Peter Shirlow
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 303030 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Peter Shirlow |
| PRENOMES | Peter |
| SOBRENOME | Shirlow |
| ASSINATURA | SHIRLOW P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7483-9859 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 86 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 682 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Timing is everything
Identifying developmental patterns in intergroup contact and its relation with bias is crucial for improving prevention strategies around intergroup relations. This study applied time-varying effects modeling (TVEM) to examine age-based changes in relations between contact and bias in a divided community that included 667 youth ( M age = 15.74, SD = 1.97) from Belfast, Northern Ireland, a conflict-affected setting. The results suggest no change i…
Northern Ireland 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement
In this introduction, we set up a theme that runs through the special issue. There are, we suggest, two dominant readings of the Northern Irish peace process – one ‘liberal,’ the other ‘nationalist’ – that see the region in the process of becoming a multicultural (neo)liberal democracy, albeit in different constitutional settings. The teleogical nature of these perspectives means, however, that they fail to grasp what is perhaps the most essentia…
Seismic’ or stalemate? The (bio)politics of the 2021 Northern Ireland Census
This article provides a critical reading of the 2021 Census of Population in Northern Ireland. A close examination of the available data on religion and nationality leads us to suggest that the Census provides a distorted portrait of Northern Irish society in two crucial, and connected, senses. First, the operation of the Census creates incentives for many residents to identify in ethnoreligious terms who might not ordinarily do so. Second, the f…
Capturing value
The undertaking of a long-term study of art for reconciliation (AfR) throws up problematics in terms of instrumentalist evaluation, short-term funding, a lack of archiving and insufficient long-term view/memory of the activity. In researching twenty years of funding and practice we argue that the concepts of reconciliation lack conceptual coherence in approach within an environment that resonates with tensions and conflict. One reason for these t…
Trust, forgiveness, and peace
Following the signing of peace agreements, post-accord societies often remain deeply divided across group lines. There is a need to identify antecedents of youth’s support for peace and establish more constructive intergroup relations. This article explored the effect of out-group trust, intergroup forgiveness, and social identity on support for the peace process among youth from the historic majority and minority communities in Belfast, Northern…
Age as a Dynamic Moderator of Relations between Exposure to Political Conflict and Mental Health in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Identifying how, when, and under what conditions exposure to political conflict is associated with youth mental health problems is critical to developing programming to help youth exposed to various forms of political violence. The current study uses Time Varying Effects Modeling (TVEM) to examine how relations between exposure to ethno-politically motivated antisocial behavior and mental health problems change as a function of age in a sample of…
Relations Among Father's Presence, Family Conflict, and Adolescent Adjustment in Northern Ireland
Burgeoning evidence identifies the influence of fathers and, relatedly, fathers in the family context (e.g., family conflict), on adolescent adjustment. However, little is known about the significance of fathers’ presence in contexts of environmental risk. In a unique social–political context of economic and sociopolitical adversity, this study examined relations between adolescent adjustment, fathers’ presence, and family conflict in families in…
Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday
The Good Friday Agreement is widely celebrated as a political success story, one that has brought peace to a region previously synonymous across the globe with political violence. The truth, as ever, is rather more complicated than that. In many respects, the era of the peace process has seen Northern Irish society change almost beyond recognition. Those incidents of politically motivated violence that were once commonplace have become thankfully…
Lustration in Iraq
The invasion of Iraq and the subsequent laws of regime change were directed at the 'purification' of public sector employment. Such policies based upon removing transgressors from within the previous regime are commonly known as lustration. In Iraq, these were normatively presented as a required process for democracy building and victim recognition. However, in reality, lustration emerged problematically and essentially as a form of counter-insur…
Neoliberal place competition and culturephilia
