Troubled Sleep (eBook)

Risk and Resilience in Contemporary Northern Ireland

James Waller (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
304 Seiten
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-009559-8 (ISBN)

Infos

In contemporary Northern Ireland, more than two decades after the peace agreement that ended the thirty-year sectarian violence known as "e;the Troubles"e; 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 "e;post-conflict"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-19-009559-8 / 0190095598
• ISBN-13: 978-0-19-009559-8 / 9780190095598