Stigma is a corrosive social force by which individuals and communities throughout history
have been systematically dehumanised, scapegoated and oppressed. From the literal …

that situates current political debates within a deep postcolonial history of biopolitics,
population control, and citizenship policies. Tracing patterns of colonial relations, Sharma …

On 25 January 2011, Egyptian police shot and killed Mustafa Ragab Mahmoud, a nineteen-
year-old high school dropout, in the Arbayeen district of the Suez. Mahmoud, one of several …

Indian party politics, commonly viewed as chaotic, clientelistic, and corrupt, is nevertheless a
model for deepening democracy and accommodating diversity. Historically, though …

Large Language Models (LLMs), now used daily by millions of users, can encode societal
biases, exposing their users to representational harms. A large body of scholarship on LLM …

In this article, I study the role that threatening events play in shaping both the occurrence
and the distribution of intergroup conflict. Using the case of anti-refugee attacks in Germany …

Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason
Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of …

Thousands rioted in London in August 2011, with the police losing control of parts of the city
for four days. This event was not an ethnic riot: participants were ethnically diverse and did …

It is difficult to imagine forces in the modern world as potent as nationalism and religion. Both
provide people with a source of meaning, each has motivated individuals to carry out …

Ethnic group conflict is among the most serious threats facing young democracies. In this
paper, we investigate whether the partisanship of incumbent politicians affects the incidence …