Collective Identity and Political Conflict

Abstract

Collective identity is closely connected with political conflict, mobilization and commemoration politics. This panel explores all three aspects in relation to collective identity across various cases and regions. The panel is in particular interested in cases of contentious politics crystallized around political conflict. It dwells on collective identity and political conflict under circumstances of radical and rapid political change, analyzes the role of symbolic politics, probes into inter-group and intragroup boundary-making as well as looks into identities in change. Some of the papers explore question of commemoration politics and how they affect collective identity, while others deal with issues of security and radical movements and their relation to identity. Most of the papers study question linked to either conflict mitigation or conflict enhancement surrounding collective identity.

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Variations in conflict outcomes and their effect on social identification of group members	View Paper Details
Legislating Communism Remembrance in Ukraine	View Paper Details
Societal Security, Memory and Collective Identity of Crimean Tatars after the Russian Annexation	View Paper Details
Radical left-libertarian identities in change: Analyzing activism in Sweden and Denmark 2001–2014	View Paper Details