Identity Change after Conflict - Ethnicity, Boundaries and Belonging in the Two Irelands

von: Jennifer Todd

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

ISBN: 9783319985039 , 291 Seiten

Format: PDF, Online Lesen

Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen

Mac OSX,Windows PC für alle DRM-fähigen eReader Apple iPad, Android Tablet PC's Online-Lesen für: Mac OSX,Linux,Windows PC

Preis: 64,19 EUR

eBook anfordern eBook anfordern

Mehr zum Inhalt

Identity Change after Conflict - Ethnicity, Boundaries and Belonging in the Two Irelands


 

Series Editor’s Preface

6

Preface and Acknowledgements

10

Contents

14

List of Figures

16

List of Tables

17

1: Reflexivity and Group Identity in Divided Societies

18

Introduction

18

Nations, Nationalism and Ethno-religious Division in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

21

Findings

24

Choices

26

Chapters

26

References

32

2: Understanding Identity Change: Conditions, Context, Concepts

34

Introduction

34

Identity Change, Group Conflict and Social Transformations: The Field of Debate

36

Situating the Argument Within Contemporary Scholarship

41

Beyond Ethnicity

43

Contradictory Experiences, Intersectional Positions, Composite Divisions

43

Logics of Appropriateness and Grammars of Nationality

45

Researching Identity Change

48

Individual Identity Innovation

49

Types of Identity Change

51

Bringing Together the Aspects of Identity Change

51

Conclusion

52

References

54

3: Ethnic Divisions? Types of Boundaries and the Temporality of Change in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

60

Introduction

60

What Divisions?

62

Global Processes, State Forms and Group Division

62

The Institutionalization of Division, 1920s–1960s

64

Comparative Structures of Division

67

Changing Social Practices and Attitudes to Division: 1960s–2010s

69

The Republic of Ireland: Permeability, Salience, Totalization

70

Northern Ireland: Permeability, Salience, Totalization

71

Changing Forms of Groupness

74

Conclusion

77

References

82

4: The Grammar of Nationality, the Limits of Variation and the Practice of Exclusion in the Two Irelands

87

Introduction

87

Nationalism, Nationality and the Presentation of Self

90

Grammars of Nationality

92

Rules of Syntax and Reference

93

The Dimensions of the Nation

95

Interrelations

98

Nationality as Belonging?

99

Modes of National Exclusion

101

Conclusion

106

References

109

5: Distancing from Division: The Frequency and Framing of Individual Identity Innovation

112

Introduction

112

Concepts and Method

115

Individual Identity Innovation

115

Indicators

117

Extent of Innovation: Minor, Significant or Major

117

Framing Innovation

118

Results: Who Innovates and by How Much?

119

Who Innovates?

119

Who Does Not Innovate?

119

How Radical Is the Change?

120

Why Innovate?

124

The Conditions of Identity Innovation

127

Contact

128

Compromise

128

Exclusion

129

Phasing of Change

131

Conclusion

131

References

134

6: How People Change: Cultural Logics and Social Patterns of Identity Change

138

Introduction

138

Types of Identity Change

140

Privatization

140

Pluralization

144

Transformation

148

Patterns

151

Minor-Significant Innovation

152

Northern Ireland: Unhappy Consciousness

153

The Irish State: Cumulative, Generational Change

155

Conclusion

157

References

159

7: Situated Cosmopolitans: Mixed Marriage Individuals and the Obstacles to Identity Change

161

Introduction

161

Contextualizing Mixed Marriage in Northern Ireland, the Irish State and in the Gard in France

164

The Cases

164

Mixed Marriage

166

Respondents and Interviews

167

Findings

168

Frequency of Individual Identity Innovation

168

Narrating Identity Change

170

Privatization

170

Pluralization

171

Transformation

173

Universalistic Reaffirmation

175

Transcending Division: Generational Change

176

Obstacles to Identity Change

177

Conclusion

181

References

185

8: Modes, Mechanisms, Types and Traps of Identity Change: Comparative and Explanatory Tools

189

Introduction

189

Typology of Identity Change

192

Changing Identity Categories: Repositioning Within Given Classificatory Schemas

194

Switching Between Alternative Classificatory Schemas

197

Reinterpretation of the Rules, Meanings and Values Associated with Given Categories and Schemas

199

Traps of Identity Change

205

Traps of Change

205

Explaining Outcomes

207

Conclusion

209

Reference

211

9: Identity Politics and Social Movements: Flags, Same-Sex Marriage and Brexit

214

Introduction

214

Identity Politics in the 2010s

218

The Flags Protest, 2012–201314

219

The Context

219

Social Structure and Identity Change

220

Who Were the Protestors?

221

Networks, Institutions and Incentives

222

Uneven Change

224

The Marriage Equality Referendum19

224

The Context

224

Social Structure and Identity Change

225

Who Were the Agents

226

Networks, Institutions and Incentives

226

Uneven Change

228

Explaining the Contrasting Outcomes

228

Signposting Change

232

Conclusion

233

References

236

10: Conclusion

240

Identity Change: The Findings and Their Significance

240

Scope, Method and Concepts

241

Patterns and Traps of Change

242

Testing the Claims: Experiments and Explanations

243

Policy, Norms and Aims

245

References

246

Methodological Appendix

247

Project Aims and Design

247

Sites and Sampling

249

Interviews

254

Interviewers

256

Interview Schedule

257

Taping, Transcribing, Editing and Anonymizing

261

Reporting and Replication

262

Analysis

264

Indicators of Individual Identity Innovation

267

Quantitative Data

271

References

273

Index

277