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1 results foundAuthor: Gupte, Jaideep Title: What's Civil About Intergroup Violence? Five Inadequacies of Communal and Ethnic Constructs of Urban Riots Summary: The term ‘communal violence’ is commonly used in the South Asian context to refer to inter-group or ethnic violence. I contend that understanding intergroup violence purely within an inter-community or inter-ethnic framework is inadequate, in that it does not fully capture the processes of perpetration, impacts or mitigation of such violence. I suggests 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 in-depth 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. The terminology of ‘civil violence’, which expressly accommodates a micro-perspective and awards agency to individuals, is highlighted as a more accurate and appropriate framework to understand violence categorized as ‘communal’ in contemporary India. These arguments also have implications on how we conceptualize the ‘ethnic riot’, and how state and society formulate responses to intergroup violence, elsewhere in the developing world. Details: Brighton, UK: MICROCON: A Micro Level Analysis of Violent Conflict, Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, 2012. 30p. Source: Internet Resource: MICROCON Research Working Paper 62,: Accessed January 22, 2013 at: http://www.microconflict.eu/publications/RWP62_JGupte.pdf Year: 2012 Country: India URL: http://www.microconflict.eu/publications/RWP62_JGupte.pdf Shelf Number: 127351 Keywords: Communal ViolenceEthnic ViolenceRiotsUrban Violence (India) |