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Abandoning historical conflict?

Former political prisoners and reconciliation in Northern Ireland

By: Peter Shirlow,Jon Tonge,James W. McAuley,Catherine McGlynn

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Abandoning historical conflict?

Former political prisoners and reconciliation in Northern Ireland

By: Peter Shirlow,Jon Tonge,James W. McAuley,Catherine McGlynn

Drawing on over 150 interviews with former IRA, INLA, UVF and UFF prisoners, this is a major analysis of why Northern Ireland has seen a transition from war to peace. Most accounts of the peace process are ‘top-down’, relying upon the views of political elites. This book is ‘bottom-up’, analysing the voices of those who actually ‘fought the war’. What made them fight, why did they stop and what are the lessons for other conflict zones? Using unrivalled access to members of the armed groups, the book, available for the first time in paperback, offers a critical appraisal of one-dimensional accounts of the onset of peace, grounded in ‘mutually hurting stalemate’ and ‘ripeness’, which downgrade the political and economic aspects of conflict. Military stalemate had been evident since the early 1970s and offers little in explaining the timing of the peace process. Moreover, republicans and loyalists based their ceasefires upon very different perceptions of transformation or victory. Based on a Leverhulme Trust project and written by an expert team, Abandoning Conflict offers a new analysis, based on subtle interplays of military, political, economic and personal changes and experiences.

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1847797539

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Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday

Lost futures and new horizons in the ‘long peace’

By: Colin Coulter,Niall Gilmartin,Katy Hayward,Peter Shirlow

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Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday

Lost futures and new horizons in the ‘long peace’

By: Colin Coulter,Niall Gilmartin,Katy Hayward,Peter Shirlow

The Good Friday Agreement is widely celebrated as a political success story, one that has brought peace to a region that was once synonymous around the globe with political violence. The truth, as ever, is rather more complicated than that. In many respects, the era of the peace process has seen Northern Irish society change almost beyond recognition. Those incidents of politically motivated violence that were once commonplace have become thankfully rare and a new generation has emerged whose identities and interests are rather more fluid and cosmopolitan than those of their predecessors. However, Northern Ireland continues to operate in the long shadow of its own turbulent past. Those who were victims of violence, as well as those who were its agents, have often been consigned to the margins of a society still struggling to cope with the traumas of the Troubles. Furthermore, the transition to ‘peace’ has revealed the existence of new, and not so new, forms of violence in Northern Irish society, directed towards women, ethnic minorities and the poor. Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday sets out to capture the complex, and often contradictory, realities that have emerged more than two decades on from the region’s vaunted peace deal. Across nine original essays, the authors offer a critical and comprehensive reading of a society that often appears to have left its violent past behind but at the same time remains subject to its gravitational pull.

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Manchester University Press

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1526139294

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Key Concepts in Political Geography

By: Carolyn Gallaher,Carl T Dahlman,Mary Gilmartin,Alison Mountz,Peter Shirlow

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Key Concepts in Political Geography

By: Carolyn Gallaher,Carl T Dahlman,Mary Gilmartin,Alison Mountz,Peter Shirlow

A comprehensive reader for my political geography course. Good summaries at the end, and articles include effective case study examples." - Rachel Paul, Western Washington University "A very useful and comprehensive introduction to key concepts in political geography. This book provides useful context not just for ′traditional′ political geography modules, but also those examining broader issues of power, resistance and social movements." - Gavin Brown, University of Leicester "Vital for introducing basic concepts and terminology in a clear and concise fashion. The short chapters are accessible and well supplemented with pertinent examples." - Daniel Hammett, Sheffield University "I found the book to be very useful in a supplemental capacity, full of information that would be useful for an undergraduate or early graduate student." - Jason Dittmer, University College London This textbook forms part of an innovative set of companion texts for the human geography subdisciplines. Organized around 20 short essays, Key Concepts in Political Geography provides a cutting-edge introduction to the central concepts that define contemporary research in the field. Involving detailed yet expansive discussions, the book includes: An introductory chapter providing a succinct overview of the recent developments in the field Over 20 key concept entries covering the expected staples of the sub-discipline, such as nationalism, territoriality, scale and political-economy, as well as relatively new arrivals to the field including the other, anti-statism, gender, and post-conflict A glossary, figures, diagrams and further reading. It is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of political geography.

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SAGE

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1446243540

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Transnational Ties

Cities, Migrations, and Identities

By: Michael Peter Smith,John Eade

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Transnational Ties

Cities, Migrations, and Identities

By: Michael Peter Smith,John Eade

Cities are key sites of the transnational ties that increasingly connect people, places, and projects across the globe. They provide opportunities and constraints within which transnational actors and networks operate and nodes linking wider social formations traverse national borders. This book brings together a series of richly textured ethnographic studies that suggest new ways to situate and historicize transnationalism, identify new pathways to transnational urbanism, and map the contours of translocal, interregional, and diasporic connections not previously studied. The transnational ties treated in this book truly span the globe, giving concrete meaning to the phrase "globalization from below." How have the contributors to this book conceptualized the wider context informing the conduct of their ethnographically grounded, multi-sited research on the relationship between cities, migration, and transnationalism? Several interrelated contextual dimensions have been singled out as affecting the opportunities and constraints experienced by transnational migrant subjects. Socio-spatially, in several of these chapters, the political economic context now called neoliberal globalization is shown to be a key driving force creating conditions that necessitate, facilitate, or impede migration, foster trans-local economic ties, and create new inter-regional interdependencies--e.g., new South-South and East-East transnational ties. The changing historical context of both migrating groups and the cities and regions they move across are central to the study of the interplay of urban change and migrant transnationalism. The historical particularities of migrant recruitment, migration histories, migratory narratives, and changing gender and class relations all affect the character and geography of transnational migration with an impact on the social structures of community formation. This is a pioneering effort in the Comparative Urban and Community Research series.

