Duncan Morrow
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Duncan Morrow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Duncan |
| FAMILY NAME | Morrow |
| SIGNATURE | MORROW D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6890-9833 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ontological security and protracted conflict in frontier societies: Towards a trans-local turn in peacebuilding
This article proposes a trans-local turn in peacebuilding in frontier societies. Drawing on René Girard’s concept of ‘mimetic desire’, the article conceptualises how a crisis of ontological insecurity cannot be addressed by rational approaches to institutionalising a process to resolve incompatibilities between conflict parties, but requires de-escalation of the mimetic rivalry between the parties, who are often described as being in conflict ove…
Transformation or Truce? Tracing the Decline of “Reconciliation” and Its Consequences for Northern Ireland Since 1998
Reconciliation and consociation were at the core of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement (BGFA) in 1998. Analysis of the politics of the last 25 years in Northern Ireland (NI), however, reveals that many presumed aspects of reconciliation – integrated education, desegregated living, the disbandment of armed groups, cultural rapprochement, linguistic and cultural diversity, safe and secure shared public space, an approach to the past which puts the s…
No End of (Mimetic) Crises? Reflections on Mimetic Escalation, Order, and the Nature of Peacemaking in the Shadow of Brexit
Battling to the End, Girard could hardly have been clearer
Reconciliation and After in Northern Ireland: The Search for a Political Order in an Ethnically Divided Society
Since Westphalia, territoriality has been a critical element in the political management of violence. Where legitimacy was contested, as in the area that became Northern Ireland, territorial disputes often escalated into significant violence. The importance to human futures of controlling violence is the central theme of the work of Rene Girard. This article explores the implications of Girardian thinking for understanding both the escalation of …
Tackling Sectarianism in Scotland
The Advisory Group on Tackling Sectarianism in Scotland (AGoTS) was established in August 2012 to provide Scottish Ministers with impartial advice on how to develop and assess work to tackle sectarianism in Scotland. Key to the Group's work was understanding the forms that sectarianism may (or may not) take in contemporary Scotland, and how best to address these. This article sets out an overview of the Group, as well as outlining the key contour…
Northern Ireland Politics
After Antagonism? The British–Irish Ethnic Frontier after the Agreement
Frank Wright believed that the defining factor in the emergence of modern ethnicity is ‘a crisis of assimilation’ resulting in persistent and potentially violent antagonism between an emergent staatsvolk and its unassimilated competitors. As ‘the internal other’ represents a real danger, national self-assertion becomes the dominant mode of democratic political experience. Northern Ireland is a paradigmatic ethnic frontier but an unusual one. Part…
The Elusiveness of Trust
The Austrian Parliamentary Election of 1995
The unexpectedly early Austrian elections of 1995 resulted in the first setback for Jor Haider's dynamic far-right ‘Freieitlichen’ movement since he became party leader in 1986. The Austrian Social Democrats managed to overcome early inertia and mobilise the collective fear of many Austrians about the political and economic future and increase their parliamentary strength. Nevertheless, after the elections they used their strengthened position to…
The Austrian Parliamentary Election of 1995
The Northern Ireland forum elections of 1996
The 1997 British general election in Northern Ireland
An analysis of the implications of the 1997 UK General election for Northern Ireland and of the results in Northern IReland
Church and Religion in the Ulster Crisis
Religion, or at least religious labels, are hard to avoid in Northern Ireland. Indeed in the age of the mass media, conflict in Northern Ireland has become synonymous with religious divisions in many parts of the world. Even domestically, labels such as ‘Protestant’ and ‘Catholic’ remain the most commonly used shorthand in describing different social groups and even specific political positions. The impression lingers that conflict in Northern Ir…
America's usage gurus
An informal survey of language advice in American journalism
The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell 1821-61
Northern Ireland Politics
Reconciliation and After in Northern Ireland: The Search for a Political Order in an Ethnically Divided Society
