Description: Further DetailsTitle: Ghosts of the SommeCondition: NewDescription: Once assumed to be a driver or even cause of conflict, commemoration during Ireland's Decade of Centenaries came to occupy a central place in peacebuilding efforts. The inclusive and cross-communal reorientation of commemoration, particularly of the First World War, has been widely heralded as signifying new forms of reconciliation and a greater "maturity" in relationships between Ireland and the UK and between Unionists and Nationalists in Northern Ireland. In this study, Jonathan Evershed interrogates the particular and implicitly political claims about the nature of history, memory, and commemoration that define and sustain these assertions, and explores some of the hidden and countervailing transcripts that underwrite and disrupt them. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Belfast, Evershed explores Ulster Loyalist commemoration of the Battle of the Somme, its conflicted politics, and its confrontation with official commemorative discourse and practice during the Decade of Centenaries. He investigates how and why the myriad social, political, cultural, and economic changes that have defined postconflict Northern Ireland have been experienced by Loyalists as a culture war, and how commemoration is the means by which they confront and challenge the perceived erosion of their identity. He reveals the ways in which this brings Loyalists into conflict not only with the politics of Irish Nationalism, but with the "peacebuilding" state and, crucially, with each other. He demonstrates how commemoration works to reproduce the intracommunal conflicts that it claims to have overcome and interrogates its nuanced (and perhaps counterintuitive) function in conflict transformation.Author: Jonathan EvershedCountry/Region of Manufacture: USEAN: 9780268103859Format: HardbackGenre: Law & PoliticsISBN: 9780268103859ISBN-10: 0268103852Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 592gItem Width: 19mmLanguage: EnglishPublisher: University of Notre Dame PressRelease Date: 05/30/2018Subtitle: Commemoration and Culture War in Northern IrelandTopic: History, Military HistoryRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Ghosts of the Somme
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
EAN: 9780268103859
Genre: Law & Politics
ISBN: 9780268103859
ISBN-10: 0268103852
Release Date: 05/30/2018
Release Year: 2018
Subtitle: Commemoration and Culture War in Northern Ireland
Title: Ghosts of the Somme
Topic: Military History
Number of Pages: 314 Pages
Publication Name: Ghosts of the Somme : Commemoration and Culture War in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Subject: Military / World War I, General, World / European, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / Ireland, Social Psychology, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 20.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Jonathan Evershed
Subject Area: Political Science, Psychology, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
