From ‘Ban‐the‐Bomb’ to ‘Ban‐the‐Increase

1960S Street Politics in Pre‐Civil Rights Belfast

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6074736
AutoresJ Nagle (0000-0001-8836-9942, University of Ulster, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen23
Número1
Páginas41-58
Fecha de publicación2008-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIrish Political Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0790-7184 • E-ISSN: 1743-9078
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07907180701767955
OpenAlexW1979926065
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas10

This paper illuminates two forms of street politics – ‘ban‐the‐bomb’ and housing tenants’ protests – prevalent in Belfast in the 1960s prior to the civil rights movement (CRM). This is done to highlight the role they played in developing forms of non‐violent direct action which directly contributed to the repertoires of protest utilised by the CRM. This has hitherto been downplayed in existing literature on the development of CRM. The paper also contextualises the ambivalent position that these street politics occupied regarding the question of Northern Ireland’s constitutional status, which meant that they could be co‐opted by the metanarratives of groups representing nationalism and unionism. Finally, the extent to which such grassroots collective action can be viewed as part of ‘right to the city’ struggles is also examined

Ambivalence · Civil society · Contentious politics · Direct action · Grassroots · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · Irish and British Studies · Law