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

• Main Author: Todd, Jennifer (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
• Subjects: Critical criminology.; Peace.; Culture.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; Ethnicity.; Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime.; Peace Studies.; Sociology of Culture.; Conflict Studies.; Crime and Society.; Ethnicity Studies.

This book explores everyday identity change and its role in transforming ethnic, national and religious divisions. It uses very extensive interviews in post-conflict Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the early 21st century to compare the extent and the micro-level cultural logics of id...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Reflexivity and group identity in divided societies
• 2. Understanding identity change: conditions, context, concepts
• 3. Ethnic divisions? Types of boundaries and the temporality of change in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
• 4. The grammar of nationality, the limits of variation and the practice of exclusion in the two Irelands
• 5. Distancing from division: The frequency and framing of individual identity innovation
• 6. How people change: cultural logics and social patterns of identity change
• 7. Situated cosmopolitans: mixed marriage individuals and the obstacles to identity change
• 8. Modes, mechanisms, types and traps of identity change: comparative and explanatory tools
• 9. Identity politics and social movements: flags, same sex marriage and Brexit
• 10: Conclusion
• Appendix: Methodological appendix.