In this article, we contribute to international debates on the impact and legacy of major cultural events. Using the theoretical backdrop of neoliberal urbanism, and our conceptual contribution of culturephilia, impact inflation and the three Cs, we examine Derry~Londonderry (D ~ L) UK City of Culture (CoC) 2013. Neoliberal urbanism generates fierce inter-city competition to host major cultural events, conditioning the actions of local stakeholde…
From the 'Long War' to the 'Long Peace
In this introduction, we set out to provide the appropriate historical context for the nine essays that follow. The article documents all of the tortuous course that the Northern Irish peace process has taken over the last two decades, but its principal focus falls on the period in which the previously unlikely pairing of Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party agreed to share power at Stormont. While the coalition partners were often at odds…
Mythic rights and conflict-related prisoner 're-integration
This article argues that within Northern Ireland the processes of disarmament, demobilisation and re-integration (DDR) remain incomplete. Despite general disarmament and demobilisation and a very significant fall in paramilitary violence, those imprisoned as a consequence of the conflict remain marginalised by vetting laws and other instruments of civic exclusion. This has significant consequences in terms of acknowledging that the conflict has c…
Adolescent Civic Engagement and Perceived Political Conflict
Adolescents are often exposed to the lasting effects of political conflict. Complementing existing research on negative outcomes in these settings, this article focuses on the role of the family ( N = 731 mother/adolescent dyads, 51% female, M = 14.72, SD = 1.99, years old at Time 1) in promoting constructive youth outcomes in response to perceived conflict in Northern Ireland. Exploratory factor analyses revealed two related forms of youth civic…
Introducing ‘Brexit Geographies’
This Special Issue (SI) of Space and Polity profiles the varied contributions of geographical inquiry to scholarly debates on the causes, meaning and implications of the UKs decision to Brexit from the EU. By way of framing the SI, this Introduction develops the argument that insofar as it is confronting, complicating and challenging geographical ideas and debates, Brexit recursively is intruding on and perhaps even implicating itself in the stru…
Neighborhood Effects of Intergroup Contact on Change in Youth Intergroup Bias
Impact of political conflict on trajectories of adolescent prosocial behavior
Counterbalancing the narrative of youth as either helpless victims or ruthless perpetrators, a new generation of research in conflict settings focuses on their peace-building potential, including constructs such as prosocial behaviors and civic engagement. Previous research on the impact of political violence on prosocial behaviors in mixed, finding both positive and negative links. This study examines this relation using a launch and ambient app…
Twenty Years after the Belfast Agreement
Twenty years after the Agreement with two names (Belfast and Good Friday) we have, following W.B. Yeats, shifted from the intensity of the ‘great hatred’ but remain confined in the ‘little room’. Hatred remains but the daily drip of sectarian and state violence has lost flow. Northern Ireland is always located in discursive moments. Tussling as it does with the main narratives and tropes of identity. The Northern Ireland Assembly has been part su…
Truth Friction in Northern Ireland
The Belfast Agreement ended the bulk of paramilitary and state violence, underlined majority consent, acknowledged the desire for Irish unification, reformed policing, de-militarised security and embedded ethno-sectarian power-sharing. However, the past remains unhealed and without an adequate vocabulary and behaviour required to structure conflict transformation. This article argues that the responsibility of politicians and other agents of vict…
Contested heritages and cultural tourism
The fascination with death and disaster has encouraged the development of distinctive tourism markets, the rediscovery of sites and places of past conflict and all accompanied with uneasy narratives about what they mean and how they should be consumed. The increasingly stratified tourist economy and the interplay between demand and supply has also stimulated a complex set of ontological, socio-political and indifferent responses as places and int…
Measuring the macrosystem in postaccord Northern Ireland
The macrosystem refers to the overarching patterns that influence behavior at each level of the social ecology (Bronfenbrenner, 1977), making it a necessary component for assessing human development in contexts of political violence. This article proposes a method for systematically measuring the macrosystem in Northern Ireland that allows for a subnational analysis, multiple time units, and indicators of both low-level violence and positive rela…
Fashioning a City of Culture
The current trend in public policy is to valorise culture as a tool for social, economic and political transformation. This paper offers a direct contribution to debates that seek to unpack and problematise cities of culture. We adopt a more circumspect approach towards some aspects of the anticipated transformative powers of culture, and in particular the tendency to fetishize the economics of culture. Our empiricism is grounded in a detailed st…
