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Abstract
This is a critical overview of the various sources of social and political identity in Northern Ireland. The book examines the key variables of sociology - status, class and gender and, in this case, ethno-religion - and explains why ethno-religious sentiment has become the principle source of political identity.
A range of themes are covered: the role and status of women; the representations of the conflict and peace process in the media; sport; and the importance of popular music.
'A very substantial and scrupulous social overview and recounting of the different views, interpretations and solutions of the troubles'
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Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Contents | vii | ||
Acknowledgements | ix | ||
Introduction | 1 | ||
The formation of Northern Irish | 3 | ||
Some words about words | 8 | ||
1 The Nature of Division: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Sectarianism | 10 | ||
Some definitions | 10 | ||
The dimensions of ethnic division in Northern Ireland | 12 | ||
Ethnicity and nationalism | 43 | ||
A sectarian conflict? | 51 | ||
Conclusion | 59 | ||
2 The Significance of Social Class | 61 | ||
The distribution of life chances | 63 | ||
The other apartheid | 72 | ||
Class as a social identity | 76 | ||
Class as a political identity | 78 | ||
Why ethnonational rather than class politics? | 95 | ||
Conclusion | 99 | ||
3 The Status and Position of Women | 101 | ||
The domestic sphere of labour | 102 | ||
The regulation of fertility | 111 | ||
The public sphere: work | 113 | ||
The public sphere: education | 125 | ||
The public sphere: politics | 130 | ||
Conclusion | 148 | ||
4 Official Representations of the Conflict in Northern Ireland: The British State and the Media | 149 | ||
The media and the outbreak of the troubles | 150 | ||
Public relations and dirty tricks | 152 | ||
Advertising for peace | 157 | ||
Regulating the media | 182 | ||
Keeping their own house in order : self- censorship and the reference upwards system | 184 | ||
Media battles: Real Lives and Death on the Rock | 190 | ||
Explicit censorship: the 1988 broadcasting ban | 194 | ||
Conclusion | 198 | ||
5 Alternative Representations of the Conflict in Northern | 200 | ||
Ireland: Republican and Loyalist Murals The history of wall murals in Northern Ireland | 202 | ||
Irish republicanism | 206 | ||
Conclusion | 253 | ||
Good times for a change? | 253 | ||
References | 258 | ||
Index | 274 | ||
abortion 111 -13 | 111 | ||
academic performance | 125 | ||
125-8 | 125 |