Promoting conflict or peace through identity
By: [edited] by Nikki Slocum-Bradley.
Contributors: Slocum-Bradley, Nikki.
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780754672449
Subjects: Group identity -- Case studies; Social conflict -- Case studies; National characteristics -- Case studies; Ethnic conflict -- Case studies; Peace -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : borders of the mind / Nikki Slocum-Bradley; title: The making of nations in Belgium and Western Europe in historical perspective (15th-20th century) : national ideology, ethnicity, language and politics / Sébastien Dubois; title: Identity construction and citizenship conflicts in central Nigeria / Ogoh Alubo; title: The formation of national identity in Israel/Palestine: the construction of spatial knowledge and contested territorial narratives / David Newman; title: Borders of/on the mind, borders in the jungle : Islamic insurgency and ethno-religious irredentism in southern Thailand / David Camroux and Don Pathan; title: The positioning diamond : conceptualizing identity constructions at the U.S.-Mexico border / Nikki Slocum-Bradley; title: Identity construction in the EU, NAFTA, and MERCOSUR : opportunities for peace and conflict / Francesco Duina; title: Religion and regional planning : the case of the emerging Shi'a region / Fathali M. Moghaddam; title: Custom and identity : reflections on and representations of violence in Melanesia / Anne Brown; title: Crossing mental borders : constructing a laissez-passer for peace / Nikki Slocum-Bradley.