Identity, conflict and politics in Turkey, Iran and Pakistan

Ethnic and religious identity-markers compete with class and gender as principles shaping the organization and classification of everyday life. But how are an individual's identity-based conflicts transformed and redefined? Identity is a specific form of social capital, hence contexts where multiple identities necessarily come with a hierarchy, with differences, and hence with a certain degree of hostility. This book examines the rapid transformation of identity hierarchies affecting Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey, a symptom of political fractures, social-economic transformation, and new regimes of subjectification.

Machine generated contents note:pt. ONEFORMATION OF IDENTITIES --1."The Narcissism of the Minor Difference" and Religious Violence: The Case of the Alevis and Sunnis of Central Anatolia /Benoit Fliche --2.Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Hierarchy: The Use of Categories in the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey /Clemence Scalbert-Yucel --3.Ethnic and Regional Ferment in Iran: The Gilan Example /Christian Bromberger --pt. TWOEMERGENCE OF MOBILIZATIONS --4.Management of Identities in and by Turkey's Political Parties /Elise Massicard --5.Transformation of a Conflict in the Diaspora: Sikhs, Muslims and the British State /Christine Moliner --6.Origins of the Protest Movement Against Ethnic Hierarchy: The Azerbaijani Cause in Iran /Gilles Riaux --7.Violence and War in the Middle East in the 1980s /Hamit Bozarslan --pt. THREETRANSITIONS TO VIOLENCE --8.Self-Radicalisation of a Young Indian Jihadist in Great Britain: The Quest for Ethics and Long-Distance Suffering /Aminah Mohammad-Arif --9.Conflicting Emotions: The 2006 Anti-"Danish Cartoons" Riot in Lahore (Pakistan) /Amelie Blom --10.Quetta City and the Baluch Guerrilla: Issues at Stake in Politically Motivated Urban Violence /Luc Bellon --11.Graduating to Violence: The Escalation of Student Strife at Karachi University, 1979 -- 1989 /Laurent Gayer --12.Instrumentalization of Ethnic Conflict by the State: The Azeri-Kurdish Conflict in Iran /Chirine Mohseni.