A Troubled Sleep: Risk and Resilience in Contemporary Northern Ireland
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2021
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780190095581
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780190095598, 9780190095574
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 12/19/22
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- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Psychology, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government, Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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