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This chapter examines the dynamic nature of protest mobilisation and state response within ethnic-national locales. People in these areas are sensitive to any form of de-territorialisation or re-territorialisation at the local level. Nationally, the state exercises repressive control over ethnic-national locales by seeking to avoid secessionist challenges and restricting conflict to the local level. For those inhabiting these areas, sovereignty is not an abstract idea but a lived and normal part of everyday life. The local architecture of the everyday, such as schools, shops, and parks, contests the architecture of local inclusion and exclusion. Murals and memorials stand in support of insurgents, national flags honour them, and graffiti taunts adversaries. All of these symbols demand communal solidarity. These sentiments are reinforced by the surrounding architecture of state sovereignty, such as observation towers, barracks, or armoured vehicles. Protest is highly volatile in these areas: a few stones thrown by teenagers at security forces after school can later degenerate into a shooting battle between older insurgents and state forces.
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Maguire, D. (2010). Local Space and Protest in Divided Societies. In: Guelke, A. (eds) The Challenges of Ethno-Nationalism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230282131_12
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