The geography of loyalist paramilitary feuding in Belfast

Gallaher, Carol; Shirlow, Peter

doi:10.1080/13562570600921600

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“…However, Gallaher and Shirlow (2006) challenge such analyses, presenting a more complex picture of the meaning of Loyalist paramilitary activity since the ceasefires. This ambiguity was not generally shared among the women interviewed: regardless of rationale, the community experiences the effects of criminality and feuding.…”

Section: Loyalism Women and Standpoint Theory 267mentioning

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Loyalism, Women and Standpoint Theory

Potter

2012

Irish Political Studies

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Most recent studies of Loyalism in Northern Ireland have focused on the nature and development of Loyalist paramilitaries and their methods, ideology and attitudes to the peace process. This article argues that the nature of Loyalist paramilitarism is primarily masculinist and that there is a perspective that has gone generally unheard from women in Loyalist communities. Using standpoint theory, evidence from interviews with women in Loyalist communities associated with Belfast is analysed and a picture is formed that suggests that there are gendered attitudes towards women who become involved in the conflict through paramilitary organisations and that paramilitaries are not representative of their communities. It is concluded that researchers need to bear in mind the gender dimensions of their work and be aware of who is present and who is absent when research is being carried out.

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Loyalism, Women and Standpoint Theory

Potter

2012

Irish Political Studies

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“…Moreover, those with a political inclination within loyalism have worked to instigate a process of conflict transformation on the one hand and curtail the activities of those within loyalism still intent on stirring up sectarian trouble (McAuley et al, 2009). These progressive elements have not shied away from tackling regressive elements that attempt to hold back loyalist conflict transformation through manufacturing armed confrontation within postconflict loyalism for their own ends (Gallaher & Shirlow, 2006). Engaging with Sinn Féin on a formal political level would then be an extension of this process of conflict transformation and one that provides tangible benefits to PUL communities that revanchist rhetoric simply cannot compete with.…”

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The Great Awakening? The Belfast Flag Protests and Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist Counter-memory in Northern Ireland

Hearty

2014

Irish Political Studies

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This article examines the protest movement that surfaced as a result of the decision taken by Belfast City Council to remove the Union flag from Belfast City Hall in December 2012. This article examines why the issue conflagrated as it did and led to a mobilisation within working-class Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist (PUL) communities on the issue. Examining the flag protests within the context of more general PUL disaffection with the Good Friday Agreement and its associated peace process, this article looks at the flag protests as an avenue for disaffected PUL communities to assert a new counter-memory that challenges not only the 'other' but also those within the leadership of political Unionism who are said to have used PUL communities during the conflict only to abandon them in the post-conflict transition. This article concludes by examining the future potential of the new political movement born out of the flag protests and the avenues open to it to challenge the hegemonic position of traditional Unionism that has left PUL communities behind as Northern Ireland progresses in transition out of political conflict.

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“…For instance, the vigilante-style, Republican Action Against Drugs has instigated displacement from Londonderry and surrounding towns (McCann 2012). Internal disputes between two loyalist groups, the UVF and the UDA, over the direction of peace processes, 'personal vendettas' and territorial disputes, led to intra-community displacement during 2000 (Brown and Mac Ginty 2003, 98;Gallaher and Shirlow 2006;Gallaher 2007). The Northern Ireland Housing Executive explains the increased number of applications for re -accommodation, in 2002-2003, as the result of intra-community feuds.…”

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Visual and textual narratives of conflict-related displacement in Northern Ireland

Side

2014

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Combined textual and visual narratives and counternarratives illustrate a range of experiences in Northern Ireland's conflictual, spatial landscape. In this article, I argue that combined textual and visual narratives about conflictinstigated displacement create and articulate community-specific experiences of disadvantage, with the intention of gaining political recognition and/or advantage over other communities in ongoing processes of conflict transformation. I expose the multiple, contextualised meanings of selective narratives that are accessible in language and image but, that are rarely questioned because of the political influence of their tellers or, because of their scale. Their meanings and intentions exist alongside counternarratives about intracommunity displacement and displacement against other groups and are concurrent with public apathy, which serve to minimise their effectiveness as political tools to gain community-specific, social and political advantage. These narratives and counternarratives persist as key spatial markers and as sites on which conflict, and its effective transformation, are played out.

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The geography of loyalist paramilitary feuding in Belfast

Cited by 21 publications

References 19 publications

Loyalism, Women and Standpoint Theory

Loyalism, Women and Standpoint Theory

The Great Awakening? The Belfast Flag Protests and Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist Counter-memory in Northern Ireland

Visual and textual narratives of conflict-related displacement in Northern Ireland

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