Through the looking glass: memory, myth and policing the past

Class, Identity, Integration, and the Two-Tiered Peace Process

“…Ethnographic work by Drissel (2007, 177) details how newly constructed public spaces in Belfast "have been utilized by youth to effectively blur schismatic distinctions and at least partially transform their collective identities. " Overall, when the Assembly functions, the Unionist and Nationalist parties struggle to cooperate on most meaningful legislation, and disputes over policing and the past have consistently divided government along ethnonational lines (Coulter et al 2021, 44-49, 70-103;Nolan 2014, 12-14;Lawther & Hearty 2021). Nonetheless, on a day-by-day basis, gradual shifts in civil society reveal a notable degree of flux in the identities and agencies of the NI citizenry.…”