McLaughlin, Katrina

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    The nature of meaning of identity in Northern Ireland after the Belfast Good Friday Agreement
    (Wiley Blackwell, 2007-02)
    Muldoon, Orla 
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    Trew, Karen J. 
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    Todd, Jennifer 
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    Rougier, Nathalie 
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    McLaughlin, Katrina 
    Social identification processes can be seen as the basis of the conflict in Northern Ireland. During the conflict it can be argued that preferred social and political identities became increasingly oppositional and entrenched. This paper reviews this evidence using population level studies. It also explores trends in preferred identities since the 1998 Agreement as well as examining the patterns of preferred identity across generations with particular attention being paid to the responses of young people. In an attempt to elucidate the meaning of these identities, a series of inter-related qualitative studies that have examined constructions of national, political and religious identification are reported. These suggest a fluidity, rather than entrenchment, in post-Agreement respondents and point to the variability and complexity of identity phenomena in Northern Ireland.
      2670Scopus© Citations 84
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    The moral boundaries of the nation : nation, state and boundaries in the Southern Irish border counties
    (Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2006-12-19)
    Todd, Jennifer 
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    Muldoon, Orla 
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    Trew, Karen J. 
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    Cañás Bottos, Lorenzo 
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    Rougier, Nathalie 
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    McLaughlin, Katrina 
    This article argues that nationalism is more varied in the way that it constructs its boundaries than contemporary scholarship suggests. In an interdisciplinary, multistranded qualitative study of ethno-national identity on the Southern side of the Irish border, it shows the moral repertoires that qualify, conflict with, and on occasion replace, territorial-ethnic and state-centred aspects of national identity. It refocuses attention on the cultural and normative content of imagined national communities, and the different ways in which general norms function in particular communal contexts. It casts a new light on Southern attitudes to Irish unity. More generally, it suggests that a form of moral nationalism is possible, distinct from the forms more typically discussed in the literature: ethnic, civic, trans nationalism or even banal nationalism.
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