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Partitioned Lives: The Irish Borderlands (Paperback)
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Partitioned Lives: The Irish Borderlands (Paperback)
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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 shared
with us their reflections on and experiences of the border from the
1950s to the present day. Since the border is the product of the
partition of the island and the creation of Northern Ireland, its
meaning has been deeply entangled with the radically and often
violently opposed perspectives on the legitimacy of Northern
Ireland and the political reunification of the island. Yet the
intensely political symbolism of the border has meant that
relatively little attention has been paid to the lived experience
of the border, its material presence in the landscape and in
people's lives, and its materialisation through the practices and
policies of the states on either side. Drawing on recent approaches
within historical, political and cultural geography and the
cross-disciplinary field of border studies, this book redresses
this neglect by exploring the Irish border in terms of its meanings
(from the political to the personal) but also, and importantly,
through the objects (from tables of custom regulations and travel
permits to road blocks and military watch towers) and practices
(from official efforts to regulate the movement of people and
objects across it to the strategies and experiences of those
subject to those state policies) through which it was effectively
constituted. The focus is on the Irish border as practised,
experienced and materially present in the borderlands.
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