Political Violence and Adolescent Out‐group Attitudes and Prosocial Behaviors
The negative impact of political violence on adolescent adjustment is well-established. Less is known about factors that affect adolescents' positive outcomes in ethnically-divided societies, especially influences on prosocial behaviors toward the outgroup, which may promote constructive relations. For example, understanding how intergroup experiences and attitudes motivate outgroup helping may foster intergroup cooperation and help to consolidat…
Youth in contexts of political violence
Going beyond the association between youth exposure to political violence and psychopathology, the current paper examines within-person change in youth strength of identity with their ethno-political group and youth reports of the insecurity in their communities. Conceptually related but growing out of different paradigms, both group identity and emotional insecurity have been examined as key variables impacting youth responses to threats from ot…
Rejection, Shaming, Enclosure, and Moving On
This article unpacks the variant meanings, perceptions, and experiences of violent enactment and stigmatic shaming among loyalists with regard to rejection, harm, and masking. What we locate is a landscape of variable emotions, experiences, neutralization techniques, dependences, and embedded forms of fatalism as well as resilience. Attending to those alternate positions and well-beings is important in considering the capacity of re-integration a…
Northern Ireland
In the closing months of 1994, the principal paramilitary organizations in Northern Ireland declared that their campaigns of violence were at an end. The cease-fires called by republican and loyalist groupings represented the most significant heralds of a complex process of conflict transformation that continues to unfold even twenty years on. In this introduction, we set out to map the key developments that have shaped the tortuous narrative of …
Belfast
Who fears to speak
2003). ‘Who fears to speak’: Fear, mobility, and ethno‐sectarianism in the two ‘ardoynes’. Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Vol. 3, Northern Ireland, pp. 76-91
Re-imagining DDR
Drawing upon criminological studies in the field of prisoner rehabilitation, this essay explores the relevance of the Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) framework to the process of conflict transformation in Northern Ireland. In a similar fashion to the critique of `passivity' offered by, for example, the `strengths based' or `good lives' approach to prisoner resettlement and reintegration more generally, the authors contend that…
Ethno-sectarianism and the reproduction of fear in Belfast
Within Belfast most violent arenas the designing of place-centred communities, which actively resist an ethno-sectarian 'other', has been achieved via symbolic practice and the perpetuation and reproduction of religious segregation. This paper explores how political and religious segregation has within Belfast has been accomplished through regulating social contact between communities so as to direct the political 'logic' of spatial enclosure. Se…
The Battle of the Somme in Ulster memory and identity
Belfast
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Language, discourse and dialogue
Capacity-building, Representation and Intracommunity Conflict
This paper explores the nature of community capacity-building in the context of local development. It challenges some of the simplistic constructions of community as a distinctive stakeholder with a shared set of values and clear identity. Even in apparently homogeneous place-based communities such as in the Catholic Ardoyne area of North Belfast there are important differences in the way in which local people interact with the organised voluntar…
Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday
The Good Friday Agreement is widely celebrated as a political success story, one that has brought peace to a region previously synonymous across the globe with political violence. The truth, as ever, is rather more complicated than that. In many respects, the era of the peace process has seen Northern Irish society change almost beyond recognition. Those incidents of politically motivated violence that were once commonplace have become thankfully…
Abandoning historical conflict
Drawing on over 150 interviews with former IRA, INLA, UVF and UFF prisoners, this is a major analysis of why Northern Ireland has seen a transition from war to peace. Most accounts of the peace process are 'top-down', relying upon the views of political elites. This book is 'bottom-up', analysing the voices of those who actually 'fought the war'. What made them fight, why did they stop and what are the lessons for other conflict zones? Based on a…
Loyalism, Linfield and the territorial politics of soccer fandom in Northern Ireland
It is generally recognised that sport, and particularly soccer, plays an important role in the construction and reproduction of identities in modern society. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the centrality of sporting spaces in the identity formation and reinforcement of soccer fans. Centred around a geography of socio‐cultural domination and/or resistance in which power relations are spatialised and imagined in distinct and …
