scholarly journals Varieties of Arbitrary Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 151-187
Author(s):  
Rebecca Tapscott
Keyword(s):  
Distinct Type ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Additional Research ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Authoritarian Rule ◽  
Fluid State ◽  
Institutional Fragmentation

This chapter uses sub-national variation to probe alternative explanations for arbitrary governance. Evidence from three additional research sites in Uganda—Mbarara, Moroto, and Soroti—shows that violent conflict and political leanings shape how institutionalized arbitrariness manifests, exaggerating certain components and attenuating others. Such differences result in ‘varieties’ of institutionalized arbitrariness that, taken together, bolster and nuance the argument that arbitrary governance is a distinct type of authoritarian rule. The results are presented in a typology of four varieties of institutionalized arbitrariness, each corresponding to a different study location. The typology illustrates some of the different outcomes produced by changing combinations of state violence, fluid state jurisdiction, unpredictable state presence, and institutional fragmentation. The chapter then uses these variations to examine some limitations of the theory, including questions about the regime’s intent and citizens’ agency.

scholarly journals Securitizing the Muslim Brotherhood: State violence and authoritarianism in Egypt after the Arab Spring

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Pratt ◽  
Dina Rezk
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Military Coup ◽  
Authoritarian Rule ◽  
Critical Security Studies ◽  
Securitization Theory ◽  
Middle East Politics ◽  
The Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
The Arab Spring

Unprecedented levels of state violence against the Muslim Brotherhood, and the widespread acceptance of this violence by Egyptians following the July 2013 military coup, have been under-examined by scholars of both critical security studies and Middle East politics, reflecting implicit assumptions that state violence is unexceptional beyond Europe. This article explores how the deployment of such levels of violence was enabled by a securitization process in which the Egyptian military successfully appropriated popular opposition to Muslim Brotherhood rule, constructing the group as an existential threat to Egypt and justifying special measures against it. The article builds on existing critiques of the Eurocentrism of securitization theory, alongside the writings of Antonio Gramsci, to further refine its application to non-democratic contexts. In addition to revealing the exceptionalism of state violence against the Muslim Brotherhood and highlighting the important role of nominally non-state actors in constructing the Muslim Brotherhood as a threat to Egypt, the article also signals the role of securitization in re-establishing authoritarian rule in the wake of the 2011 uprising. Thus, we argue that securitization not only constitutes a break from ‘normal politics’ but may also be integral to the reconstitution of ‘normal politics’ following a period of transition.

scholarly journals Linking individual and group motives for violent conflict

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 205316802110610
Author(s):  
Matthew Nanes
Keyword(s):  
Civil Conflict ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Economic Satisfaction ◽  
The Status ◽  
List Experiment ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Group Inequality

Research on the role of grievances in civil conflict is surprisingly inconclusive, with well-cited studies disagreeing on the relationship between perceived deprivation and violence. I argue that the role of grievances depends on an interaction between individual and group-level incentives. Individuals who perceive themselves as personally deprived are more likely to support or participate in anti-regime violence, but only if a successful rebellion would enhance their group’s power relative to the status quo. I test this argument in the context of Iraq’s sectarian civil war using data from a 2016 survey of 800 Baghdad residents. Using a list experiment to measure individuals’ willingness to consider violence against a government they feel is ignoring their needs, I find that minority Sunnis who are economically dissatisfied are significantly more willing to consider violence than similarly aggrieved Shias. However, as economic satisfaction increases, Sunnis’ propensity for violence decreases until it becomes indistinguishable from Shias’ propensity. These results clarify the joint impacts of vertical and horizontal grievances. Group inequality and individual deprivation are each necessary but not sufficient to fully explain individuals’ propensities for anti-state violence.

scholarly journals A healing-centered approach to preventing urban gun violence: The Advance Peace Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Corburn ◽  
DeVone Boggan ◽  
Khaalid Muttaqi ◽  
Sam Vaughn ◽  
James Houston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
African American Males ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Mortality Burden ◽  
Outreach Workers ◽  
The Us ◽  
Trauma Informed

