Intervening in Northern Ireland Paperback)
The articles in this special issue, drawn from a workshop hosted by the Institute of Governance, Queen s University, Belfast, explicitly engage with and challenge conventional academic analyses in…
Specifikacia Intervening in Northern Ireland Paperback)
The articles in this special issue, drawn from a workshop hosted by the Institute of Governance, Queen s University, Belfast, explicitly engage with and challenge conventional academic analyses in order to confront the ways in which the conflict on Northern Ireland has traditionally been represented and understood. Part of the reason for adopting this approach is because it is suggested that to a certain extent, academic analyses have defined the parameters of the conflict which has necessarily had implications for the shape of ensuing solutions. A further claim is that the persistent historical and political search for causes and solutions may be constitutive of the problems that conventional analysts seek to resolve. The articles in the first part introduce and problematize traditional analyses of the conflict. Additionally, these essays explain alternative approaches offering other