7. Social Movements and Social Movement Organizations:Recruitment, Ideology, and Splits

White, Robert W.; Demirel-Pegg, Tijen

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“…Writing in 2017, Robert White and Tijen Demirel-Pegg posited that kinship ties were a crucial factor shaping republicans' allegiance within heterogeneous organisations. 8 Family histories of republican activism featured frequently in White's longitudinal oral history interviews between the 1980s and 2000s. Among White's mid-1980s interview cohort, all but one who reported a republican family background remained politically active when a third set of interviews were recorded in 2005.…”

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Beyond the “republican family”: intergenerational memory, biography, and politics in Ireland since 1969

Hepworth

2021

Irish Studies Review

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Signalling the longevity of their struggle, Irish republicans active since 1969 frequently highlight family connections among previous generations of militant activists. First, this article interrogates how activists without republican lineage narrate their mobilisation and position themselves within the movement. Republicans without familial access to the movement, it is argued, frame their own commitment as uniquely independent, intense, and reflective. The article's second section examines the contentious, metaphorical formulation of "family" within Irish republicanism since the peace process of the 1990s. To maintain internal unity amid strategic reorientation, the Provisional movement leadership invoked a "republican family" within which misgivings and dissent could be contained and overcome. Conversely, Sinn Féin's republican critics rejected the Provisionals' attempts to delimit the "family." Simultaneously, senior Sinn Féin representatives strategically warned the London and Dublin governments of the volatility of the "family": sustaining the peace process, they claimed, required state actors to accommodate an enduringly truculent republican rank-and-file. Drawing upon republican oral histories and written autobiography, this article elucidates how republican familiesboth literal and metaphorical -have alternately cohered and stabilised the movement. It illuminates a continual contest for intergenerational political legitimacy, and for the right to determine the principles and programme of the republican "family."

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Beyond the “republican family”: intergenerational memory, biography, and politics in Ireland since 1969

Hepworth

2021

Irish Studies Review

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Women’s agency and political violence: Irish Republican women and the formation of the Provisional IRA, 1967–70

Reinisch

2018

Irish Political Studies

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“Troubled” Meanings: An Affect Control Theory Exploration of the Conflict in Northern Ireland

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Huft

2024

Social Currents

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The Troubles in Northern Ireland ranks among the most violent periods in recent history. While social movements scholars have long sought to understand the conflict, often they do not include micro-level approaches. We use affect control theory and cultural meanings among Catholics gathered at the height of The Troubles to create prototypical group members and then simulate interactions across and between groups. Using cultural meanings gathered at a Catholic high school in Belfast in 1977, we find that Catholic (in-group) identities hold more positive meanings than Protestant identities. This remains true for identities within the paramilitary organizations and non-combatant identities. However, we find that the meanings of combatant identities are much lower in evaluation—a measure of goodness—than non-combatant identities. Our simulations suggest that interactions between groups are expected to be relatively innocuous. However, we do find that, in simulations, combatants—on both sides of the conflict—are expected to interact negatively with others. These findings and the methods we use suggest future avenues for both researchers and policymakers to better understand conflict and peacemaking.

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7. Social Movements and Social Movement Organizations:Recruitment, Ideology, and Splits

Cited by 3 publications

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Beyond the “republican family”: intergenerational memory, biography, and politics in Ireland since 1969

Beyond the “republican family”: intergenerational memory, biography, and politics in Ireland since 1969

Women’s agency and political violence: Irish Republican women and the formation of the Provisional IRA, 1967–70

“Troubled” Meanings: An Affect Control Theory Exploration of the Conflict in Northern Ireland

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