The Berlin walls of Belfast

Gormley‐Heenan, Cathy; Byrne, Jonny; Robinson, Gillian

doi:10.1057/bp.2013.11

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“…For flertallet af Belfasts indbyggere giver barriererne en illusion af sikkerhed (Gormley-Heenan, Byrne og Robinson, 2013). Fra deres perspektiv kan barriererne ses som en beskyttelse mod demografisk og politisk forandring: "En barriere tilbyder komforten af et fristed, af at vaere i blandt ens egne i et beskyttet og forsvaret miljø" (Donnan og Jarman, 2017: 254).…”

Section: Katarzyna Stokłosaunclassified

Belfast – fanget mellem det sekteriske og det kosmopolitiske

Stoklosa¹

2020

politica

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Delte byer er efterhånden et særsyn i europæisk sammenhæng. Fænomenet er hovedsageligt resultat af geopolitiske forandringer, der har præget Europa de seneste to århundreder og udspringer af krige. Ikke mange har rod i en imperial fortid og de økonomiske skel mellem sociale grupper, som man ser det i Belfast. De mest dramatiske konsekvenser af delte byer er fysiske, dvs. voldelige konflikter og tab af liv. Manglende interaktion gør det vanskeligt at skabe fælles forudsætninger, selv mange år efter de voldelige konflikter er overstået. Artiklen undersøger de sociale barrierer, der opstod som følge af ”the troubles” – dvs. fra 1969 og fremefter – sammen med de fysiske barrierer og delinger, der præger byrummet i Belfast i dag. Det centrale spørgsmål er, om byens indbyggere taler eller er parate til at tale på basis af fælles forudsætninger og fortælle de samme historier og diskurser om delingerne, der har præget byen igennem næsten 50 år. Eller er kløften stadig en del af det sociale setup i dagens Belfast?

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Belfast – fanget mellem det sekteriske og det kosmopolitiske

Stoklosa¹

2020

politica

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“…There are also a small number of segregating security barriers in other towns such as Derry and Portadown. When surveyed the overwhelming majority (69 Per cent) of those living near security walls favoured their retention due to fear of potential sectarian violence (Gormley-Heenan et al, 2013). Peace brought an increase in "chill factors", including new security barriers, and a fortifying of the sectarian boundaries with graffiti, flags, kerb painting and other manifestations of religious and cultural political identity and paramilitary association (Harbison, 2002;Hughes, 2014).…”

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Agency versus structure in reconciliation

Hughes

2017

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Reconciliation theories, discourses and practices prioritize agency over structure. They suggest that inter-group conflicts involving deep cleavages such as ethnicity, race and religion can be resolved by processes involving inter-personal contacts, and achieving a desired endstate of shared values, narratives and identity. Contact between group members under optimal conditions of parity and trust is viewed as the critical tool for change. By problematizing conflictual identities and social relations as agential and inter-personal, conflicts are decontextualized from their structural environment. Structural segregation provides us with a bridging concept between the agency factors, structural dynamics of conflict, and the obstacles to post-conflict reconciliation. The case of Northern Ireland, often elevated to the status of a model for conflict resolution, is analysed to show how structural segregation is the critical barrier to the optimal group interactions envisaged by agential reconciliation, as it sustains low inter-group trust and political polarization.

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“…As will be seen, this element of disappointment is one that creates new fears and continuing aversion between different sectors of society regardless of reconciliation processes. There is plentiful evidence that fear will continue to contribute to physical divisions that might inhibit reconciliation as can be seen in the expansion of peacelines since 1998 in Northern Ireland (Gormley-Heenan et al, 2013) and the private security infrastructure that pervades in South Africa. Thus, the generalized fear of contemporary life is replaced by a much more specific fear in divided societies.…”

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Fear, hope and disappointment

Little

2017

International Political Science Review

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The place of reconciliation in processes of conflict transformation is a deeply contested political issue. Reconciliation has played differing strategic roles in a variety of conflictual contexts. In some instances, such as Northern Ireland in the 1990s, the demands of reconciliation and the pursuit of truth seemed a step too far in the process of reducing political violence. In others, such as South Africa, it was a pivotal part of the transformative dynamic offering hope for a more unified post-apartheid settlement. Meanwhile in contemporary Australia, the idea of reconciliation continues to provide a rhetorical framing for the renegotiation of indigenous politics. This paper analyses these differing approaches to and uses of reconciliation and contends that they are underpinned by political narratives which invoke emotions of fear, hope and disappointment. This suggests that understanding these sentiments is fundamental to addressing the temporal challenges of the politics of reconciliation and the structural–agential dynamics of conflict transformation.

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The Berlin walls of Belfast

Cited by 17 publications

References 6 publications

Belfast – fanget mellem det sekteriske og det kosmopolitiske

Belfast – fanget mellem det sekteriske og det kosmopolitiske

Agency versus structure in reconciliation

Fear, hope and disappointment

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