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Ethnicizing the subject

Domestic violence and the politics of primordialism in Kazakhstan

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ID2266936
AuthorsEdward Snajdr (0000-0003-2044-7646, City University of New York, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume13
Issue3
Pages603-620
Publication date2007-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9655.2007.00446.x
OpenAlexW2063884477
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited38

This article examines how people understand domestic violence through primordialist notions of ethnicity in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Drawing on fieldwork among police, victim advocates, and Muslim activists, I examine how these groups ethnically frame, or 'ethnicize', the topic of domestic violence, its victims and perpetrators, as well as its root causes and possible remedies. From explaining away ineffective policing to blaming past imperialism, I show how ethnicizing violence has political significance for these different stakeholders, whose assertions about gender behaviour and the function of the law compete with one another in a multi-ethnic state's transition from communism. I also discuss not only how these disparate identity positionings serve as local explanations and/or solutions, but also how they may inevitably contribute to concealing the problem.RésuméL'auteur étudie la manière dont certains peuples appréhendent la violence familiale à travers des notions primordialistes d'appartenance ethnique dans le Kazakhstan post-soviétique. À partir d'un travail de terrain dans les milieux de la police, des défenseurs des droits des victimes et des activistes musulmans, il étudie la manière dont ces groupes inscrivent dans une argumentation ethnique ou « ethnicisent » la question de la violence familiale, de ses victimes et de ses auteurs, ainsi que de ses causes fondamentales et des remèdes possibles. De la justification de l'inefficacité policière à l'incrimination de l'impérialisme passé, l'auteur montre comment l'ethnicisation de la violence a une signification politique pour ces différents groupes. Leurs affirmations sur les comportements de genre et le fonctionnement de la loi se font concurrence dans le contexte de l'émergence d'un État multi-ethnique sorti du communisme. Par ailleurs, il examine non seulement la manière dont ces positionnements identitaires disparates servent d'explications et ou de solutions locales, mais aussi comment ils peuvent inévitablement contribuer à masquer le problème

Criminology · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Subject (documents · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Philosophy · Soviet and Russian History

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