violence, and in their ability to explain individuals’ motivations for physically perpetrating intergroup violence. The arguments are based on primary data gathered through indepth interviews with victims, perpetrators and witnesses of incidents of intergroup violence in India, as well as a review of relevant studies of intergroup violence from across the world.
Author(s): Jaideep Gupte | Posted on: Jan 18, 2016 | Views()