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This book stems from a simple 'feminist curiosity' that can be
succinctly summed up into a single question: what happens to
combatant women after the war? Based on in-depth interviews with 40
research participants, mostly former combatants within the Irish
Republican Army (IRA), this book offers a critical exploration of
republican women and conflict transition in the North of Ireland.
Drawing on the feminist theory of a continuum of violence, this
book finds that the dichotomous separation of war and peace within
conventional approaches represents a gendered fiction. Despite
undertaking wartime roles that were empowering, agentic, and
subversive, this book finds that the 'post-conflict moment' as
experienced by female combatants represents not peace and security,
but a continuity of gender discrimination, violence, injustice, and
insecurity. The experiences and perspectives contained in this book
challenge the discursive deployment of terms such as post-conflict,
peace, and security, and moreover, shed light on the many forms of
post-war activism undertaken by combatant women in pursuit of
peace, equality, and security. The book represents an important
intervention in the field of gender, political violence, and peace,
and more specifically, female combatants and conflict transition.
It is analytically significant in its exploration of the ways in
which gender operates within non-state military movements emerging
from conflict, and will be of interest to students and scholars
alike.
The Good Friday Agreement is widely celebrated as a political
success story, one that has brought peace to a region that was once
synonymous around the globe with political violence. The truth, as
ever, is rather more complicated than that. In many respects, the
era of the peace process has seen Northern Irish society change
almost beyond recognition. Those incidents of politically motivated
violence that were once commonplace have become thankfully rare and
a new generation has emerged whose identities and interests are
rather more fluid and cosmopolitan than those of their
predecessors. However, Northern Ireland continues to operate in the
long shadow of its own turbulent past. Those who were victims of
violence, as well as those who were its agents, have often been
consigned to the margins of a society still struggling to cope with
the traumas of the Troubles. Furthermore, the transition to 'peace'
has revealed the existence of new, and not so new, forms of
violence in Northern Irish society, directed towards women, ethnic
minorities and the poor. Northern Ireland a generation after Good
Friday sets out to capture the complex, and often contradictory,
realities that have emerged more than two decades on from the
region's vaunted peace deal. Across nine original essays, the
authors offer a critical and comprehensive reading of a society
that often appears to have left its violent past behind but at the
same time remains subject to its gravitational pull. -- .
Though forced displacement constituted a central and pervasive
feature of the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' effecting tens of
thousands of citizens, remarkably it has been afforded little more
than a footnote or fleeting reference in most accounts of the
conflict. This book seeks to 'end the silence' surrounding this
neglected and ubiquitous aspect of the conflict. Based on 88
in-depth qualitative interviews with victims and survivors, and
extensive secondary research, this fascinating study provides the
first comprehensive examination of forced displacement in Northern
Ireland. The analysis presented captures the unique perspectives of
those forcibly uprooted over the course of the 30-year conflict and
places on historical record their stories and experiences. This
thought-provoking work challenges and broadens prevailing
understandings of conflict-related violence, harm, and loss in
Northern Ireland to demonstrate the centrality of forced movement,
territory, and demographics to the roots and subsequent trajectory
of the Troubles. In doing so, it shows that to fully understand the
eruption and outplaying of the Troubles and its elusive peace,
engagement with and understanding of the legacy of forced
displacement is crucial.
This book stems from a simple 'feminist curiosity' that can be
succinctly summed up into a single question: what happens to
combatant women after the war? Based on in-depth interviews with 40
research participants, mostly former combatants within the Irish
Republican Army (IRA), this book offers a critical exploration of
republican women and conflict transition in the North of Ireland.
Drawing on the feminist theory of a continuum of violence, this
book finds that the dichotomous separation of war and peace within
conventional approaches represents a gendered fiction. Despite
undertaking wartime roles that were empowering, agentic, and
subversive, this book finds that the 'post-conflict moment' as
experienced by female combatants represents not peace and security,
but a continuity of gender discrimination, violence, injustice, and
insecurity. The experiences and perspectives contained in this book
challenge the discursive deployment of terms such as post-conflict,
peace, and security, and moreover, shed light on the many forms of
post-war activism undertaken by combatant women in pursuit of
peace, equality, and security. The book represents an important
intervention in the field of gender, political violence, and peace,
and more specifically, female combatants and conflict transition.
It is analytically significant in its exploration of the ways in
which gender operates within non-state military movements emerging
from conflict, and will be of interest to students and scholars
alike.
The Good Friday Agreement is widely celebrated as a political
success story, one that has brought peace to a region that was once
synonymous around the globe with political violence. The truth, as
ever, is rather more complicated than that. In many respects, the
era of the peace process has seen Northern Irish society change
almost beyond recognition. Those incidents of politically motivated
violence that were once commonplace have become thankfully rare and
a new generation has emerged whose identities and interests are
rather more fluid and cosmopolitan than those of their
predecessors. However, Northern Ireland continues to operate in the
long shadow of its own turbulent past. Those who were victims of
violence, as well as those who were its agents, have often been
consigned to the margins of a society still struggling to cope with
the traumas of the Troubles. Furthermore, the transition to 'peace'
has revealed the existence of new, and not so new, forms of
violence in Northern Irish society, directed towards women, ethnic
minorities and the poor. Northern Ireland a generation after Good
Friday sets out to capture the complex, and often contradictory,
realities that have emerged more than two decades on from the
region's vaunted peace deal. Across nine original essays, the
authors offer a critical and comprehensive reading of a society
that often appears to have left its violent past behind but at the
same time remains subject to its gravitational pull. -- .
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