Partitioned Lives: The Irish Borderlands

ISBN-13: 9781138269286 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 170 str.

Catherine Nash; Bryonie Reid

Opis

Partitioned Lives: The Irish Borderlands explores everyday life and senses of identity and belonging along a contested border whose official functions and local impacts have shifted across the twentieth century. It does so through the accounts of contemporary borderland residents in Ireland and Northern Ireland who share their reflections on and experiences of the border from the 1950s to the present day. Drawing on recent approaches within historical, political and cultural geography and the cross-disciplinary field of border studies, this book explores the Irish border in terms of its meanings but also, and importantly, through the objects and practices through which it was effectively constituted.

Recenzje

’The authors succeed in blending stories of the everyday lives of ordinary people living along the Irish border with a broader political and social analysis of borderlands more generally. Borderlands are always peripheral economically and politically, in this case complicated by contested narratives of identity and memory, and the violence of the past forty years. Partitioned Lives juxtaposes the everyday experience of border crossings, customs regulations, and smuggling ingenuity with enduring contradictions of cultural identity and political allegiances that subvert or bolster the existence of the frontier,' Patrick Duffy, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Part Ition: Political Origins, Historical Geographies, and the Making of the Irish Border; Chapter 3 Relative Calm: Borderland Life in the 1950s and 1960s; Chapter 4 The Troubles, the Border and Borderlands, 1969-1995; Chapter 5 After the Troubles: Reconfiguring the Border and Border Identities; Chapter 6 Afterword;

O autorze

Catherine Nash, Bryonie Reid