Narratives of Conflict, Belonging, and the State: Discourse and Social Life in Post-War Ireland

ISBN-13: 9781138744325 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 124 str.

Brigittine M. French

Opis

Using key perspectives from Linguistic anthropology the book illuminates how social actors take up the ideals of law, equality and democratic representation in locally-meaningful ways to make their own national history in ways that may perpetuate violence and inequality.

Spis treści

Introduction: Telling and Re-telling Anthropological Tales of States and Conflicts     1. Transforming the Legal System: Expert Knowledge and the Promise of Equality      2. Disciplining Gendered Citizenship in the Courtroom     3. In Loco Parentis: Embodied Punishment and the State in the Classroom     4. The Unwritten Law, Legibility, and Land Conflicts      5. War Commemorations, the IRA, and an Uncertain Future       Conclusion: Legacies of Conflict, Violence, and the State

O autorze

Brigittine M. French is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Peace & Conflict Studies Program at Grinnell College. French is a linguistic anthropologist whose research focuses on testimony, violence, and rights in post-conflict nations. She is the author of Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala (2010). Her work has appeared in the Journal of Human Rights, American Anthropologist, Language in Society, and the Annual Review of Anthropology.