Since Westphalia, territoriality has been a critical element in the political management of violence. Where legitimacy was contested, as in the area that became Northern Ireland, territorial disputes often escalated into significant violence. The importance to human futures of controlling violence is the central theme of the work of Rene Girard. This article explores the implications of Girardian thinking for understanding both the escalation of …
The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell 1821-61
America's usage gurus
An informal survey of language advice in American journalism
Church and Religion in the Ulster Crisis
Religion, or at least religious labels, are hard to avoid in Northern Ireland. Indeed in the age of the mass media, conflict in Northern Ireland has become synonymous with religious divisions in many parts of the world. Even domestically, labels such as ‘Protestant’ and ‘Catholic’ remain the most commonly used shorthand in describing different social groups and even specific political positions. The impression lingers that conflict in Northern Ir…
The Austrian Parliamentary Election of 1995
The unexpectedly early Austrian elections of 1995 resulted in the first setback for Jor Haider's dynamic far-right ‘Freieitlichen’ movement since he became party leader in 1986. The Austrian Social Democrats managed to overcome early inertia and mobilise the collective fear of many Austrians about the political and economic future and increase their parliamentary strength. Nevertheless, after the elections they used their strengthened position to…
The Austrian Parliamentary Election of 1995
The Northern Ireland forum elections of 1996
The 1997 British general election in Northern Ireland
An analysis of the implications of the 1997 UK General election for Northern Ireland and of the results in Northern IReland
The Elusiveness of Trust
After Antagonism? The British–Irish Ethnic Frontier after the Agreement
Frank Wright believed that the defining factor in the emergence of modern ethnicity is ‘a crisis of assimilation’ resulting in persistent and potentially violent antagonism between an emergent staatsvolk and its unassimilated competitors. As ‘the internal other’ represents a real danger, national self-assertion becomes the dominant mode of democratic political experience. Northern Ireland is a paradigmatic ethnic frontier but an unusual one. Part…
Northern Ireland Politics
Tackling Sectarianism in Scotland
The Advisory Group on Tackling Sectarianism in Scotland (AGoTS) was established in August 2012 to provide Scottish Ministers with impartial advice on how to develop and assess work to tackle sectarianism in Scotland. Key to the Group's work was understanding the forms that sectarianism may (or may not) take in contemporary Scotland, and how best to address these. This article sets out an overview of the Group, as well as outlining the key contour…
Reconciliation and After in Northern Ireland: The Search for a Political Order in an Ethnically Divided Society
Since Westphalia, territoriality has been a critical element in the political management of violence. Where legitimacy was contested, as in the area that became Northern Ireland, territorial disputes often escalated into significant violence. The importance to human futures of controlling violence is the central theme of the work of Rene Girard. This article explores the implications of Girardian thinking for understanding both the escalation of …
No End of (Mimetic) Crises? Reflections on Mimetic Escalation, Order, and the Nature of Peacemaking in the Shadow of Brexit
Battling to the End, Girard could hardly have been clearer
Transformation or Truce? Tracing the Decline of “Reconciliation” and Its Consequences for Northern Ireland Since 1998
Reconciliation and consociation were at the core of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement (BGFA) in 1998. Analysis of the politics of the last 25 years in Northern Ireland (NI), however, reveals that many presumed aspects of reconciliation – integrated education, desegregated living, the disbandment of armed groups, cultural rapprochement, linguistic and cultural diversity, safe and secure shared public space, an approach to the past which puts the s…
Ontological security and protracted conflict in frontier societies: Towards a trans-local turn in peacebuilding
This article proposes a trans-local turn in peacebuilding in frontier societies. Drawing on René Girard’s concept of ‘mimetic desire’, the article conceptualises how a crisis of ontological insecurity cannot be addressed by rational approaches to institutionalising a process to resolve incompatibilities between conflict parties, but requires de-escalation of the mimetic rivalry between the parties, who are often described as being in conflict ove…
Political science (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Irish and British Studies (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (5 works) · Ethnology (5 works) · Northern ireland (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)