Northern Ireland After the Troubles CB

A Society in Transition
Herausgeber: Coulter, Colin; Murray, Michael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the last generation, Northern Ireland has undergone a tortuous yet remarkable process of social and political change. This collection of essays aims to capture the complex and shifting realities of a society in the process of transition from war to peace. The book brings together commentators from a range of academic backgrounds and political perspectives. As well as focusing upon those political divisions and disputes that are most readily associated with Northern Ireland, it provides a rather broader focus than is conventionally found in books on the region. It examines the cultural identities and cultural practices that are essential to the formation and understanding of Northern Irish society but are neglected in academic analyses of the six counties. While the contributors often approach issues from rather different angles, they share a common conviction of the need to challenge the self-serving simplifications and choreographed optimism that frequently define both official discourse and media commentary on Northern Ireland. Taken together, the essays offer a comprehensive and critical account of a troubled society in the throes of change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 165mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780719074400
• ISBN-10: 0719074401
• Artikelnr.: 23305800

Autorenporträt

Colin Coulter is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Michael Murray is Lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Adult and Community Education, the National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables List of figures Acknowledgements 1. Northern Ireland after
the troubles? An introduction to the book - Colin Coulter and Michael
Murray PART I: POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND DIVISIONS 2. Telling stories,
facing truths: memory, justice and post-conflict transition in Northern
Ireland - Patricia Lundy and Mark McGovern 3. From conflict to communal
politics: the politics of peace in Northern Ireland - Jonathan Tonge 4.
Belfast: a segregated city - Peter Shirlow 5. Spatial planning in contested
territory: the search for a place vision in 'post-troubles' Northern
Ireland - William J.V.Neill and Geraint Ellis 6. Policing change in
Northern Ireland: to reform or not to transform? - Mary O'Rawe PART II:
SOCIAL IDENTITIES 7. Religious change and persistence in contemporary
Northern Ireland - Claire Mitchell 8. Gender and ethno-nationalist politics
in Northern Ireland - Fidelma Ashe 9. The glacier moves? Economic change
and class structure in Northern Ireland - Jim Smyth and Andreas Cebulla 10.
Whiteness, racism and exclusion in Northern Ireland: a critical race
perspective - Paul Connolly and Romana Khaoury PART III: CULTURAL PRACTICES
11. Still taking sides: sport, leisure and identity in Northern Ireland -
Alan Bairner 12. From shellshock rock to ceasefire sounds: popular music in
Northern Ireland - Sean Campbell and Gerry Smyth 13. Housetraining the
paramilitaries: the media and the propaganda of peace in Northern Ireland -
Stephen Baker and Greg McLaughlin