Social Identity and Youth Aggressive and Delinquent Behaviors in a Context of Political Violence
The goal of the current study was to examine the moderating role of in‐group social identity on relations between youth exposure to sectarian antisocial behavior in the community and aggressive behaviors. Participants included 770 mother‐child dyads living in interfaced neighborhoods of Belfast. Youth answered questions about aggressive and delinquent behaviors as well as the extent to which they targeted their behaviors toward members of the oth…
The geography of loyalist paramilitary feuding in Belfast
This paper examines the nature of paramilitary feuding among Ulster Loyalists. The growth in feuding between Loyalist groups has been an evident feature of discord following the 1994 ceasefires. Such feuding is cast as a competition between extensive criminal empires. Such analyses are challenged here. It is contended that the meaning of feuding is varied and responsive to those who wish to destabilise and those who promote the need for conflict …
Devolution and the Politics of Development in Northern Ireland
The reintroduction of devolution in Northern Ireland is widely interpreted as the working out of the Belfast Agreement (1998) which aimed to embed political consensus in shared institutions of the state. However, such analysis tends to be limited with regard to wider political economy readings of the devolution project and historic struggles to find an appropriate institutional fix to manage different forms of crisis. Peace and stability have, it…
Political violence and child adjustment in Northern Ireland
Moving beyond simply documenting that political violence negatively impacts children, we tested a social-ecological hypothesis for relations between political violence and child outcomes. Participants were 700 mother-child (M = 12.1 years, SD = 1.8) dyads from 18 working-class, socially deprived areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland, including single- and two-parent families. Sectarian community violence was associated with elevated family conflict …
Key Concepts in Political Geography
Covering the expected staples such as nationalism territoriality, scale and political economy, as well as anit-statism, the other, gender and post-conflict, this is an ideal companion text for students of political geography
Conflict, Transformation, and Former Loyalist Paramilitary Prisoners in Northern Ireland
Following the 1998 Belfast Agreement in Northern Ireland, levels of paramilitary violence have declined substantially. Among loyalists, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and associated Red Hand Commando (RHC) have formally renounced violence, and dissolved their ‘military structures’, and perhaps the most reticent of all of the major paramilitary groupings, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), has taken on board the central tenets of conflict tra…
Resistance, Transition and Exclusion
The landscape of political imprisonment in Northern Ireland was changed due to the general release and reintegration of politically motivated prisoners as part of the Belfast Agreement. This article reflects upon the post-prison experiences of former prisoners and their families, and in particular how the move from a resistant to a transitional framework has facilitated a greater openness and willingness amongs ex-prisoners to acknowledge the per…
The geographies and politics of fear
Background This special issue arose from a collective sense of disappointment and frustration with prominent academic and policy related debates around 'the fear of crime'. Since its 'discovery' in the 1970s and 80s, fear has remained an important and obvious theme for academic and government researchers, the media and politicians. There is no denying the substance of fear in terms of media coverage, political manipulation and public discourse. F…
The Geography of Conflict and Death in Belfast, Northern Ireland
The conflict known as the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland began during the late 1960s and is defined by political and ethno-sectarian violence between state, pro-state, and anti-state forces. Reasons for the conflict are contested and complicated by social, religious, political, and cultural disputes, with much of the debate concerning the victims of violence hardened by competing propaganda-conditioning perspectives. This article introduces a dat…
Authenticity and stakeholder planning in the segregated city
Impact of political conflict on trajectories of adolescent prosocial behavior
Counterbalancing the narrative of youth as either helpless victims or ruthless perpetrators, a new generation of research in conflict settings focuses on their peace-building potential, including constructs such as prosocial behaviors and civic engagement. Previous research on the impact of political violence on prosocial behaviors in mixed, finding both positive and negative links. This study examines this relation using a launch and ambient app…
Forward to the Past? Loyalist Paramilitarism in Northern Ireland Since 1994