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Routledge

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1351301268

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Ethnic Dignity and the Ulster-Scots Movement in Northern Ireland

Supremacy in Peril

By: Peter Gardner

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Ethnic Dignity and the Ulster-Scots Movement in Northern Ireland

Supremacy in Peril

By: Peter Gardner

In this book, Peter Gardner contends that the production of narratives of ethnic peoplehood is an attempt to regain a sense of collective dignity among the previously dominant. After introducing the concept of ethnic dignity and locating its place within postconflict identity politics, Gardner focuses his analysis on the Ulster- Scots story of peoplehood. Drawing on a wealth of primary data, the chapters explore a variety of core issues including ethnopolitics, social class, political-economic ideology, colonialism, and heteromasculinity. The book concludes by taking a global view of post-conflict ethnic dignity among the once dominant, analysing the New Afrikaans movement in South Africa, white pride and ethnic whiteness studies, and Maronite Phoenicianism in Lebanon. This will be an important contribution for students and scholars of ethnicity, divided societies and, more broadly, political sociology.

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Springer Nature

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3030348598

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Britain Since 1945

Aspects of Identity

By: Peter Leese

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Britain Since 1945

Aspects of Identity

By: Peter Leese

Britain since 1945 is an ideal introductory text for students of British Studies, cultural studies and modern British history. Assuming no prior knowledge, Leese offers students of all backgrounds both the essential chronological grounding and vital insight into the issues of identity necessary for a full understanding of contemporary Britain.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0230208363

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9780230208360

Urban Resilience

By: Jon Coaffee,Peter Lee

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Urban Resilience

By: Jon Coaffee,Peter Lee

As the cities of the world increasingly come under threat from crisis and disaster, planners are searching for ways to build resilience into the foundations of modern urban centres. This important book provides a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of urban resilience in response to a range of disruptions, including terrorism, climate change and economic crises. It examines how the concepts and principles of resilience exert increasing significant influence over the form and function of planning. Discussing a 'politics of resilience' in which fundamental questions of social and spatial justice are posed, this book examines how urban planners are increasingly tasked with the responsibility of safeguarding the future of urbanised centres and those that live in them. Drawing on international examples and detailed case-studies, this book provides a nuanced account of the uses, and misuses, of resilience and points a way forward for planning activity, from an approach that is too often narrowly technical in focus towards an integrated and adaptable model for coping with risk, crisis and uncertainty. It will make essential reading for students of urban planning and researchers alike.

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1137288841

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9781137288844

The End of Ulster Loyalism?

By: Peter Shirlow

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The End of Ulster Loyalism?

By: Peter Shirlow

The End of Ulster Loyalism? explores the dynamics and divisions within paramilitary groups since the mid-1970s. It, despite contrary public opinion, details and explains the nature of Loyalist conflict transformation. A key model of transition that is relevant to arenas beyond Northern Ireland. The book also discusses the nature and extent of loyalist violence and provides a rarely heard voice regarding State-led collusion. It locates Loyalist ideas and opinions that have been largely invisible and highlights how an extensive element of positive Loyalist renewal has been purposefully suppressed and unmentioned. It is a key text for any student of politics, criminology, human geography, and conflict and conflict transformation and is particularly relevant to the scholarship of pro-State groups who are infrequently considered in academic deliberations. A book of both hope and despair that emerges from a destabilizing past and a yet to be decided future.

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071908475X

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Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday

Lost futures and new horizons in the ‘long peace’

By: Colin Coulter,Niall Gilmartin,Katy Hayward,Peter Shirlow

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Lost futures and new horizons in the ‘long peace’

By: Colin Coulter,Niall Gilmartin,Katy Hayward,Peter Shirlow

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Abandoning historical conflict?

Former political prisoners and reconciliation in Northern Ireland

By: Peter Shirlow,Jon Tonge,James W. McAuley,Catherine McGlynn

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Former political prisoners and reconciliation in Northern Ireland

By: Peter Shirlow,Jon Tonge,James W. McAuley,Catherine McGlynn

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Key Concepts in Political Geography

By: Carolyn Gallaher,Carl T Dahlman,Mary Gilmartin,Alison Mountz,Peter Shirlow

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By: Carolyn Gallaher,Carl T Dahlman,Mary Gilmartin,Alison Mountz,Peter Shirlow

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Abandoning historical conflict?

Abandoning historical conflict?

Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday

Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday

Key Concepts in Political Geography

Key Concepts in Political Geography

Transnational Ties

Transnational Ties

Ethnic Dignity and the Ulster-Scots Movement in Northern Ireland

Ethnic Dignity and the Ulster-Scots Movement in Northern Ireland

Britain Since 1945

Britain Since 1945

Urban Resilience

Urban Resilience

The End of Ulster Loyalism?

The End of Ulster Loyalism?

Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday

Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday

Abandoning historical conflict?

Abandoning historical conflict?

Key Concepts in Political Geography

Key Concepts in Political Geography

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