Abstract

This article seeks to nuance previous conceptions of the 1992 Abkhazian conflict by developing an alternative framework for understanding what is commonly known as ‘ethnic’ war. The resulting ‘non-framework’ conceptualises ethnicity and its mobilisation through a combination of constructivist and instrumentalist readings of ethnicity and nationalism with a radically contingent understanding of events. Creating a novel explanatory vector, this approach questions the nature of generalisable frameworks in themselves, suggesting the case of Tatarstan as a comparative example. To this extent, the model developed here suggests the analytical weakness of ‘ethnic’ war as an overarching category and urges us to treat each case within its own causal matrix.

摘要

本文试图通过开发一个替代框架来理解通常称为“种族”战争的概念，从而对 1992 年阿布哈兹冲突的先前概念进行细微差别。由此产生的“非框架”通过对种族和民族主义的建构主义和工具主义解读与对事件的彻底偶然理解相结合，将种族及其动员概念化。这种方法创建了一个新颖的解释向量，质疑可概括框架本身的性质，并建议将鞑靼斯坦作为比较示例。在这个程度上，这里开发的模型表明“种族”战争作为一个总体类别的分析弱点，并敦促我们在其自身的因果矩阵中处理​​每个案例。