Liam O'Dowd
Biographic Data
| ID | 4537943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liam O'Dowd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liam |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Dowd |
| SIGNATURE | DOWD L O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 362 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Urban Conflicts
Religion, Violence and Cities
The catalyst for this special issue was a symposium entitled Religion, Violence and Cities, held under the auspices of a five year inter-disciplinary research project on ethno-nationally divided cities.Footnote1 While this project expressly addressed cities divided by ethno-national conflict, it was clear from the beginning that there was an important religious dimension to such conflicts in most, if not all, the cities being studied.Footnote2 Th…
Three narratives in search of a city
This paper highlights the role of narratives in expressing, shaping and ordering urban life, and as tools for analysing urban conflicts. The paper distinguishes analytically between two prominent epistemological meta-narratives in contemporary urban studies and multiple ontological narratives in a given city—in this case Belfast. The first meta-narrative represents cities as sites of deepening coercion, violence and inequality and the second sees…
Urban Intersections
Addressing the intersections of religion and violence in ‘post conflict’ Belfast, this paper focuses on the nexus between religion, violence and memory. It distinguishes between the churches (institutionalised religion) embedded in the physical and social environment of the city, and popular religion that recurs in the contexts of parades, protests and sectarian conflict. Wider debates on the relationships between religion, violence and politics …
Promoting Civil Society Across the Borders of the EU Neighbourhood
One of the aims of this article it to clarify the nature of the debate over ‘civil society’ and its relationship to the state. It begins by suggesting that the EU's borderland provides a context in which deep-rooted ‘Western’ and ‘Eastern’ understandings of state and civil society meet and overlap. The second section outlines the geo-political reshaping of the ‘Neighbourhood’. It concentrates on the influence of non-EU actors, notably Russia, com…
From a 'Borderless World' to a 'World of Borders
The first part of the paper explores some of the reasons why contemporary border studies understate the full significance of state borders and their global primacy. It is argued that this failing is rooted in a much wider lack of historical reflexivity-a reluctance to acknowledge the historical positioning (the 'where and when') of contemporary border studies themselves. This reluctance encourages a form of pseudohistory, or 'epochal thinking', w…
Structures and narratives of border change
The proliferation, differentiation, and re-configuration of political borders are integral parts of the story of contemporary globalization. In this context, borders and borderlands have proved to be compelling sites for studying empirically the relationships between processes of capital accumulation, new forms of governance and transformations of identity manifest in different forms at the level of large geo-economic blocs, states, and sub-state…
The transformation of the Irish border
Imperialism and nationalism
Culture and Cooperation in Europe’s Borderland
Scholarly interest in the study of state borders and border regions is growing in Europe, keeping pace with the remarkable changes associated with the transformation of old borders and the creation of new ones in the European Union and beyond over the last fifteen years. Social scientists have increasingly examined cross-border co-operation as one way to understand the changes which affect European borderlands. Ironically, given the recent turn t…
A Sociology of Ireland
Introduction
(2002). Introduction: Why Study Borders Now? Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 1-12
The Changing Significance of European Borders
Borders, Border Regions and Territoriality
ANDERSON J. and O'DOWD L. (1999) Borders, border regions and territoriality: contradictory meanings, changing significance, Reg. Studies 33 , 593-604. The meaning and significance of state borders, as well as their geographical location, can change drastically over space and time. Along with their associated regions, they have competing and contradictory meanings, both material and symbolic. Their particularities require localized study but also …
Contested Borders
ANDERSON J. and O'DOWD L. (1999) Contested borders: globalization and ethno-national conflict in Ireland, Reg. Studies 33 , 681-696. The Irish state border provides an interesting case study of interrelationships between the sharpened borders of ethno-national conflict and the more permeable borders of the European Single Market. It highlights the interplay of state and ethno-national borders. It links questions often associated with the violent …
Coercion, territoriality and the prospects for a negotiated settlement in Ireland
Borders, Nations and States
Frontiers of sovereignty in the new Europe, Liam O'Dowd and Thomas M. Wilson punctured sovereignty, border regions and the environment within the European Union, Susan Baker transfrontier co-operation at the external borders of the EU - implications for sovereignty, Giovanni Delli Zotti ethnic-regionalism versus the state - the case of Italy's Northern Leagues, Rainmondo Strassoldo astride two states - cross-border co-operation in the Basque Coun…
