SOCI 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: White Australia Policy, Resource Mobilization
Week 7- Race theories
Ethnic conflicts Robin Williams from week 6
• International involvement
o Domestic conflict is usually caused by global intervention
• Economic power
• Cultures and values are at risk
• Territory and material resources
• Ancient hatred
• Weaponization
• When a group feels victimized
• Forms of collective ethnic conflicts
o Genocide
o Assimilation
o Expulsion
o Marginalization
▪ Protests
▪ Movements
▪ Strikes
▪ Rioting
• There is no real sociology of ethnic conflict
Some theories of ethnic conflict
• Split labour markets, economic competition, internal colonialism, assimilation
• Williams argues that there is no single factor that explains conflict but a combination
o State power and resources
▪ Some states have more resources
o international conflict
o political resources of ethnies
o number and size of ethnies
o etc.
o ethnicities are both primordial
▪ permanent part of our being
o ethnicities are circumstantial
▪ can change over time, socially constructed
o ethnicities are instrumental
▪ goal seeking people, so change ethnicity to reach goal
▪ borrow from hegemonic whiteness to get the benefits
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