Belfast: Segregation, Violence And the City - Rilegato

Shirlow, Peter; Murtagh, Brendan

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0745324819 ISBN 13: 9780745324814

Casa editrice: Pluto Pr, 2006

Riassunto

It is a commonly held view that the city of Belfast is emerging out of conflict and into a new era of tolerance and transformation. This book challenges this viewpoint. The authors pinpoint how international peace accords, such as the Belfast Agreement, are gradually eroded as conflict shifts into a stale and repetitive pattern of ethnically-divided competition over resources.

The book offers a vivid portrait of the human drama and brutality of the conflict in Belfast. The authors argue that the control of place remains the most important weapon in the politicization of communities and the reproduction of political violence. Segregation provides the laboratory within which sectarianism continues to grow. Examining the implications of these social divisions, the authors draw upon a wide international literature and provide insights that will be useful to students of geography, planning, politics, sociology and peace studies.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Peter Shirlow is a senior lecturer at the University of Ulster, Coleraine. He has edited the books Development Ireland andWho are the People?: Protestantism, Unionism and Loyalism in Northern Ireland (both published by Pluto Press) and is the editor of Pluto's Contemporary Irish Studies series.Brendan Murtagh is lecturer in Environmental Planning at Queens University, Belfast. His previous book,The Politics of Territory , was published in 2002 by Palgrave.

Contenuti:

Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 2 Even in Death Do us Stay Apart 3 The Belfast Disagreement 4 Interfacing, Violence and Wicked Problems 5 Between Segregated Communities 6 Coasting in the other city 7 Ethnic poker: policy and the divided city 8 Conclusion References Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pluto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0745324819
• ISBN 13: 9780745324814
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 202