Borders, National Sovereignty and European Integration
Religion and Economic Change in Northern Ireland
L'A. met en question les interpretations du conflit en Irlande du Nord qui privilegient certains facteurs religieux et/ou economiques. Il montre que ces facteurs ont une action reciproque qui determine les relations entre les communautes protestantes et catholiques. La forme du conflit, le role de l'Etat britannique et les processus du changement economique ont contribue a supporter l'identite de chaque communaute et a maintenir les desavantages …
The States of Ireland
Sociology in Ireland
Bringing Hong Kong to Belfast? The case of an enterprise zone
From Labour to the Tories
Urban politics in Belfast
Borders, Border Regions and Territoriality
ANDERSON J. and O'DOWD L. (1999) Borders, border regions and territoriality: contradictory meanings, changing significance, Reg. Studies 33 , 593-604. The meaning and significance of state borders, as well as their geographical location, can change drastically over space and time. Along with their associated regions, they have competing and contradictory meanings, both material and symbolic. Their particularities require localized study but also …
From a 'Borderless World' to a 'World of Borders
The first part of the paper explores some of the reasons why contemporary border studies understate the full significance of state borders and their global primacy. It is argued that this failing is rooted in a much wider lack of historical reflexivity-a reluctance to acknowledge the historical positioning (the 'where and when') of contemporary border studies themselves. This reluctance encourages a form of pseudohistory, or 'epochal thinking', w…
The Changing Significance of European Borders
Three narratives in search of a city
This paper highlights the role of narratives in expressing, shaping and ordering urban life, and as tools for analysing urban conflicts. The paper distinguishes analytically between two prominent epistemological meta-narratives in contemporary urban studies and multiple ontological narratives in a given city—in this case Belfast. The first meta-narrative represents cities as sites of deepening coercion, violence and inequality and the second sees…
Contested Borders
ANDERSON J. and O'DOWD L. (1999) Contested borders: globalization and ethno-national conflict in Ireland, Reg. Studies 33 , 681-696. The Irish state border provides an interesting case study of interrelationships between the sharpened borders of ethno-national conflict and the more permeable borders of the European Single Market. It highlights the interplay of state and ethno-national borders. It links questions often associated with the violent …
Imperialism and nationalism
The transformation of the Irish border
Introduction
(2002). Introduction: Why Study Borders Now? Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 1-12
From Labour to the Tories
Urban Intersections
Addressing the intersections of religion and violence in ‘post conflict’ Belfast, this paper focuses on the nexus between religion, violence and memory. It distinguishes between the churches (institutionalised religion) embedded in the physical and social environment of the city, and popular religion that recurs in the contexts of parades, protests and sectarian conflict. Wider debates on the relationships between religion, violence and politics …
Coercion, territoriality and the prospects for a negotiated settlement in Ireland
Promoting Civil Society Across the Borders of the EU Neighbourhood
One of the aims of this article it to clarify the nature of the debate over ‘civil society’ and its relationship to the state. It begins by suggesting that the EU's borderland provides a context in which deep-rooted ‘Western’ and ‘Eastern’ understandings of state and civil society meet and overlap. The second section outlines the geo-political reshaping of the ‘Neighbourhood’. It concentrates on the influence of non-EU actors, notably Russia, com…
Religion, Violence and Cities
The catalyst for this special issue was a symposium entitled Religion, Violence and Cities, held under the auspices of a five year inter-disciplinary research project on ethno-nationally divided cities.Footnote1 While this project expressly addressed cities divided by ethno-national conflict, it was clear from the beginning that there was an important religious dimension to such conflicts in most, if not all, the cities being studied.Footnote2 Th…
Borders, National Sovereignty and European Integration
Religion and Economic Change in Northern Ireland
L'A. met en question les interpretations du conflit en Irlande du Nord qui privilegient certains facteurs religieux et/ou economiques. Il montre que ces facteurs ont une action reciproque qui determine les relations entre les communautes protestantes et catholiques. La forme du conflit, le role de l'Etat britannique et les processus du changement economique ont contribue a supporter l'identite de chaque communaute et a maintenir les desavantages …
Bringing Hong Kong to Belfast? The case of an enterprise zone
Urban politics in Belfast
From Labour to the Tories
Bringing Hong Kong to Belfast? The case of an enterprise zone
Sociology in Ireland
The States of Ireland
Religion and Economic Change in Northern Ireland
L'A. met en question les interpretations du conflit en Irlande du Nord qui privilegient certains facteurs religieux et/ou economiques. Il montre que ces facteurs ont une action reciproque qui determine les relations entre les communautes protestantes et catholiques. La forme du conflit, le role de l'Etat britannique et les processus du changement economique ont contribue a supporter l'identite de chaque communaute et a maintenir les desavantages …