AbstractUrban gun violence is the result of and contributes to trauma for both individuals and communities. In the US, African American males between 15 and 34 years old bear the greatest mortality burden from gun violence. Community-based approaches that use credible, street-level outreach workers to interrupt conflicts, mentor the small number of offenders in each community, and offer them alternatives to violent conflict resolution, have demonstrated success in reducing firearm homicides. Yet, few of these approaches explicitly aim to also address the traumas of structural violence that contribute to gun crime, including dehumanizing policing, extreme poverty, and institutional racism. This commentary describes a program called Advance Peace that aims to explicitly use a healing-centered approach to address the traumas associated with violence as a means to reduce gun crime in urban communities. We describe the trauma-informed, healing-centered approach used by Advance Peace, the components of its intensive outreach strategy called the Peacemaker Fellowship, and some impacts the program is having on trauma and healing. The evidence comes from observations, interviews, and the voices of Advance Peace participants and staff. We suggest that exploring the inner workings of the Advance Peace model is critical for identifying ways to support trauma-informed healing-centered approaches in Black and brown communities that have been ravaged by racism, incarceration, and heavy-handed state violence.

scholarly journals Violence, Sovereignty, and the Uganda Police Force

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-97
Author(s):  
Rebecca Tapscott
Keyword(s):  
State Intervention ◽  
State Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Result State ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Institutional Fragmentation ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

How does the Ugandan state produce and sustain the perception among citizens that it commands overwhelming violence? Through a study of the Uganda Police Force, this chapter examines four elements that blur the distinction between lawful and exceptional violence: first, institutional fragmentation obscures the source of violence and undermines accountability; second, the militarization of state and society confuses who can legally purvey violence on behalf of the state; third, the regime engineers law to mask exceptional acts of state violence as lawful; and finally, spectacular and public acts of violence, such as elite assassinations, create widespread speculation about and fear of exceptional state violence. As a result, state violence is unpredictable both in its intensity and its accountability. The manipulation of the relationship between lawful and exceptional violence produces and sustains both fear and hope, making it difficult for ordinary citizens to manage or ignore the possibility of state intervention.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-118
Author(s):  
Marlene Schäfers ◽  
Esin Düzel
Keyword(s):  
Special Section ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Western Sahara ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
Gendered Expectations

Abstract How are resistance movements able to sustain political commitment and morale amid ongoing state violence? How do conflicts over sovereignty find articulation in contestations over affective belonging and moral values, thereby shaping intimate lives and gendered subjectivities? The five articles gathered in this special section take up these questions by ethnographically considering the complex internal dynamics of resistance movements in Kurdistan, Kashmir, and Western Sahara. They explore how these movements' struggles for alternative sovereignties and against colonial occupation and dispossession are translated into gendered expectations of loyalty, accusations of betrayal, and practices of critique. Investigating how Kurdish, Sahrawi, and Kashmiri militants, activists, and followers of resistance movements navigate the binary logics of loyalty and critique that violent conflict and occupation have rendered central to their lives, this special section shines new light on the morality of resistance and the gender of militancy.

Attachment Styles, Physical Proximity, and Relational Satisfaction

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-112
Author(s):  
Anita Shrivastava ◽  
Andrea Burianova
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Distinct Type ◽  
Relational Satisfaction ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Avoidant Attachment ◽  
Geographic Separation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Attachment Dimensions

This study aimed to explore the relationships between attachment styles, proximity, and relational satisfaction. This was achieved by assessing a distinct type of long distance romantic relationship of flying crews, compared with proximal (non-flying crew) romantic relationships. The responses of 139 expatriate professionals revealed significant associations between proximity and anxious and avoidant attachment dimensions. The role of the avoidant dimension in comparison with that of the anxious dimension was found to be a significant predictor of relational satisfaction. This study contributes significantly toward addressing the role of proximity and attachment in relational satisfaction in a new context of geographic separation.

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