Overview
- Examines how and why people shift their sense of identity in divided societies and in post-conflict contexts
- Offers a socially-contextualized comparative and empirical analysis of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
- Challenges other research and assumptions about the impermeability of boundaries and the polarising effects of violent conflict
- Presents a typology of identity change which shows the obstacles specific to each type of change
- Discusses policy implications
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict (PSCAC)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores everyday identity change and its role in transforming ethnic, national and religious divisions. It uses very extensive interviews in post-conflict Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the early 21st century to compare the extent and the micro-level cultural logics of identity change. It widens comparisons to the Gard in France, and uses multiple methods to reconstruct the impact of identity innovation on social and political outcomes in the 2010s. It shows the irreducible causal importance of identity change for wider compromise after conflict. It speaks to those interested in Cultural Sociology, Politics, Conflict and Peace Studies, Nationalism, Religion, International Relations and European and Irish Studies.
Reviews
“It remains unclear how this ethic can apply to politicians whose raison d’être depends on ethnic boundary making and who strike fear rather than safety into both in- and out-group members. In some ways, the question is out with the rationale for the book, but having identified the ways that change can occur, a follow-up might be to explore how change can be cultivated. Todd’s book is an indispensable guide to that question and ought to be read by students of identity change.” (Cillian McGrattan, Journal of British Studies, May 12, 2020)
“This book is a profound contribution to our knowledge of identity innovation across the island of Ireland and more broadly. It is an excellent example of how ambitious data collection and deep research can develop theories that provide convincing accounts of complex social phenomena and provide the basis for generalisation.” (Dawn Walsh, Irish Political Studies, April 11, 2019)
“I can say without hesitation that it is a landmark study. Its theoretical and empricial insights make it required reading not only for those interested in the island of ireland, but for generalist seeking greater understanding of how identities change. … it is another original and important contribution which iexpect to influence scholars and policy makers for years to come.” (Gladys Ganiel, gladysganiel.com, December 11, 2018)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jennifer Todd is Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin; Member of the Royal Irish Academy; Research Director, Institute for British Irish Studies, UCD; Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute, Florence (2016); Fellow of Geary Institute UCD, (2016-); and Fellow, Political Studies Association of Ireland (2017-9).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Identity Change after Conflict
Book Subtitle: Ethnicity, Boundaries and Belonging in the Two Irelands
Authors: Jennifer Todd
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98503-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98502-2Published: 05 December 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40489-5Published: 21 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98503-9Published: 23 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-2797
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2800
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 279
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Peace Studies, Sociology of Culture, Conflict Studies, Crime and Society, Ethnicity Studies