2023
DOI: 10.1111/nana.12933
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The state, identity politics and ethnic boundaries in Afghanistan: The case of Sunni Hazaras

Abstract: In recent years, a growing number of activists in Afghanistan have been proactively self‐identifying as Sunni Hazaras. The trend demonstrates an important shift that illuminates how ethnic boundaries may change and evolve in response to elite politics and state policies in Afghanistan. Many of the communities that are the subjects of new collective identity discourses share important commonalities, including shared belief in a common origin, with the Shi'a Hazaras. However, because the Shi'a Hazaras were perse… Show more

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“…Although there is occasional friction between Shia and Sunni groups, the main line of conflict is between ethnic groups. The Hazaras, for example, are predominantly Shia (although a small number are Sunni) and face severe persecution, particularly from the Pashtuns, because of this identity, but members of this group identify themselves by ethnicity rather than sect ( [19], p. 670). In other words, this group does not identify itself as Shia or Sunni, but only as Hazara ( [18], p. 9).…”
Section: Afghan Afghani and Peştun: Different Identity Models And Pea...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although there is occasional friction between Shia and Sunni groups, the main line of conflict is between ethnic groups. The Hazaras, for example, are predominantly Shia (although a small number are Sunni) and face severe persecution, particularly from the Pashtuns, because of this identity, but members of this group identify themselves by ethnicity rather than sect ( [19], p. 670). In other words, this group does not identify itself as Shia or Sunni, but only as Hazara ( [18], p. 9).…”
Section: Afghan Afghani and Peştun: Different Identity Models And Pea...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sie verleiht damit der ethnischen Hierarchie eine gesetzliche Grundlage, die sich in vielen offiziellen Reden und sonstigen öffentlichen Aufzählungen bis hin zur ethnischen Zusammensetzung der Führung der meisten Regierungen manifestiert. 92 Diese Hierarchie folgt bemerkenswerterweise dem Ranking nach zahlenmäßiger Gruppenstärke, welches sich aus den thematisierten fragwürdigen Angaben zur prozentmäßigen ethnischen Zusammensetzung Afghanistans ergibt. Wenn man bedenkt, dass das Amt des Präsidenten seit 2004 immer ein Paschtune, das Amt des ersten Vizepräsidenten in der Regel ein Tadschike und das Amt des zweiten Vizepräsidenten immer ein Hazara innehatte, scheint sich in der afghanischen Politik stillschweigend ein politisches Machtaufteilungssystem nach dem Vorbild des libanesischen Konfessionalismus, allerdings auf der Grundlage von Ethnizität, etabliert zu haben.…”
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