A troubled sleep : risk and resilience in contemporary Northern Ireland / James Waller

Englisch

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

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Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe- Waller, James: A troubled sleep. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2021

978-0-19-009557-4 hardback

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-19-009559-8 (Fernzugriff) epub, 978-0-19-755875-1 (Fernzugriff) oso

Introduction: A Brutal Duality

Part I - Wounded Identities

"You're One or the Other" : Social Identities in Deeply Divided Societies

"Two Eyes on the Past" : Northern Ireland's Wounded History

Part II - Risk and Resilience in Contemporary Northern Ireland

"Was There Ever A Before?" : The Tyranny of Memory

"With Deep Regret and Reluctance" : Governance in a Deeply Divided Society

"The Walls Entered Into Our Souls" : Social Fragmentation in Everyday Life

Part III - A Troubled Sleep

"A Farewell to Peace?" : Escalating Risk and Fading Resilience

Conclusion: "I Hope It Wasn't All a Waste" : Northern Ireland At Its Centenary

10.1093/oso/9780190095574.001.0001

*Nordirland / Religiöser Konflikt / Gesellschaft / Spaltung / Politische Identität

*Group identity -- Northern Ireland ; Nationalism -- Northern Ireland ; Social conflict -- Northern Ireland ; Northern Ireland -- Social conditions -- 21st century

Vereinigtes Königreich / Nordirland / Nachkonfliktphase / Unsicherer Frieden / Konflikt zwischen Bevölkerungsgruppen / Soziale Konfliktlinien / Gruppenbildung / Kollektive Identität / Nationalismus / Sicherheitsrisiken / Resilienz

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: HN398.N6

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 306.09416

In contemporary Northern Ireland, more than two decades after the peace agreement that ended the thirty-year sectarian violence known as "the Troubles" the risk of a return to violent conflict is not only present but growing. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, comparative research, and over 110 hours of face-to-face interviews with a diverse range of political, academic, civil society, and community actors across Northern Ireland, A Troubled Sleep revisits one of the world's most deeply divided societies to analyze Northern Ireland's current vulnerabilities, and points of resilience, as an allegedly "post-conflict" society. By examining the Northern Ireland example, Waller presents deep insight into what happens when identity politics prevail over democracy, when a paralysis in governance leads to a political vacuum for extremist voices to exploit, when de facto social segregation becomes normalized, when acclimatization to violence becomes a generational legacy, and when questions of who we are become secondary to who we are not.

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