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A Troubled Sleep: Risk and Resilience in Contemporary Northern Ireland

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Availability:In StockContributor:James WallerTheme:Cultural Region/IrelandPublish date:4/9/2021Pages:376
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190095574ISBN-10:0190095571UPC:9780190095574Book Category:Social Science, Psychology, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Social Psychology, Genocide & War CrimesBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.30 x 6.10 x 1.50 inchesWeight:0.658Product ID:SC3Q4S8P5Y
In contemporary Northern Ireland, more than two decades after the peace agreement that ended the thirty-year sectarian violence known as "the Troubles" the risk of a return to violent conflict is not only present but growing.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, comparative research, and over 110 hours of face-to-face interviews with a diverse range of political, academic, civil society, and community actors across Northern Ireland, A Troubled Sleep revisits one of the world's most deeply divided societies to analyze Northern Ireland's current vulnerabilities, and points of resilience, as an allegedly "post-conflict" society. By examining the Northern Ireland example, Waller presents deep insight into what happens when identity politics prevail over democracy, when a paralysis in governance leads to a political vacuum for extremist voices to exploit, when de facto social segregation becomes normalized, when acclimatization to violence becomes a generational legacy, and when questions of who we are become secondary to who we are not.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190095574ISBN-10:0190095571UPC:9780190095574Book Category:Social Science, Psychology, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Social Psychology, Genocide & War CrimesBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.30 x 6.10 x 1.50 inchesWeight:0.658Product ID:SC3Q4S8P5Y
James Waller is Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and chair of that same department, at Keene State College (NH-US). He is the author of five books, most notably Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing and Confronting Evil: Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide. Waller has held numerous visiting professorships, most recently as an honorary visiting research professor in the George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Justice and Security at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland (2017), as well as participating in policymaking and diplomatic efforts to prevent and respond to genocide and violent conflict. In 2017, he was the inaugural recipient of the Engaged Scholarship Prize from the International Association of Genocide Scholars in recognition of his exemplary engagement in advancing genocide awareness and prevention.
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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James Waller

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