Identity, Violence and Power

Part I. Critique

1. Hateful Groups and Weak Powers?
Guy Elcheroth, Stephen Reicher

2. Evil Leaders and Obedient Masses?
Guy Elcheroth, Stephen Reicher

Part II. Model

3. Identity: The Group as a Collective Performance
Guy Elcheroth, Stephen Reicher

4. Violence: How Collective Shocks Transform Social Practices
Guy Elcheroth, Stephen Reicher

5. Power: The Role of Leadership at Critical Junctures
Guy Elcheroth, Stephen Reicher

Part III. Case Studies

6. Riots, Religion and the Mobilisation of Communal Hatred in India (with-Rakshi Rath)
Guy Elcheroth, Stephen Reicher

7. Ethnic Violence in the Former Yugoslavia: From Myth to Reality (with Sandra Penic)
Guy Elcheroth, Stephen Reicher

8. British Warriors and Scottish Voters: When ‘Rallying the Nation’ Backfires
Guy Elcheroth, Stephen Reicher

Keywords: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Ethnicity Studies, Conflict Studies, Self and Identity