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Conflict, territory and new technologies: Online interaction at a Belfast interface (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

Conflict, territory and new technologies: Online interaction at a Belfast interface (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

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This article examines the relationship between new information and communication technologies and territorial boundaries through an analysis of online interaction oriented around a sectarian interface in north Belfast. It is widely argued that new information and communication technologies are contributing to fundamental changes in the nature of territory and boundaries, with many arguing that they contribute to a deterritorialisation of social interaction. This article argues that new technologies neither transcend nor obliterate territorial boundaries but in certain senses reinforce and extend the role of physical boundaries as orienting locations for hostile interaction. Focusing on the interlinked territorial strategies of penetration and surveillance it argues that online interaction facilitates the extension and elaboration of territorial strategies oriented around physical lines of confrontation and the associated development of new material practices oriented around the phys...

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2496

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Echanges épistolaires Echanges épistolaires en anthropologie : l'enquête Harvard-Irlande/ Letters in anthropological research: the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936) (2012)

Byrne, Anne

Echanges épistolaires Echanges épistolaires en anthropologie : l'enquête Harvard-Irlande/ Letters in anthropological research: the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936) (2012)

Byrne, Anne

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This article examines a selection of the professional and private letters associated with the social anthropology strand of the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936). These research letters contribute to the historiography of the first visit to Europe in the 1930s of an American team of anthropologists and archaeologists engaged in a multi-disciplinary study of a 'modern' society. How letters are deployed, who writes to whom, what is relayed, requested or refused reveals the deployment of a novel research strategy by anthropologists Arensberg and Kimball. Letters to and from research informants reveal not only the anthropologists' requests but informant voices, perspectives and practices - material that informs ethnographic observations on Irish town and country life. The complexities of informant-researcher relationships are also highlighted. A narrative approach to the analysis of research letters is introduced.

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2555

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Family and Community: (Re)Telling Our Own Story (2012)

Byrne, Anne

Family and Community: (Re)Telling Our Own Story (2012)

Byrne, Anne

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The contribution of family, kin and community relations to sustaining a rural way of life was the primary focus of Arensberg and Kimball's anthropological study of Irish families in the 1930s, published as Family and Community in Ireland (1940, 1968, 2001). It is a detailed ethnographic study of the familial, communal, and economic relationships of the small farmer class of rural Clare in the west of Ireland. Through the frame of a collaborative community research project with an artist, sociologist and the descendents of the families written about, in this article we explore the consequences of the 1930s anthropological study for community identity and how a research project based on Kimball¿s 1930s field diary provided an opportunity for community members to tell their own story of family and community in the 21st century. A narrative inquiry approach is deployed, honouring the power of local stories to disrupt dominant narratives.

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2552

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Forgetting and Remembering: Place and Space in the work of Yvonne Cullivan (2012)

Byrne, Anne

Forgetting and Remembering: Place and Space in the work of Yvonne Cullivan (2012)

Byrne, Anne

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2561

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Reframing Online: Ulster Loyalists Imagine an American Audience (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

Reframing Online: Ulster Loyalists Imagine an American Audience (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

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This article examines one initiative aimed at taking advantage of new technologies to build new transnational connections between a political movement in the ¿homeland¿ and a diaspora population in the United States. It analyzes an initiative by Ulster loyalists in Northern Ireland to mobilize Americans of Ulster Protestant descent in support of their cause, while simultaneously attempting to undermine the American support base of their Irish nationalist opponents. By contrast with Irish nationalists, Ulster loyalists have never had significant support networks in the United States. This attempt to mobilize a distant diaspora has met with little success. This article argues that loyalist understandings of their imagined audience in the United States are built on a misleading caricature of Irish-American support networks for Irish republicans. These misunderstandings direct loyalists towards a strategy that places undue weight on the role of homeland propaganda in converting shared a...

