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Departing from the mainstream practice and conventional wisdom of materialist and rationalist accounts of internal and intrastate conflicts, this book demonstrates how and why emotions, symbolic predispositions, and perceptions are just as powerful and useful in understanding and explaining these phenomena.
List of contents
- 1: Imagined Insecurities in Imagined Communities
- 2: Ethnoreligious Otherings and Passionate Conflicts: Emotions, Symbols, and Perceptions
- 3: Dinner with an Ex-terrorist Bomber in Jakarta: Otherings and Conflicts in Indonesia
- 4: The Proud Hotel Termite Inspector of Yangon: Otherings and Conflicts in Myanmar
- 5: Riding in Taxi with a Mosque-phobic Driver from Manila: Otherings and Conflicts in the Philippines
- 6: The Divine Tragedy of Securing the Sacred
About the author
Michael Magcamit is a Lecturer in Security Studies in the School of History, Politics, and International Relations at the University of Leicester. Prior to joining Leicester, he was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Queen Mary University of London and where he is also currently a Visiting Research Fellow. Before moving to the United Kingdom, he was an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Musashi University in Tokyo, Japan on a joint program between the University of London (LSE) and Musashi. His works on international security issues have appeared in prominent outlets in Political Science and International Relations.
Summary
Departing from the mainstream practice and conventional wisdom of materialist and rationalist accounts of internal and intrastate conflicts, this book demonstrates how and why emotions, symbolic predispositions, and perceptions are just as powerful and useful in understanding and explaining these phenomena.
