A Troubled Sleep

Risk and Resilience in Contemporary Northern Ireland
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-19-009557-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

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 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 "post-conflict" 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waller, James

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- TABLE OF CONTENTS

- Introduction: A Brutal Duality

- Part I - Wounded Identities

- Chapter 1: "You're One or the Other:" Social Identities in Deeply Divided Societies

- Chapter 2: "Two Eyes on the Past:" Northern Ireland's Wounded History

- Part II - Risk and Resilience in Contemporary Northern Ireland

- Understanding Risk and Resilience

- Chapter 3: "Was There Ever A Before?" The Tyranny of Memory

- Chapter 4: "With Deep Regret and Reluctance:" Governance in a Deeply Divided Society

- Chapter 5: "The Walls Entered Into Our Souls:" Social Fragmentation in Everyday Life

- Part III - A Troubled Sleep

- Chapter 6: "A Farewell to Peace?:" Escalating Risk and Fading Resilience

- Conclusion: "I Hope It Wasn't All a Waste:" Northern Ireland At Its Centenary

- Endmatter

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

James Waller is Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and chair of that same department, at Keene State College (NH-US). He is the author of five books, most notably Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing and Confronting Evil: Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide. Waller has held numerous visiting professorships, most recently as an honorary visiting research professor in the George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Justice and Security at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland (2017), as well as participating in policymaking and diplomatic efforts to prevent and respond to genocide and violent conflict. In 2017, he was the inaugural recipient of the Engaged Scholarship Prize from the International Association of Genocide Scholars in recognition of his exemplary engagement in advancing genocide awareness and prevention.