This book provides a multidisciplinary collection of essays that seek to explore the deeply problematic legacy of post-Agreement Northern Ireland. Thus, the authors of this book look at a number of issues that continue to stymie the development of a robust and sustainable peacebuilding project, including segregation, contested parades and flags, ethnic party mobilization, and memorialization. Towards addressing these contemporary issues, authors are drawn from a range of disciplines, including politics, history, literature, drama, cultural studies, sociology, and social psychology.
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2 The Northern Irish Peace Process: Political Issues and Controversies |
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Part I The Will to Change: Key Players and Events |
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3 Tony Blair's Honourable Deception: In Defence of the `Dirty' Politics of the Northern Ireland Peace Process |
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4 `George Mitchell's Peace': The Good Friday Agreement in Colum McCann's Novel Trans Atlantic |
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5 From Protest to Power: The Rise of the DUP |
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Part II Winners, Losers and Beyond the Zero Sum Game? |
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6 Troubling Victims: Representing a New Politics of Victimhood in Northern Ireland on Stage and Screen |
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7 A Bitter Peace: Flag Protests, the Politics of No and Culture Wars |
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8 A Gender-Balanced Approach to Transforming Cultures of Militarism in Northern Ireland |
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9 Making Hope and History Rhyme? Dealing with Division and the Past in Northern Ireland After the Good Friday Agreement |
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Part III The Efficacy and Narratives of Culture |
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10 The Shore (2011): Examining the Reconciliation Narrative in Post-Troubles Cinema |
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11 Elementals in Language: Seamus Heaney After the Good Friday Agreement |
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12 Finished and Under Construction: Visual Representation and Spatial Relations in Post-Ceasefire Northern Irish Poetry |
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13 Post-Good Friday Positions and Parallaxes in Sinead Morrissey's Poetry |
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Part IV The Future of Peace |
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14 Legacies of 1998: What Kind of Social Peace Has Developed in Northern Ireland? Social Attitudes, Inequalities, and Territorialities |
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15 The Sociology of the Northern Irish Peace Process |
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Charles I. Armstrong is a Professor of British literature at the University of Agder, Norway. David Herbert is Professor of Sociology at Kingston University, UK, and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Agder, Norway. Jan Erik Mustad is Associate Professor in British Studies in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Agder, Norway.