Dealing with the Legacy of Ethnic Conflict: Confronting ‘Othering’ through Transformative Adult Education—A Northern Ireland Case Study

McManus, Cathal

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“…As a concept, however, social bulimia has a broader pertinence and utility beyond the specific contexts in which Young himself used it. It is relevant, for example, to conflict situations where ‘us’/‘them’ distinctions (Gomez-Suarez, 2017: 463), ‘in-group’/‘out-group’ binaries (Levy et al, 2017) and ‘othering’ processes (McManus, 2017) reflect broader inclusion/exclusion dynamics that often precede—and are an integral part of—mass human rights abuses and war crimes (Hudson, 2014: 103). Jamieson (1999), for example, touches on the significance of social bulimia in her work on the genocides committed in Rwanda and BiH in 1994 and 1995 respectively.…”

Section: The Dialectics Dynamics and Cross-contextual Uses Of Social ...mentioning

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Storytelling, resilience and transitional justice: Reversing narrative social bulimia

Clark

2020

Theoretical Criminology

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This article is about storytelling and transitional justice. Utilizing the late Jock Young’s concept of social bulimia, it uses the author’s fieldwork with victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina to demonstrate that storytelling can become a social bulimic process of absorption and expulsion. The article’s key aim is to explore ways of addressing this. In so doing, it draws on the neurological concept of plasticity. Emphasizing the importance of ‘narrative plasticity’ in the sense of giving victims-/survivors more control over their stories, and linking the concept to resilience, it argues that narrative plasticity can help to address the absorption and exclusion dynamics of social bulimia—and thereby contribute to moving transitional justice in a new ecological direction.

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Section: The Dialectics Dynamics and Cross-contextual Uses Of Social ...mentioning

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Storytelling, resilience and transitional justice: Reversing narrative social bulimia

Clark

2020

Theoretical Criminology

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“…(p. 422) This leads therefore to the final consideration which centers on the above idea that while Sinn Féin were promoting Irish as part of an "equality" and "rights-based" agenda, they were also seemingly attacking Unionist culture and rights. This perception stemmed from various disputes that emerged during the 1980s and 1990s over the right of the Orange Order, a Unionist and Protestant organization, to parade through predominantly Catholic/Nationalist neighborhoods (McManus 2017;Bryan 2000).…”

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“…Indeed, at the time of writing, Northern Ireland has been without a government for 19 months following the collapse of the assembly in January 2017 in part because of issues related to the introduction of an Irish Language Act (Acht na Gaeilge). This dispute is merely the latest in a long line of disagreements that have had cultural issues at their heart, leading some to argue that we are now witnessing the old military conflict being fought out over matters of identity (McManus 2017).…”

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Identity and Conflict in Northern Ireland

McManus¹

2019

The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity

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For almost 30 years, Northern Ireland society was torn apart by a conflict based along competing ethno-religious lines. The signing of the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement in 1998, however, promised a peace process that would bring an end to the militancy of previous decades and the establishment of new political arrangements that would see the competing groupings of Irish Nationalism and Ulster Unionism share power in a devolved Northern Ireland assembly. Despite much progress in the 20 years since the Agreement, many problems remain, and often bitter sectarian tensions continue to blight Northern Irish society and block progress toward full implementation of both the Good Friday Agreement and the subsequent St Andrews Agreement of 2007. This chapter will examine the nature of these ongoing divisions and highlight the role that competing identities have come to play in maintaining a sectarian divide since 1998. Arguing that Northern Ireland has yet to confront a legacy of "Othering" between the two conflicting communities, it will be stressed that much work remains to be done to fulfil the

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“…The resulting sense of superiority, coupled with the perception of a security threat, often yields policies aimed to undermine or suppress the Other (McManus, 2017). Even if a group constructs its superior in-group identity around a strong sense of liberal and democratic values, these values can be compromised in the name of security (Brewer & Higgins, 1998).…”

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Securitization Revisited

Butler

2019

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 selection and editorial matter, Michael J. Butler; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Michael J. Butler to be identified as the author of the editorial matter, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.With the exception of Chapter 6, no part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.Chapter 6 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Dealing with the Legacy of Ethnic Conflict: Confronting ‘Othering’ through Transformative Adult Education—A Northern Ireland Case Study

Cited by 13 publications

References 27 publications

Storytelling, resilience and transitional justice: Reversing narrative social bulimia

Storytelling, resilience and transitional justice: Reversing narrative social bulimia

Identity and Conflict in Northern Ireland

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