Inequality, Identity, and the Politics of Northern Ireland: Challenges of Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation [Paperback]

Inequality, Identity, and the Politics of Northern Irelandexamines how the politics of threat and resentment, undergirded by persistent poverty and class and gender inequalities across Catholic and Protestant communities, shape dynamics of political conflict, while simultaneously giving way to critical subjectivities at the community level through which more transformative visions of peace may emerge.This book explores how enduring poverty and entrenched class and gender inequalities across Catholic and Protestant communities fuel political conflict and shape collective identities.Curtis C. Hollandis assistant professor of criminology and sociology at the State University of New York at Old Westbury.

Curtis Holland uses a mixed-method case study to draw on data generated from forty-one in-depth interviews with Belfast community leaders and politicians and a content analysis of British and Irish newspapers. This wonderful, well-written book uses a constructivist and intersectional approach to analyze the impact of relational and ethno-social fields of power, resistance narratives, and class inequalities that shape local, everyday people's agencies across and within their ethnopolitical groups in post-peace-accord Northern Ireland. This excellent study deserves a broad readership from academics, community activists, peacebuilders, policymakers, politicians, students, and those interested in the top-down and bottom-up dynamics of post-peace-accord societies like Northern Ireland. Sean Byrne, University of Manitoba

Curtis Holland provides an excellent and engaging overview of the main sociological and political processes that have emerged following the peace process in Northern Ireland. The book tackles head-on some of the major social issues that have arisen since the peace process and provides clear and forceful insights into the continuing effects that socioeconomic divisions and gender inequalities continue to have on shaping the naturlcË