This article considers in detail loyalist paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland since the paramilitary cease-fires of 1994. The continuing nature of contemporary loyalist violence is documented with reference to sectarian attacks against members of the “Other”/Catholic community and associated symbols of that community, violence directed at other loyalists, and the potential for future violence given constitutional uncertainty regarding North…
When leisure turns to fear
There has been a considerable amount of academic discussion of the type of constraints that influence the non-use of leisure facilities. These analyses have taken into consideration such factors as gender, social class, age and mobility. At least some of these include the fear of entering certain spaces as an additional constraint. This paper reveals that in Belfast, fear, which may be based either on personal experience or on imaginary scenarios…
An elusive agenda
Any potential resolution to the conflict in Northern Ireland depends on the deconstruction of the stereotypical ethnic distinction between Catholic/Nationalist/ Republican and Protestant/Unionist/British and associated notions of zero‐sum territorialty. This paper discusses some of the evidence for more diverse, pluralist and inclusive conceptualizations of identity, which might be reflected in accommodationist political alignments. Particular at…
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Peter Shirlow of the School of Geosciences, the Queen's University of Belfast, critically examines the economic development policies of the Irish Republic based upon the attraction of foreign direct investors. It is argued that Ireland's G D P has been grossly exaggerated because of transfer price fixing by transnational corporations and that the strategy of attracting T N Cs has failed to benefit indig…
Sectarianism, Socioeconomic Competition and the Political Economy of Ulster Loyalism
Within this paper we chart the link between class and the politics of Loyalism in Northern Ireland. In so doing we argue that sectarianism is a socio‐cultural construct which undermines the potential for political stability. The paper analyzes the evolution of Loyalism and in so doing contends that the extreme political violence which emanated from certain paramilitary groups was conditioned by socio‐economic and political alterations in Northern…
Loyalism, Linfield and the territorial politics of soccer fandom in Northern Ireland
It is generally recognised that sport, and particularly soccer, plays an important role in the construction and reproduction of identities in modern society. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the centrality of sporting spaces in the identity formation and reinforcement of soccer fans. Centred around a geography of socio‐cultural domination and/or resistance in which power relations are spatialised and imagined in distinct and …
On the Margins
Traditionally, studies of disabled people’s access to the labour market have \nbeen largely restricted to labour market 'censuses' , often conducted by government agencies, \nand econometric studies. This paper explores disabled people’s access to and experiences of \nemployment in Donegal, West Ireland, using a qualitative approach. Twelve disabled \npeople and four non-disabled helpers, divided into two focus groups, were interviewed using \nan…
An elusive agenda
Any potential resolution to the conflict in Northern Ireland depends on the deconstruction of the stereotypical ethnic distinction between Catholic/Nationalist/ Republican and Protestant/Unionist/British and associated notions of zero‐sum territorialty. This paper discusses some of the evidence for more diverse, pluralist and inclusive conceptualizations of identity, which might be reflected in accommodationist political alignments. Particular at…
Language, discourse and dialogue
People in conflict in place
Northern Ireland Between Peace and War
Who is going to Toss the Burgers'? Social Class and the Reconstruction of the Northern Irish Economy
As highlighted by Finlayson, in this special issue on (Northern) Ireland, the dominant agenda in terms of political identity is still defined by rival and atavistic nationalisms. In many ways what can be concluded is that the 'Peace Process' cannot, at least in the short to medium term, resolve the nature and grip of sectarianism over (Northern) Irish society. What in effect remains is a process of managing disunity and the opposing nationalisms …
Devolution in Northern Ireland/Ulster/the North/Six Counties
The aim of the Agreement and devolution in Northern Ireland is to draw together atavistic political groups in order to promote a consociational accord which upholds minority rights and cultural demands. However, it is important to understand that disagreements between the pro-British and pro-Irish populations remain and that devolution has a multiplicity of political and cultural meanings. Indeed, determining the incapacity of Northern Irish soci…
The Battle of the Somme in Ulster memory and identity
When leisure turns to fear
There has been a considerable amount of academic discussion of the type of constraints that influence the non-use of leisure facilities. These analyses have taken into consideration such factors as gender, social class, age and mobility. At least some of these include the fear of entering certain spaces as an additional constraint. This paper reveals that in Belfast, fear, which may be based either on personal experience or on imaginary scenarios…
