Resource depletion, distrust, and ethnic politics jointly trigger social unrest

Evidence

In Kenya, which boasts some forty ethnicities, the sources of ethnic tension are complex, but have often been especially explosive along the fault lines between pastoralists and farmers where resources are overstressed. Divisive politicians have manipulated these tensions to their advantage, for instance, during the violence that beset the Rift Valley, Nyanza, and Western provinces in the early 1990s and, more broadly, during the aftermath of the disputed national elections of 2007. The slow violence of resource depletion, a mistrust of government, and political leaders who play the ethnic card can easily kindle an atmosphere of terror that fuels social unrest. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1163

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s goal of understanding causal mechanics of invisibility: it names resource-depletion slow violence as an ingredient in predicating the explosive pastoralist-farmer fault lines, echoing the settler-colonial and land/place threads of the Eco-Justice polyad. — connects to: Resource rebellions stem from a clash between short-term extractors and long-term residents — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 51; Perceived resource scarcity combined with a competitive outgroup triggers instrumental prejudice. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1489; The world’s ethnic diversity and natural resource wealth coincide geographically with extractive violence — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1376 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Perceived resource scarcity combined with a competitive outgroup triggers instrumental prejudice. #expands (0.75) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1489
• The world’s ethnic diversity and natural resource wealth coincide geographically with extractive violence #corroborates (0.75) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1376
• Aversive racism and unconscious bias breed miscommunication and distrust #expands (0.72) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 715