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Northern Ireland and the Politics of Boredom - Conflict, Capital and Culture (Hardcover)
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Northern Ireland and the Politics of Boredom - Conflict, Capital and Culture (Hardcover)
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This book provides a new interpretation of the Northern Irish
Troubles. From internment to urban planning, the hunger strikes to
post-conflict tourism, it asserts that concepts of capitalism have
been consistently deployed to alleviate and exacerbate violence in
the North. Through a detailed analysis of the diverse cultural
texts, Legg traces the affective energies produced by capitalism's
persistent attempt to resolve Northern Ireland's ethnic-national
divisions: a process he calls the politics of boredom. Such an
approach warrants a reconceptualization of boredom as much as
cultural production. In close readings of Derek Mahon's poetry, the
photography of Willie Doherty and the female experience of
incarceration, Legg argues that cultural texts can delineate a more
democratic - less philosophical - conception of ennui. Critics of
the Northern Irish Peace Process have begun to apprehend some of
these tensions. But an analysis of the post-conflict condition
cannot account for capitalism's protracted and enervating impact in
Northern Ireland. Consequently, Legg returns to the origins of the
Troubles and uses influential theories of capital accumulation to
examine how a politicised sense of boredom persists throughout, and
after, the years of conflict. Like Left critique, Legg's attention
to the politics of boredom interrogates the depleted sense of
humanity capitalism can create. What Legg's approach proposes is as
unsettling as it is radically new. By attending to Northern
Ireland's long-standing experience of ennui, this book ultimately
isolates boredom as a source of optimism as well as a means of
oppression. -- .
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