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Identity, Belonging, and Conflict: Symbolic Borders of Community

Identity, Belonging, and Conflict: Symbolic Borders of Community

Ziya Kıvanç Kıraç
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781799889113|ISBN10: 1799889114|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799889120|EISBN13: 9781799889137
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8911-3.ch010
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Kıraç, Ziya Kıvanç. "Identity, Belonging, and Conflict: Symbolic Borders of Community." Handbook of Research on Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Conflicts and Their Impact on State and Social Security, edited by Emilia Alaverdov and Muhammad Waseem Bari, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 153-168. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8911-3.ch010

APA

Kıraç, Z. K. (2022). Identity, Belonging, and Conflict: Symbolic Borders of Community. In E. Alaverdov & M. Bari (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Conflicts and Their Impact on State and Social Security (pp. 153-168). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8911-3.ch010

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Kıraç, Ziya Kıvanç. "Identity, Belonging, and Conflict: Symbolic Borders of Community." In Handbook of Research on Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Conflicts and Their Impact on State and Social Security, edited by Emilia Alaverdov and Muhammad Waseem Bari, 153-168. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8911-3.ch010

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Abstract

The concept of community is a controversial concept in terms of social sciences. However, today, when considered together with the concepts of identity and belonging, it can be said that the community has strong connotations. Where the community begins and ends is explained by the concept of boundary. The inside or outside of the border is a map of meaning. Because giving meaning to complex nature and society is one of the most important needs of human beings, the crisis of meaning created by modern times for humanity has led to the strengthening of grand narratives. The narratives, which propose various ways of life for the salvation of humanity, especially make use of symbols and symbolic forms. Because symbols are carriers of meaning, in this study, the identity factor, which constitutes the essence of the endless conflicts in the world, has been investigated with the symbolic constructs of the ideological view. For this, a connection has been established between identity, belonging and the community, which includes the meaning of collective action.

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