Graham Dawson: Making peace with the past?

Cover: 9780719056727 | Making peace with the past? | Memory, trauma and the Irish troubles

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A study of memory and trauma in the conflict in Northern Ireland, and of how personal and collective remembrance has influenced the narratives of reconciliation

Über den Autor

Graham Dawson is a Reader in Cultural History at the University of Brighton. His research has focused on the inter-relations between cultural memory, narrative and identity, and on the memory of war in modern times. He is author of Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of Masculinities (Routledge, 1994), and a co-editor and contributor to Trauma: Life Stories of Survivors and Commemorating War: The Politics of Memory (both Transaction, 2004; first published in the Routledge Memory and Narrative series).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Political Transition, peace-making and the past

Part 1 Cultural memory, trauma, and conflict in the Irish Troubles
1. Memory, myth, and tradition: Concepts of the past in the Irish Troubles
2. Trauma, memory, politics: Paradoxes of the Irish peace process

Part 2 Remembering Bloody Sunday
3. Public arenas, personal testimonies: The institution and contestation of British offical memory of Bloody Sunday
4. Trauma and life-stories: Survivor memories of Bloody Sunday
5. Widening the circle of memory: Human rights and the politics of Bloody Sunday commemoration
6. Counter memory, truth and justice: Bloody Sunday and the Irish peace process

Part 3 'The Forgotten Victims?' Border Protestants and the Memory of Terror
7. The Troubles on the Border: Ulster-British identity and the cultural memory of 'ethnic cleansing'
8. Giving voice: Protestant and Unionist victims' groups and memories of the Troubles in the Irish peace process
9. Mobilizing memories: The Unionist politics of victimhood and the Good Friday Agreement
10. Remembrance, reconciliation, and the reconstruction of the site of the Enniskillen 'Poppy Day' bomb
Afterword
Bibliography

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780719056727
ISBN-10:	0719056721
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Dawson, Graham
Hersteller:	Manchester University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Graham Dawson
Erscheinungsdatum:	21.01.2010
Gewicht:	0,632 kg