scholarly journals The media interpretation of the ethnic conflict as an act of deontologisation of the ethnic group

2018 ◽  
pp. 346-351
Author(s):  
Armine G. Kazaryan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
The Media

Managing Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka through Constitutional Arrangements

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Ilam Khan
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Political Liberalization ◽  
History Of

Marginalization causes conflicts; they may be political, social, or economic. A careful contemplation over the history of Sri Lanka reveals that the sentiments of being marginalized have been present — in one (ethnic) group or the other — in the island right from its independence. When the majority ethnic group, i.e., the Sinhala, was in a position of power, it manipulated the constitution of the country to safeguard its own interests. This widened the rift among different ethnic and religious groups, especially between the Sinhala and the Tamil. This structural marginalization resulted in a civil war, starting in 1983, that lasted for 26 years. However, the ethnic conflict did not resolve even after the end of the civil war and continues to exist in the form of a political struggle between the Tamil and Sinhala. The Tamil demand for federation, autonomy, inclusion, and self-determination can only be achieved through constitutional means. Therefore, this research evaluates the post-Civil Warconstitutional development and amendment processes that were, at a point in time, more pluralistic and liberal, and contributing well to managing the ethnic conflict in the country. It was expected that the ethnic conflict would be permanently resolved through the constitutional arrangements, which Sri Lanka was already heading. However, the majority (Sinhala) reversed the progress through a new (20th) amendment to the constitution. Against this backdrop, this article argues that all segments of the society can be accommodated in the political sphere of the state through political liberalization which is possible only through constitutional arrangements.

Attitudes About Immigration

2019 ◽  
pp. 146-177
Author(s):  
Edward Telles ◽  
Christina A. Sue
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
American Identity ◽  
American Population ◽  
Attitudes Toward Immigrants ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
Mexican Heritage ◽  
The Media

This chapter addresses Mexican Americans’ attitudes about Mexican immigrants in the context of mass immigration. In addition to the boundary that exists between persons of Mexican heritage and non-Latinos, there is another important social boundary operating that highlights Mexican Americans’ understandings of their own ethnicity and American identity—the boundary between Mexican immigrants and themselves. Study respondents displayed a broad range of attitudes toward immigrants, illustrating the internal diversity of the Mexican American population, which runs contrary to their treatment in the media as a homogeneous ethnic group in terms of attitudes, politics, and voting. This chapter also demonstrates the underlying ideologies, philosophies, and rationales that respondents used to justify their immigration positions: whereas many framed their views based on American ideals, only a small minority framed them in terms of their ethnicity, basing their perceptions in an understanding of Mexican immigrants as co-ethnics.

scholarly journals Representation of Ethnic Conflict in the Media in the Post-Soviet Period

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 519-534
Author(s):  
Elizaveta V. Rodionova ◽  
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Kseniia A. Balan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The Media ◽  
Post Soviet Period

scholarly journals Ajakan Rekonsiliasi yang Bertepuk Sebelah Tangan (Analisis Komentar Video “Jangan Panggil Aku Cina” di Youtube)

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Redi Panuju
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
Visual Semiotics ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Media

The issue of sentiment towards the Chinese ethnic in Indonesia often creates social conflict that threatens the integration of the nation. Some of the riots that put the Chinese ethnic into the target of mass violence show that this sentiment is not merely latent, but often a tragedy. The development of information and communication technology contributes to strengthen the conflict or otherwise reduce it. One of the media that often become a channel of inter-ethnic conflict is Youtube. Through this medium can be reviewed how the message is communicated so it could be known as hidden problems. This article examines a video “Jangan Panggil Aku Cina” on Youtube who gets a very wide YouTuber visit and gets comments from the pro and contra. This study uses the Intertextuality Analysis method in visual semiotics from Julio Kristiva. The results show that text permutations tend to be based on stereotypical views and prejudices that place Chinese ethnic as a bad ethnic. Among them are not struggling in independence, tend to be oriented to ancestral lands, tend to be exclusive, and have an agenda to control Indonesia as Chinese ethnic dominates Singapore and get rid of Malays ethnic. The permutation of the text framed by the prejudice results in a reductive text, as it ignores the facts of Chinese ethnic service in the economic, political, media and literary fields.   Persoalan sentiment terhadap etnis Cina di Indonesia kerap menimbulkan konflik sosial yang mengancam integrasi bangsa. Beberapa kerusuhan yang menempatkan etnis Cina sebagai sasaran amuk massa menunjukkan bahwa sentiment ini tidak sekedar bersifat laten (tersembunyi), melainkan kerap menjadi tragedi. Perkembangan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi turut memberi andil dalam menguatkan konflik atau sebaliknya meredamnya. Salah satu media yang kerap menjadi saluran konflik antar etnis ini adalah Youtube. Melalui media ini dapat ditelaah bagaimana pesan dikomunikasikan sehingga dapat diketahui masalah masalah yang tersembunyi. Artikel ini mengkaji sebuah video berjudul “Jangan Panggil Aku Cina” di Youtube yang mendapat kunjungan youtuber sangat luas dan mendapat komentar dari yang pro dan kontra. Kajian ini menggunakan metode analisis intertekstualitas dalam semiotika visual dari Julia Kristeva, yang menekankan pada model analisis permutasi teks. Hasil kajian menunjukkan bahwa permutasi teks cenderung dilandasi pandangan stereotip dan prasangka sehingga menempatkan etnis Cina sebagai etnis yang buruk. Di antaranya tidak ikut berjuang dalam kemerdekaan, cenderung berorientasi ke negeri leluhur, cenderung ekslusif, dan punya agenda akan menguasai Indonesia seperti etnis Cina menguasai Singapura dan menyingkirkan etnis Melayu. Permutasi teks yang dibingkai prasangka tersebut menghasilkan teks teks yang bersifat reduktif, karena mengabaikan fakta fakta jasa etnis Cina di bidang ekonomi, politik, media, dan sastra.  

