Inequality, identity, and the politics of Northern Ireland : challenges of peacebuilding and conflict transformation / Curtis C. Holland.

"Utilizing a critical sociological perspective, this book examines how overlapping class, gender, and spatial inequalities within and across Unionist and Nationalist communities shape processes of identity formation and party politics in Northern Ireland and implications of such processes on communi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Holland, Curtis C., 1983- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]
Subjects:	Peace-building > Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland > Social conditions > 1969- Northern Ireland > Politics and government > 1998- Peace-building. Politics and government. Social conditions. Northern Ireland. Since 1969
Physical Description:	x, 239 pages ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1: A tale of two Belfasts?: Inequality, segregation, and the politics of identity in a "post-conflict" city
Chapter 2: Social immobility, ethnopolitics, and the "culture wars": contextualizing violence and disorder in Belfast, 2008-2014
Chapter 3: Post-conflict masculinities, exclusion, and contradictions in ex-combatant community-based peacebuilding
Chapter 4: Identity, the politics of policing, and limits to legitimacy
Chapter 5: Brexit: a constitutional moment in unionism?
Chapter 6: "Peace fatigue," power sharing, and political impediments to community-based peacebuilding
Conclusion.