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2495

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Singular Identities Managing Stigma, Resisting Voices (2012)

Byrne, Anne

Singular Identities Managing Stigma, Resisting Voices (2012)

Byrne, Anne

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This paper argues that single women are stigmatised in contemporary Irish society and that this is particularly evident in people's everyday interactions with single women. Stigmatising interactions are apparent in relation to singleness itself, marital status, the bearing of children and sexuality, indicating the pervasiveness of heterosexual, familistic ideologies in Irish society. The paper describes a set of stigma management strategies deployed by women in response to single stigma. Within these responses, emerging forms of resistance to dominant ideologies of womanhood are evident in women's explanations of 'why I am single'.

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2554

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Territoriality and Order in the North of Ireland (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

Territoriality and Order in the North of Ireland (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

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This article draws on the recent academic literature on territoriality and power to analyse territorial strategies for the maintenance of public order in the north of Ireland. It argues that these strategies were shaped decisively by the distinctive relationship between the informal internal ethnonational boundaries that were a central focus of Frank Wright's work and the external boundary of the Northern Ireland state. As a consequence, the 'internal' issue of policing was immediately and inextricably bound up with the outer boundary of the state, even at the level of everyday policing practices. It traces the way in which the state in Northern Ireland adopted particular territorial strategies to secure the external border and adapt to internal territorial unevenness from the outset. It argues that order was necessarily maintained through a limited recognition of the distinctive ethnonational character of particular areas within the state, and by distinctive territor...

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2494

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The role of an intermediary in back-channel negotiation: Evidence from the Brendan Duddy Papers (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

The role of an intermediary in back-channel negotiation: Evidence from the Brendan Duddy Papers (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

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This article draws on the newly available private papers of Brendan Duddy, the key intermediary in contacts between the British government and the IRA between the early 1970s and the early 1990s when the IRA moved towards a permanent ceasefire and a negotiated settlement of the conflict. It draws too on extensive interviews with Duddy and other key participants in these contacts, and on newly available documents from the UK National Archives to identify some of the key dimensions to the role of intermediary in back-channel communication. It argues that these sources help us to better understand the complexity and ambiguity of the role of intermediary in sensitive covert negotiations, as well as shedding light on the extent to which an intermediary shapes communication between two parties rather than simply acting as a channel between them.

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2491

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Together in the middle: Back-Channel Negotiation in the Irish Peace Process (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

Together in the middle: Back-Channel Negotiation in the Irish Peace Process (2012)

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall

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This article examines the development of cooperative relationships in back-channel communication and their impact on intraparty negotiation. It draws on extensive newly available evidence on back-channel communication in the Irish peace process to expand the range of detailed case studies on a topic which is shrouded in secrecy and resistant to academic inquiry. The article analyses the operation of a secret back channel that linked the Irish Republican Army to the British government over a period of 20 years, drawing on unique material from the private papers of the intermediary, Brendan Duddy, and a range of other primary sources. The article finds that interaction through this back channel increased predictability and laid a foundation of extremely limited trust by providing information and increasing mutual understanding. Strong cooperative relationships developed at the intersection between the two sides, based to a great extent on strong interpersonal relationships and continu...

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2492

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When in Rome, you do as the Romans do? Black Africans and social work in the Republic of Ireland (2020)

Marovatsanga, Washington

When in Rome, you do as the Romans do? Black Africans and social work in the Republic of Ireland (2020)

Marovatsanga, Washington

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The research project investigates why a social work response, in neo-liberal times and specifically in the Irish context, is largely ineffective, reluctant and incoherent in providing services to Black African communities.To promote the reshaping of responses to this significant and rising population, the investigation explored the notion of ‘culturally competent’ practice (and underpinning education), institutional service delivery and policy responses. Key findings from qualitative and interpretive analyses suggest that whilst the majority of practitioners accurately define ‘culturally competent practice’ at both practitioner and institutional levels, significant constraints were palpable: 1: At the individual practitioner habitus level, social work education (imbued with a largely monocultural, ethnocentric and liberal Eurocentric worldview) prevented some of them from mentally stepping outside of dominant paradigms. 2: The neoliberal policy ethos spawn practices and institutio...

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/15938

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