An exploration of how so-called ordinary people can disrupt violent conflict and forge peace.
In this pathbreaking book, Roger Mac Ginty explores everyday peace-or how individuals …

Understanding Sectarianism successfully accomplishes its important purpose of replacing
the unhelpful term 'Sectarianism'with more restrictive and descriptive terms like 'sectarian …

Long a taboo topic, as well as one that has alarmed outside powers, sectarian conflict in the
Middle East is on the rise. The contributors to this book examine sectarian politics in the …

The primary aim of this article is methodological. It proposes circuitry as an analytical device–
not a mere metaphor–as a way of connecting the everyday and the hyper-local to the …

Shia/Sunni sectarianism figures prominently in post‐Arab uprising claims that the Middle
East is witnessing a darker kind of authoritarianism drawing on exclusionary and …

Based on empirical evidence and conceptual scoping, this article builds a typology of
everyday social practices in a deeply divided society. The typology distinguishes between …

The purpose of this Special Issue is to examine the nature, causes, and consequences of
the Middle East's current sectarian surge. Specifically, how might sectarianism and regime …

This meta‐study examines the nature of past and current theoretically informed debates on
sectarian politics in the Middle East and identifies the biggest challenges and possible …

This paper examines ethno‐symbolic and instrumental explanations of ethnic and sectarian
identities placed within the constructivist turn in the study of political identity, both in the …

'The Legacy of Iraq'critically reflects on the abject failure of the 2003 intervention to turn Iraq
into a liberal democracy, underpinned by free-market capitalism, its citizens free to live in …