The Legacies of the Dead
Commemorating the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4475701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Graham (University of Ulster), Yvonne Whelan (School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Road, Bristol BS8 1SS, England) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 476-495 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d70j |
| OpenAlex | W2130325681 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 22 |
The Belfast Agreement of 1998, which initiated the so-called Peace Process in Northern Ireland, was fashioned so as to avoid creating mechanisms for addressing the legacy of the past, not least the commemoration of the fatalities of the Troubles which began in 1969. In this paper we explore, first, the role of the past and practices of commemoration in unagreed societies such as Northern Ireland in which consensus appears an unlikely proposition, the focus being on inclusion and exclusion and on the role of the contested nature of a hierarchical victimhood in commemoration. Second, the discussion engages with a succession of interconnected ideas that define the spatiality and landscapes of commemoration and considers the practices and spatialization of commemorating the Troubles within the grounded reality of everyday life and within the pragmatism of politics in Northern Ireland. We argue that processes of remembering and forgetting the dead of the Troubles point, at best, to a democracy shaped by 'conflictual consensus', in which the contested heritage of victimhood both constitutes an important resource in ethnonationalist and ethnosectarian politics and undermines the consociational Belfast Agreement and its attempt to elide the burdens of the past
Democracy · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Northern ireland · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
Memory and History in Northern Ireland
The Cambridge History of Ireland
Victimhood, Identity, and Agency in the Early Phase of the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Commemoration as Symbolic Reparation
Tracing the Troubles through the Trees
The Iraq casualty, the listed monument and the missing child
Time Elapsed
The Malleability of Memory and Irish Republican Memory Entrepreneurship
Signs of trouble
The 3Rs of integration
Heroes and hierarchies
Problematising Symbolic Reparation
Historical geography 2007—2008
Haunting and transitional justice
Naming and framing victims
Making sense of segregation
Narrative and the Start of the Northern Irish Troubles
Corpses, dead body politics and agency in human geography
The politics of Troubles memories in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, 1998 to 2018
Redrawing cognitive maps of conflict
Paradoxes and challenges of transitional justice at the ‘local’ level
From thorn to thorn
Creating liminal spaces of collective possibility in divided societies
Ethnurgy, mobilisation, memory and trauma in consociational systems
Zero-sum politics in contested spaces
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Over our dead bodies
Political imprisonment and the sanctity of death
Antiquity at the National Memorial Arboretum
Geographies of Conflict and Post-Conflict in Northern Ireland
Reframing Memory in the School Classroom
Violence and the Dialectics of Landscape
Theorizing Violence and the Dialectics of Landscape Memorialization
They Have Different Ways of Doing Things
Overcoming the Troubles in Westeros
Rethinking Difficult Pasts
Fear, Silence, and Telling
Paramilitary Imprisonment in Northern IrelandResistance, Management, and Release
Building peace
History and memory in modern Ireland
Contemporary Northern Irish Society
Trauma and the Memory of Politics
The Dead, the Law, and the Politics of the Past
Dissonant heritage
And They Think I'm Just a Nice Old Lady' Women and War in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Democracy and Northern Ireland
The New Northern Irish Politics
Hunger and history
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning
The Battle of the Somme in Ulster memory and identity
Private griefs, public places
Region and place
Publicity, Privacy, and Women's Political Action
Commemorative Dis(re)membering
Ideological Hegemony and the Political Symbolism of Religious Buildings in Singapore
The Past in the Present
A profound edge
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,06 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |