How Homelands Change?

Shelef, Nadav G.

doi:10.4324/9781351117623-7

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“…We know, however, that the salience of symbolic attachments does vary. 98 Assessing the relevance of temporal variation in the salience of symbolic territory, likely in individual cases, remains for future work.…”

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“…36 Recent research on international territorial conflict supports this notion. 37 Manekin, Grossman, and Mitts, 38 for instance, argue that territorial features are usefully conceptualized as political preferences rather than territorial characteristics. I acknowledge the relevance of value construction processes and stress that symbolic territorial attachments are at once factual and posses constructed meaning.…”

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“…However, sources of emotional attachments are more diverse, and recent research demonstrates that the challenges to quantification can be overcome. 7 The second debate I speak to addresses strategic choices in subnational conflicts. Existing work shows that armed resistance is more likely with higher degrees of exclusion from state power.…”

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Why Escalate?: Symbolic Territory and Strategy Choice in Conflicts Over Self-Determination

Kelle

2021

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

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The quest for self-determination on the basis of shared identities motivates many subnational conflicts worldwide, but our understanding of the linkages between identity, contested land, and strategies is incomplete. What role do symbolic territorial attachments play for strategy choice in self-determination demands? I argue that groups tend to escalate their demands if they can exploit mobilization advantages of symbolic territory, creating identity-based territorial focal points for mobilization. I present new data on strategy choice in self-determination demands worldwide between 2005 and 2015. Using multinomial logit estimations, I find that symbolic territory contributes to limited degrees of escalation, and discourages armed conflict.

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Why Escalate?: Symbolic Territory and Strategy Choice in Conflicts Over Self-Determination

Kelle

2021

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

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“…Adopting an explicitly constructivist perspective, Shelef (2016) examines how changes in conceptions of national homelands affect the risk of interstate disputes (see also Shelef 2020). Based on discursive evidence, this analysis captures “homeland territoriality,” which reflects nationalists' valuation of a given territory.…”

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Redemption through Rebellion: Border Change, Lost Unity, and Nationalist Conflict

Cederman

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Schvitz

2021

American J Political Sci

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Are past border changes responsible for today's civil wars? Departing from conventional, state‐centric research designs, this article examines this question by focusing on “aggregate” ethnic groups, which are defined independently of state borders. Introducing a new index of “territorial fractionalization” that measures how fragmented such groups are across states, we postulate that higher fragmentation is linked to a greater risk of civil conflict. Furthermore, we expect that groups that experienced increases in fragmentation are particularly violence prone, as illustrated by postimperial revisionism and other cases of irredentism and secession. To test our arguments, we combine geocoded data on ethnic settlement areas with our own newly collected data on international borders since 1886, complemented by mediation analysis based on ethnonationalist claims. Covering ethnic groups around the world since 1946 through 2017, our findings are robust to the inclusion of control variables, fixed effects, and the use of alternative historical ethnicity data sets.

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“…Second, we know from international territorial conflicts that the extent of the territory that group members identify as the homeland might vary over time (cf. Shelef, 2020). This variation in homeland definition might be a function of the contestation processes with the government, or a result of other incentive structures, such as resource availability.…”

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Beyond belief: How religion fosters self‐determination

Kelle

2021

Nations and Nationalism

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Religious conflicts are an enduring feature of domestic and international politics. This article offers the first systematic quantitative treatment of religion in nationalist demands for autonomy or independence on a global scale. I argue that subnational groups capitalizing on mobilization advantages from sacred land are more likely to demand self-rule. Sacred places link collective identities to the contested territory, which is the main conflict issue in self-determination demands. I rely on data on sacred land and religious identification of subnational groups worldwide and compare claimants and non-claiming groups to capture the effect of sacred land on self-determination. The analysis supports the expectation that sacred land and religious identities are closely linked to demand incidence. The findings shed light on the understudied relation between religion and selfdetermination and improve our understanding of the significance of sacred places on a global comparative scale.

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How Homelands Change?

Cited by 5 publications

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Why Escalate?: Symbolic Territory and Strategy Choice in Conflicts Over Self-Determination

Why Escalate?: Symbolic Territory and Strategy Choice in Conflicts Over Self-Determination

Redemption through Rebellion: Border Change, Lost Unity, and Nationalist Conflict

Beyond belief: How religion fosters self‐determination

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