Everyday Life After the Conflict CB

The Impact of Devolution and Cross-Border Cooperation
Herausgeber: Mcgrattan, Cillian; Meehan, Elizabeth

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Produktbeschreibung

Everyday life after the Irish conflict is the first book to address the specific topic of the intersection of the processes of conflict transformation and devolution with daily life in Northern Ireland in a rigorous and systematic fashion. Bringing together new research from established academics, new voices and civil society actors, this book documents the changes that have occurred in people's everyday lives as the region moves away from a violent past. The establishment of new constitutional arrangements designed to overcome conflict is not the same as building a peaceful and inclusive society that transforms the everyday lives of people. With this in mind, this book asks several questions that have up until now gone under-researched: How have unprecedented transformations in the political culture and economic well-being of Northern Ireland impacted upon various aspects of people's lives? What have these changes meant for such politically charged issues as health care, employment, education, segregated living, gender and socio-economic inequality? What improvements to people's day-to-day lives have occurred and what more needs to be done? Supported with a wealth of new empirical material, the book charts the impact of devolution and conflict transformation in four parts: an overview of the changes is followed by chapters that explore the areas of space, place and human relations. The third part looks at economic and social life while a concluding chapter takes a comparative approach by addressing the differences and similarities between the Northern Irish and Scottish experiences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780719087288
• ISBN-10: 0719087287
• Artikelnr.: 36053882

Autorenporträt

Cillian McGrattan is Lecturer in Politics at the University of the West of Scotland and Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for British-Irish Studies, University College, Dublin Elizabeth Meehan is Professor Emerita in the Law School at Queen's University, Belfast and Visiting Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, University College, Dublin

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction and context 1 Introduction: The politics of everyday
life Cillian McGrattan and Elizabeth Meehan 2 The rocky road from enmity
Duncan Morrow Part 2 Space, place and human relations in Northern Ireland 3
Routine divisions: segregation and daily life in Northern Ireland Neil
Jarman and John Bell 4 Promoting good relations: the role of schools in
Northern Ireland Joanne Hughes and Caitlin Donnelly 5 Everyday
evangelicals: life in a religious subculture after the Agreement Gladys
Ganiel and Claire Mitchell 6 'Sometimes it would be nice to be a man':
negotiating gender identities after the Good Friday Agreement. Theresa
O'Keefe 7 Women's political participation Bronagh Hinds Part 3 Cross-border
dimensions of everyday economic and social life 8 The impact of devolution
on everyday life, 1999-2010: the case of cross-border commerce Aidan Gough
and Eoin Magennis 9 A common floor of rights protection? The Belfast
Agreement, 'equivalence of rights' and the North-South dimension Colm
O'Cinneide 10 Realising the potential for cross border service provision:
lessons from the health sector Brian Ó Caoindealbhain and Patricia Clarke
Part 4 Conclusion; a comparative perspective on inclusion in everyday
political life 11 A 'new politics' of participation? Elizabeth Meehan and
Fiona Mackay