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Borders, states and nations. Contested boundaries and national identities in the Irish border area
Date Issued
2005
Date Available
2010-02-10T16:17:09Z
Abstract
Much scholarly writing on states and state boundaries assumes that these form or at least condition the bounds of identity. The 'institutionalisation' process is said to be one where the boundaries of the state become the boundaries of everyday life and imagined community. In an interdisciplinary, multi-stranded qualitative research on the Irish border, no such process of institutionalization was found. Rather the state border was perceived as a fluctuating area of danger and economic opportunity. To the extent that it
was perceived to impact at all on identity, it was on the moral and cultural content of identity rather than its national form, on the mode in which national and ethno-religious categories were lived rather than on those categories themselves.
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. Geary Institute
Series
UCD Geary Institute Discussion Paper Series
WP 2005/03
Subject – LCSH
Borderlands--Ireland
Ireland--Boundaries
Nationalism--Ireland
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
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