Who fears to speak
2003). ‘Who fears to speak’: Fear, mobility, and ethno‐sectarianism in the two ‘ardoynes’. Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Vol. 3, Northern Ireland, pp. 76-91
The geographies and politics of fear
Background This special issue arose from a collective sense of disappointment and frustration with prominent academic and policy related debates around 'the fear of crime'. Since its 'discovery' in the 1970s and 80s, fear has remained an important and obvious theme for academic and government researchers, the media and politicians. There is no denying the substance of fear in terms of media coverage, political manipulation and public discourse. F…
Ethno-sectarianism and the reproduction of fear in Belfast
Within Belfast most violent arenas the designing of place-centred communities, which actively resist an ethno-sectarian 'other', has been achieved via symbolic practice and the perpetuation and reproduction of religious segregation. This paper explores how political and religious segregation has within Belfast has been accomplished through regulating social contact between communities so as to direct the political 'logic' of spatial enclosure. Se…
Shaping childhood risk in post‐conflict rural Northern Ireland
The realities of the ethno‐sectarian conflict have dominated the analysis of social problems within the context of Northern Ireland (NI). As a result of this, issues such as non‐conflict related childhood risk have received less attention than in the remainder of the UK. However, with the rapidly changing agenda of the Peace Process there is now the momentum to take a broader approach to examining Northern Irish society. This paper examines child…
Capacity-building, Representation and Intracommunity Conflict
This paper explores the nature of community capacity-building in the context of local development. It challenges some of the simplistic constructions of community as a distinctive stakeholder with a shared set of values and clear identity. Even in apparently homogeneous place-based communities such as in the Catholic Ardoyne area of North Belfast there are important differences in the way in which local people interact with the organised voluntar…
Resistance, Transition and Exclusion
The landscape of political imprisonment in Northern Ireland was changed due to the general release and reintegration of politically motivated prisoners as part of the Belfast Agreement. This article reflects upon the post-prison experiences of former prisoners and their families, and in particular how the move from a resistant to a transitional framework has facilitated a greater openness and willingness amongs ex-prisoners to acknowledge the per…
Belfast
Belfast
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter ShirlowFax:+44 (0)28 9036 6806
The geography of loyalist paramilitary feuding in Belfast
This paper examines the nature of paramilitary feuding among Ulster Loyalists. The growth in feuding between Loyalist groups has been an evident feature of discord following the 1994 ceasefires. Such feuding is cast as a competition between extensive criminal empires. Such analyses are challenged here. It is contended that the meaning of feuding is varied and responsive to those who wish to destabilise and those who promote the need for conflict …
Measuring Workforce Segregation
In this paper I examine the scope of publicly available information on the religious composition of employees in private-sector companies in Northern Ireland. I highlight the unavailability of certain types of monitoring data and the impact of data aggregation at company as opposed to site level. Both oversights lead to underestimates of the extent of workplace segregation in Northern Ireland. The ability to provide more-coherent data on workplac…
Spatial segregation and labour market processes in Belfast
This article examines the nature of labour market exclusion in Belfast and policy responses to the dilemmas of ethnic space. It highlights the value of an area-based approach to understanding the way in which social and ethno-sectarian segregation mediates access to production sites and job opportunities in the wider urban economy. Research from the Belfast metropolitan labour market is used to identify the importance of employment in neutral are…
Beyond the Wire
The Maintenance of Republican Ideology and Tactics in the Discourses of IRA Former Prisoners
The debate concerning ideology and ideological shifts during peace-building in Northern Ireland has generally failed to account for the attitudes and opinions of former combatants concerning the nature and meaning of discursively constructed identities and political strategies. This invisibility is peculiar in that debates concerning ideological shifts have been driven by academic analysis or by those former combatants who maintain that the Irish…
Political science (74 obras) · Sociology (67 obras) · Politics (53 obras) · Law (47 obras) · Irish and British Studies (45 obras) · Law (44 obras) · Psychology (35 obras) · Criminology (29 obras) · Northern ireland (27 obras) · Ethnology (25 obras)