Borders, National Sovereignty and European Integration
Borders, Nations and States
Frontiers of sovereignty in the new Europe, Liam O'Dowd and Thomas M. Wilson punctured sovereignty, border regions and the environment within the European Union, Susan Baker transfrontier co-operation at the external borders of the EU - implications for sovereignty, Giovanni Delli Zotti ethnic-regionalism versus the state - the case of Italy's Northern Leagues, Rainmondo Strassoldo astride two states - cross-border co-operation in the Basque Coun…
Coercion, territoriality and the prospects for a negotiated settlement in Ireland
Borders, Border Regions and Territoriality
ANDERSON J. and O'DOWD L. (1999) Borders, border regions and territoriality: contradictory meanings, changing significance, Reg. Studies 33 , 593-604. The meaning and significance of state borders, as well as their geographical location, can change drastically over space and time. Along with their associated regions, they have competing and contradictory meanings, both material and symbolic. Their particularities require localized study but also …
Contested Borders
ANDERSON J. and O'DOWD L. (1999) Contested borders: globalization and ethno-national conflict in Ireland, Reg. Studies 33 , 681-696. The Irish state border provides an interesting case study of interrelationships between the sharpened borders of ethno-national conflict and the more permeable borders of the European Single Market. It highlights the interplay of state and ethno-national borders. It links questions often associated with the violent …
A Sociology of Ireland
Introduction
(2002). Introduction: Why Study Borders Now? Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 1-12
The Changing Significance of European Borders
Culture and Cooperation in Europe’s Borderland
Scholarly interest in the study of state borders and border regions is growing in Europe, keeping pace with the remarkable changes associated with the transformation of old borders and the creation of new ones in the European Union and beyond over the last fifteen years. Social scientists have increasingly examined cross-border co-operation as one way to understand the changes which affect European borderlands. Ironically, given the recent turn t…
The transformation of the Irish border
Imperialism and nationalism
Structures and narratives of border change
The proliferation, differentiation, and re-configuration of political borders are integral parts of the story of contemporary globalization. In this context, borders and borderlands have proved to be compelling sites for studying empirically the relationships between processes of capital accumulation, new forms of governance and transformations of identity manifest in different forms at the level of large geo-economic blocs, states, and sub-state…
From a 'Borderless World' to a 'World of Borders
The first part of the paper explores some of the reasons why contemporary border studies understate the full significance of state borders and their global primacy. It is argued that this failing is rooted in a much wider lack of historical reflexivity-a reluctance to acknowledge the historical positioning (the 'where and when') of contemporary border studies themselves. This reluctance encourages a form of pseudohistory, or 'epochal thinking', w…
Promoting Civil Society Across the Borders of the EU Neighbourhood
One of the aims of this article it to clarify the nature of the debate over ‘civil society’ and its relationship to the state. It begins by suggesting that the EU's borderland provides a context in which deep-rooted ‘Western’ and ‘Eastern’ understandings of state and civil society meet and overlap. The second section outlines the geo-political reshaping of the ‘Neighbourhood’. It concentrates on the influence of non-EU actors, notably Russia, com…
Religion, Violence and Cities
The catalyst for this special issue was a symposium entitled Religion, Violence and Cities, held under the auspices of a five year inter-disciplinary research project on ethno-nationally divided cities.Footnote1 While this project expressly addressed cities divided by ethno-national conflict, it was clear from the beginning that there was an important religious dimension to such conflicts in most, if not all, the cities being studied.Footnote2 Th…
Three narratives in search of a city
This paper highlights the role of narratives in expressing, shaping and ordering urban life, and as tools for analysing urban conflicts. The paper distinguishes analytically between two prominent epistemological meta-narratives in contemporary urban studies and multiple ontological narratives in a given city—in this case Belfast. The first meta-narrative represents cities as sites of deepening coercion, violence and inequality and the second sees…
Urban Intersections
Addressing the intersections of religion and violence in ‘post conflict’ Belfast, this paper focuses on the nexus between religion, violence and memory. It distinguishes between the churches (institutionalised religion) embedded in the physical and social environment of the city, and popular religion that recurs in the contexts of parades, protests and sectarian conflict. Wider debates on the relationships between religion, violence and politics …
Urban Conflicts
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Politics (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Irish and British Studies (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Irish (5 works)