Peace, War, and Social Conflict Panel Session: Culture and Conflict

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

“Culture” and “conflict” are multifaceted social phenomena. How they intersect and shape each other has long been an important topic for sociological research. This panel continues this tradition by exploring how cultural meanings and practices affect forms of and capacity for conflict, and how different experiences of conflict in turn shape meaning systems (values, systems of classification, boundaries, and the like). The topics our panels explore include: ethnosexual boundaries as one dynamic of conflict, using the case of Nazi Berlin; classification battles in wartime and how systems of categorization are crucial to the act of war; riots as webs of interaction rituals (following the lead of Randall Collins on violence and conflict generally); Russian attitudes to war and the role of denial in balancing acknowledging the war in Ukraine in an authoritarian regime that caused that war; and causal forces in the socialization of violence, using the case of the January 6 riots.

Sub Unit

• Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section / Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section Open Call Paper Session

Presider

• Michael Zaslavsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Individual Presentations

• Collective Violence as an Interaction Ritual Web - David C. Sorge, Bryn Mawr College

• How Dare You Compare?! Classificatory Battles in Wartime - Hamutal (Tali) Jaffe-Dax, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Pathways to Insurgency among Violent and Nonviolent Convicts of the January 6 U.S. Capitol Insurrection - Ana Velitchkova, University of Mississippi; Ava Horton; John Amburgy; Sarah Dapaah, The University of Mississippi; Taufiqul Bari, University of Mississippi

• Policing Ethnosexual Boundaries: Rassenschande Denunciations in Nazi Berlin - Elena Marilin Amaya, University of California-Berkeley

• The Role of Denial in Shaping Russian Support for the War Against Ukraine - Natalia Savelyeva, UW Madison

Session Organizer

• Jeffrey Hass, University of Richmond