Equating National Borders with Ethnic Identity
How a Contemporary Heuristic Distorts Perceptions of Historical Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12891780 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucas B Mazur (0000-0002-7816-588X, Jagiellonian University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-15 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9057 • E-ISSN: 1744-9065 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449057.2025.2476825 |
| OpenAlex | W4408926134 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
An experimental study conducted in the United States, Germany, and Poland shows that by presenting WWII violence within different national borders we differently understand the collective identities of the people involved and thereby make different assessments of collective responsibility. Perceptions of Polish, German, and French responsibility were higher when the violence was presented as having taken place in Poland, Germany, or France, respectively. This blurring of national and ethnic identity can turn historical victims into perpetrators and even make historical perpetrators and/or historical victims disappear. The implications of this finding for how we teach and commemorate historical violence are discussed
Criminology · Epistemology · Equating · Ethnic group · Ethnic violence · Heuristic · Identity (music · National identity · Perception · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Bloodlands
Sorting Things Out
The Victim
The Jews and Antisemitism
Where the violence happened matters. Geopolitical framing and assessments of collective responsibility for historical violence
Imagined communities
Cognitive maps
Violence sits in places? Cultural practice, neoliberal rationalism, and virulent imaginative geographies
How are they othered? Globalisation, identity and violence in an Indian city
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |