Burnings, beatings, and bombings: disaggregating anti-Christian violence in Egypt, 2013-2018
What are the determinants of ethnic violence? Existing research has forwarded a range of often competing explanations, from political opportunism to economic competition to state incapacity. We argue that this diversity of accounts is attributable, in part, to scholars’ tendency to lump together dis...
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| description | What are the determinants of ethnic violence? Existing research has forwarded a range of often competing explanations, from political opportunism to economic competition to state incapacity. We argue that this diversity of accounts is attributable, in part, to scholars’ tendency to lump together distinct forms of ethnic violence that have different underlying determinants. We propose that scholars instead disaggregate ethnic violence and put forward a typology based on the target of the attack (properties vs. individuals) and whether assailants use arms. We demonstrate the utility of this typology by applying it to an original dataset of ethnic attacks against Christians in Egypt from 2013 to 2018. In addition to a set of shared factors, we find that unarmed attacks against property (“burnings”) are the product of political mobilization, unarmed attacks against individuals (“beatings”) are related to socioeconomic tensions, and armed attacks (“bombings”) follow the strategic logic of terrorist violence. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:5d9c702a-f055-4c68-98ea-2b84577096b92024-08-15T09:51:18ZBurnings, beatings, and bombings: disaggregating anti-Christian violence in Egypt, 2013-2018Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:5d9c702a-f055-4c68-98ea-2b84577096b9EnglishSymplectic ElementsCambridge University Press2022Barrie, CClarke, KKetchley, NWhat are the determinants of ethnic violence? Existing research has forwarded a range of often competing explanations, from political opportunism to economic competition to state incapacity. We argue that this diversity of accounts is attributable, in part, to scholars’ tendency to lump together distinct forms of ethnic violence that have different underlying determinants. We propose that scholars instead disaggregate ethnic violence and put forward a typology based on the target of the attack (properties vs. individuals) and whether assailants use arms. We demonstrate the utility of this typology by applying it to an original dataset of ethnic attacks against Christians in Egypt from 2013 to 2018. In addition to a set of shared factors, we find that unarmed attacks against property (“burnings”) are the product of political mobilization, unarmed attacks against individuals (“beatings”) are related to socioeconomic tensions, and armed attacks (“bombings”) follow the strategic logic of terrorist violence. |
| spellingShingle | Barrie, C Clarke, K Ketchley, N Burnings, beatings, and bombings: disaggregating anti-Christian violence in Egypt, 2013-2018 |
| title | Burnings, beatings, and bombings: disaggregating anti-Christian violence in Egypt, 2013-2018 |
| title_full | Burnings, beatings, and bombings: disaggregating anti-Christian violence in Egypt, 2013-2018 |
| title_fullStr | Burnings, beatings, and bombings: disaggregating anti-Christian violence in Egypt, 2013-2018 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Burnings, beatings, and bombings: disaggregating anti-Christian violence in Egypt, 2013-2018 |
| title_short | Burnings, beatings, and bombings: disaggregating anti-Christian violence in Egypt, 2013-2018 |
| title_sort | burnings beatings and bombings disaggregating anti christian violence in egypt 2013 2018 |
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