A troubled sleep : risk and resilience in contemporary Northern Ireland / James Waller.
By: Waller, James [author.]
.Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021Description: xv, 356 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780190095574; 9780190095598; 9780197558751.Subject(s): Group identity -- Northern Ireland | Nationalism -- Northern Ireland | Social conflict -- Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland -- Social conditions -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 306.09416 Summary: 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 after 110 hours of face-to-face interviews with a diverse range of political, acadademic, 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 vulnerabilites, and points of resilience, as an allegedly "post-conflict" society. By examining Northern Ireland as an example, Waller presents deep insights into what happens when identity politics prevail over democracy, when a paralysis in governance leads to a political vacuum that leaves spaces open for extremist voices to dominate, 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."-- Taken from dust jacket.
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| 306.094109051 WAL Life in the United Kingdom : | 306.094109051 WAL A practical guide to living in the United Kingdom / | 306.09416 LEG Northern Ireland and the politics of boredom : conflict, capital and culture / | 306.09416 WAL A troubled sleep : risk and resilience in contemporary Northern Ireland / | 306.0947 POM Nothing is true and everything is possible : | 306.2 CHU Political tribes : | 306.2 COR Corrupt histories / |
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 after 110 hours of face-to-face interviews with a diverse range of political, acadademic, 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 vulnerabilites, and points of resilience, as an allegedly "post-conflict" society. By examining Northern Ireland as an example, Waller presents deep insights into what happens when identity politics prevail over democracy, when a paralysis in governance leads to a political vacuum that leaves spaces open for extremist voices to dominate, 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."-- Taken from dust jacket.