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A troubled sleep : risk and resilience in contemporary Northern Ireland / James Waller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waller, James, 1961- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group identity--Northern Ireland.
- Group identity.
- Nationalism--Northern Ireland.
- Nationalism.
- Social conflict--Northern Ireland.
- Social conflict.
- Northern Ireland--Social conditions--21st century.
- Northern Ireland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 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 progressively accumulating in a rising tide and resilience is rapidly receding. From Northern Ireland we can learn what happens when identity politics prevail over democracy, when a paralysis in governance leads to a political vacuum that leaves spaces open for extremist voices to dominate, 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.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 17, 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-755875-5
- 0-19-009558-X
- 0-19-009559-8
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