Preview the upcoming American Sociological Review article by Laura Acosta @lauraacostag.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social on how inventing political adversaries can create real civil division + be sure to listen to the podcast interview w/ the author for additional insights!
"Fabricating Communists: The Imagined Third That Reinvented the National Fault Line in Mid-Twentieth-Century Colombia’s Civil War" Available OnlineFirst here: doi.org/10.1177/0003...
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🚨Publication day! What happens when politicians fabricate enemies in political discourse? When do those enemies become real? And when does enemy fabrication trigger civil war? I answer these questions and more in my new article (1/2)
Diego Gambetta and Thomas Hegghammer’s ed. volume Fight, Flight, Mimic is one of the first collections of studies of diverse cases that address these questions.
I wrote a book review for the European Journal of Sociology, go check it out! Available on FirstView here:
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Why do wartime actors pretend to be members of the enemy group? And how do they protect themselves against similar acts of deception? These questions illuminate a broad range of conflict dynamics, from how actors define strategic targets and develop military tactics to how they mitigate risks. (1/2)
