Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Dhattiwala, Raheel (1977-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Keeping the peace [Texte imprimé] : spatial differences in Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002 / Raheel Dhattiwala

Publication : Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019

Description matérielle : xvii, 193 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Even in the worst episodes of organized mass violence, some towns, villages, and neighbourhoods remain peaceful. What explains these spatial differences in violence? In Keeping the Peace, sociologist Raheel Dhattiwala argues that peace during collective violence can prevail even amid intergroup hostility and impassioned political motivations. Marshalling first-hand evidence from Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002, this book provides the link between the macro level of political ideologies leading to mass violence and the necessary micro conditions for violence to actually happen. Dhattiwala begins by systematically demonstrating the political logic of violence in Gujarat: the worst attacks on Muslims were orchestrated where the BJP faced the toughest electoral competition. Yet peace had prevailed in several places through a complex interplay of spatial layouts and the cognitive decisions of people caught in the middle of violence. Rarely did attackers and targets of the violence abandon reason even in the face of heightened emotions. Risk-averse attackers adopted spatial strategies to assess the vulnerability of the targets, and targets of violence used unorthodox means of sustaining peace, such as enforcement mechanisms, in order to fortify cooperation from co-ethnics. Dhattiwala further argues that despite intergroup hostility people can collectively work towards fulfilling common goals of the neighbourhood by forging positive alliances, even when superficial. Armed with fine-grained statistical analyses and interviews with victims and perpetrators over five years in Ahmedabad, the empirical data from the Gujarat violence makes a strong case for peacekeeping during collective violence, regardless of regional context"

Sujet(s) : Conflits ethniques -- Gujarat (Inde)  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Violence -- Gujarat (Inde)  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  303.609 54 (23e éd.) = Conflit et résolution de conflits - Asie du Sud Inde  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781108497596. - ISBN 1108497594

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb45735585s

Notice n° :  FRBNF45735585 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Explaining Variation in Violence: An Introduction ; Peace and Violence: Concepts and Theory ; The Political Logic of Violence: Anti-Muslim Pogrom in Gujarat ; Ahmedabad ; Spatial Configuration: Variation in Violence across Neighbourhoods ; Monitoring and Control in Two Peaceful Neighbourhoods ; So Near, and Yet So Far: Neighbour Relations Between Victims and ; Perpetrators of Violence ; The BJP's Muslim Supporters in Ahmedabad ; Ethnic Violence: Connecting the Macro with the Micro.