POL320Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: European Colonialism, Nominalism, Cosmopolitanism
3 Nov 2018
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Ethnicity and ethnic based conflict: the term ethnicity refers to a myth of origin. Artificial creation of ethnicity: some ethnic classifications were initially imposed by outsiders (belgians in. Congo with non-existent myth of bangala : many africans attribute the consistent legacy of ethnic conflict to the legacy of. Indian population in latin america: systematic violence characterized by deep ethnic resentments and massive violence or civil war (e. g. chechnya, lebanon, bangladesh, Source of ethnic conflict: ethno-political conflicts stem from a wide range of ideological, demographic, religious, ethnic (identity), economic, social-structural, and political conditions. Key explanations include: resources scarcity, demographic stress and geopolitical and. Causes of internal conflict: ethnic groups seeking greater autonomy or striving to create an independent state for themselves (such as the kurds in turkey and chechens in russia) Practices that might create nationalist grievances: creation of an official language, banning of certain forms of cultural expression (music, dress, preferential employment opportunities, preferential political opportunities, changing of place names.
