Afterlives of the Troubles : Life stories, culture and conflict transformation in Northern Ireland / Graham Dawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dawson, Graham, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political violence--Northern Ireland--History--20th century.

Political violence.

Northern Ireland.

Ireland--Ulster.

Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--Civilization.

Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland).

Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--Politics and government--20th century.

Northern Ireland--History--1968-1998.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2026.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Graham Dawson is Visiting Professor in INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute) at Ulster University.

Summary:

Focusing on experiential life stories across a range of forms and practices in the lengthening 'afterlife' of the Troubles, this book explores the complex temporal dynamics of 'post-conflict' subjectivities and the cultural politics of their representation, seen as a neglected dimension of conflict transformation in the Northern Irish peace process.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright information

Dedication

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Note on research ethics

Note on conventions used fortranscribed interviews

Introduction - Afterlives of the Troubles: life stories, 'post-conflict' culture and conflict transformation in Northern Ireland

Notes

Chapter 1: Where am I? Unsettling encounters in researching memory, subjectivity and conflict transformation after the Northern Irish Troubles

'British' Cultural Studies, subjectivity and memory

The Northern Irish conflict and I: a cultural biography

Positionality and relational dynamics in researching the Troubles

Positionality in my conflict research: enablements and contradictions

Unsettling encounters in conflict research

Conclusion

Chapter 2: The meaning of 'moving on': from trauma to the history and culture of feelings and emotions

The trouble with trauma

From trauma to feeling and emotion in historical cultures: shifting the frame

Chapter 3: Masculinities and the affective afterlife of 'the terrorist' in conflict transformation: representation, identity and intersubjectivity

Chapter 4: The desire for justice: discourses of victimhood, psychic reparation and the politics of memory

The desire for justice in the Irish peace process

West Tyrone Voice and the desire for justice

Personal memory and the desire for justice

West Tyrone Voice public discourse on the desire for justice

The desire for justice in object-relations psychoanalytic theory

The desire for justice: psychoanalytic insight and the writing of history

Notes.

Chapter 5: Memory scapes, spatial legacies of conflict and the culture of historical reconciliation in 'post-conflict' Belfast

Belfast: city of conflict and the 'post-conflict' city

'New Belfast': heritage, development and the erasure of the conflicted past

Interface memoryscapes, spaces of fear and 'post-conflict' subjectivities

Chapter 6: Memory, the after life of emotion and the temporal politics of 'post-conflict' transition

Regimes of temporality and the politics of time in 'post-conflict' Northern Ireland

'Post-conflict' temporalities and the afterlife of emotion in the Troubles

Chapter 7: Storytelling in 'post-conflict' times: experiential narrative, subjectivity and the temporal practice of community based conflict transformation

Storytelling for conflict transformation in theory and practice

Critique and evolving perspectives

Chapter 8: Memories of conflict and redevelopment at West Belfast interfaces: complex temporalities and place-based structures of feeling inoral histories from the Dúchas Archive

Sectarianised geographies, place-based structures of feeling and the 'temporal diffraction' of interface memory

Place-based structures of feeling and discordant memories of a common landscape

'Afterwardsness' and 'temporal diffraction' in memories of intercommunal conflict

Rhythms, ruptures and the reordering of quotidian time and space in the Army occupation of West Belfast

Militarising the interface: place-based structures of feeling and the transformation of timespace

Redevelopment, deindustrialisation and the Troubles: intersecting temporalities in life stories of the Shankill.

Lost places and 'the knife in everyone's heart': navigating memories of pride, pain and belonging in a Shankill life story

Chapter 9: Oral history and the legacy of conflict: policy, history-making and the afterlife of feeling in archived interviews of the Troubles

Oral history in the legacy policyscape

Life stories and conflict legacy: Critical perspectives from oral history theory and method

'Oral history' and 'storytelling'

Subjectivity, representation and creative agency

Existing oral history archives

Complex temporalities and dynamics of feeling in archived oral histories of the Troubles

Temporal flow and states of feeling in Olive Maguire's interview

Associative diffraction and the afterlife of feeling in Jo-Ann Harrison's interview

Index.

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ISBN:

1-5261-4648-7

1-5261-4650-9

9781526146489

OCLC:

1569674036