Violence, Politics and Identity

Authors

  • Imanol Zubero Grupo de investigación CIVERSITY, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU)

Keywords:

identity, political violence, alien, ethno-nationalism, ethnic cleaning, genocide, neighborhood

Abstract

This paper analyses the origin of political violence in the process of estrangement involved in the construction of identity. This process opposes an homogeneous and pure "us" to an undesirable, and even eliminable, "other". Once the conflict between them has been politically defined, the ethnic cleansing, the extermination of the strange and the genocide materialize into a social practice, with terrible consequences.

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Published

2016-02-16

How to Cite

Zubero, I. (2016). Violence, Politics and Identity. Constelaciones. Revista De Teoría Crítica, 4(4), 325–341. Retrieved from https://constelaciones-rtc.net/article/view/795