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Trajectories of identity change : explaining the persistence of collective opposition
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Date Issued
2009-02-12
Date Available
2010-08-13T13:43:20Z
Abstract
This article explores the micro-level mechanisms that reproduce collective opposition. It uses a typology of identity change to compare individual narratives in two situations where there are strong incentives to change and different outcomes: religious distinction in post-conflict Northern Ireland where opposition continues and in contemporary Southern France where it is rapidly diminishing. The directions of identity change are parallel in each case, but in Northern Ireland change is experienced as crisis-ridden and prone to reversal. The mechanisms hindering change are not 'ethnic' but cultural-cognitive: the socio-symbolic context requires that change be radical if it is not to be reversible. `
Sponsorship
Higher Education Authority
Other Sponsorship
Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
EU programme for peace and reconcilliation
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies
Series
IBIS Discussion Papers : Politics and Identity Series
5
Subject – LCSH
Ethnicity--Northern Ireland
Group identity--Northern Ireland
Social conflict --Northern Ireland
Social conflict--France
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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