scholarly journals The Hutsuls in South Bukovina: from Rural Tradition to Sustainable Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Despina Saghin ◽  
Elena Matei ◽  
Ioana Cojocaru ◽  
Gabriela Manea ◽  
Octavian Cocoş
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
National Level ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Folk Traditions ◽  
Pastoral Area ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

Abstract The Hutsuls, an ethnic group belonging to the Bukovina’s agro-forestry and pastoral area, still preserve ancient folk traditions which generate friendly practices and attitudes towards the environment. Globalisation and modernisation have brought about changes in the local rural traditions which, on the one hand, threaten their singularity, and on the other hand, set the stage for a new start. The paper aims to analysethe perception of the Bukovina’s communities on the tradition-sustainable development relations considered from a double perspective: the Hutsuls’ traditions and the evolution of the group itself under changes in Romania in the last 25 years. Consequently, our approach has sought to make a correlation between the information collected from the scientific literature, the answers given in a field survey and the opinions expressed in the media concerning this subject. The results of the study have shown that both the occupations and the traditions of the Hutsul ethnics, as well as their spiritual and cultural life, are strongly linked to the natural elements of the environment which the Hutsuls consider to be the basic resources for their existence. However, given that nowadays young people migrate abroad, the community’s perception is indicative of a particular concern to do with the viability of this ethnic group; that is, the human right to turn to modernisation and the efficiency of multicultural policies application in Romania. The study is hence useful from several points of view: it can disseminate information on a national level concerning this little-known ethnicity; it can promote the role of the ethnic groups in reaching the local objectives of sustainable development; and it can supply the authorities with the necessary information for taking the right decissions, be they political, cultural, economic or demographic.

Sex, lies and thematising Irish

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Kelly-Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Online Discussion ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
National Language ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Online Discussion Forum ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Group A ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject

Thematising Irish in the media reflects the complex and contradictory sociolinguistic and language-ideological situation in Ireland. This article explores some of that complexity by investigating a thread on an online discussion forum on the subject of the first ever party leaders’ debate in Irish that took place during the 2011 general election in Ireland. In the discussion thread, three particular discourses emerge: a “discourse of truth” about Irish as lacking both authority as a national language and authenticity as a minority language of a recognizable ethnic group; a discourse of “them and us”; involving a differentiation between “Irish speakers” and “non-Irish speakers”, largely based on notions of competence; and, finally, a newly emerging discourse of “sexy Irish”, which signals a commodification of Irish speakers as young, beautiful and mediatisable. The features of the forum and the online, real-time evolution of the discussion thread impact in a number of ways upon these discourses and ideologies. However, despite the possibilities afforded by the forum, which are utilized by posters for performing Irish in different ways, these everyday practices are effectively erased and invalidated by the prevailing discourses, which rely strongly on the notion of bilingualism as parallel and discrete monolingualisms.

Dangerous neighborhoods: State behavior and the spread of ethnic conflict

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 447-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Konaev ◽  
Kirstin J.H. Brathwaite
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
Political Opportunity ◽  
State Behavior ◽  
State Action ◽  
Bivariate Probit Model ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
International Borders

This article argues that the spread of ethnic conflict across international borders is a result of purposive repressive state action combined with political opportunity which allows the ethnic group to mobilize in response. We test our argument using a bivariate probit model to simultaneously estimate the risk of repression escalation and the spread of ethnic conflict (1976–2009), and find that the likelihood of both increases in the presence of relatively large, territorially concentrated transnational ethnic groups, and that nationalist governments are more likely to escalate repression amidst nearby ethnic violence. Political crises also exacerbate the risk of ethnic conflict spread.

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