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Identity Change after Conflict - Ethnicity, Boundaries and Belonging in the Two Irelands
von: Jennifer Todd
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
ISBN: 9783319985039 , 291 Seiten
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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