C Gilligan
Biographic Data
| ID | 46992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Gilligan |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilligan |
| SIGNATURE | GILLIGAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of Scotland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5809-2708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Methodological nationalism and the Northern Ireland blind-spot in ethnic and racial studies
Northern Ireland (NI) has been one of the central issues in Brexit. Yet, it barely featured in the discussions in the run up to the EU Referendum in 2016. This blind-spot regarding NI has been a long-standing feature of social science research on the UK. This article examines the NI blind-spot, with a particular focus on its operation in ethnic and racial studies. The article examines the NI blind-spot as a methodological issue, through an applic…
Northern Ireland and the limits of the race relations framework
Anti-immigrant racism has become a prominent issue in Northern Ireland since 1998. It is an issue that is routinely understood and tackled through a 'race relations' framework. The first part of this article outlines and discusses the data on immigration and on recorded racist incidents in Northern Ireland, within a race relations framework. The second part of the article argues that the race relations framework is inherently limited because it t…
From civil rights to multiculturalism
The civil rights movement transformed the political landscape of Northern Ireland. The Nationalist Party, which had been the main political party representing Northern Irish Catholics, was swept aside by the civil rights mobilisations. The civil rights movement was an anti-racist movement. Protestors, inspired in part by the Civil Rights movement in the USA, mobilised against injustice and equality inequality. For some opponents of the sectarian …
Racisms and the Race Relations approach
This chapter focuses on the conception of racism that underpins Race Relations policy and theory. It examines both UK Race Relations policy and Northern Ireland's specific policy. The first articulation of the Race Relations approach emerged at the time of the First World War in the city of Chicago. Racisms are commonly associated with prejudice. In Northern Ireland, the association between racisms and prejudice can be seen in documents produced …
Differentiating racism and sectarianism
This chapter examines different arguments in favour of treating racism and sectarianism as distinct phenomena. Central to the debate about whether to treat sectarianism as racism lies a difficulty that bedevils ethnic and racial studies more broadly, the distinction between 'race', 'nation' and 'ethnic group'. The chapter focuses on Steve Garner's use of the concept of racisms to argue that, rather than thinking of racism in the singular, it is m…
Select bibliography and notes on sources
This book presents new theories and international empirical evidence on the state of work and employment around the world. Changes in production systems, economic conditions and regulatory conditions are posing new questions about the growing use by employers of precarious forms of work, the contradictory approaches of governments towards employment and social policy, and the ability of trade unions to improve the distribution of decent employmen…
Anti-racism and disavowed racism
This chapter argues that the coexistence of an avowed anti-racism and a disavowed racism has been characteristic of official state anti-racism from its origins. It presents a brief consideration of the internationalisation of the Race Relations approach through the UN, and the incorporation of Race Relations into domestic UK policy. The chapter outlines a number of different forms of anti-racism. White elites in the UK and USA conceded the idea o…
Hate crime
This chapter explores the limitations of a Race Relations approach to harassment through a critical examination of the most recent innovation in official anti-racism, hate crime policy, which formally came into operation in Northern Ireland in September 2004. It outlines some of the key features of hate crime policy and examines the political context and discussions which shaped the introduction of hate crimes law to the region. Hate crime policy…
Conclusion
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the relationship between theory and practice, between ideas and action. It presents the idea that Northern Ireland was a 'place apart' was both a product of state practices and an idea that framed many academic analyses of Northern Ireland. The book also examines different ideas about 'race' and racism and sectarianis…
Rethinking anti-racism
This chapter examines the conventional social science approach that underpins Race Relations theory and contrast this with the Hegelian-inspired approach that underpins the work of Karl Marx and the emancipatory strands of post-Marx Marxism. The purpose of this examination is not to provide an exhaustive explanation of either approach, but rather to highlight the essentially elitist nature of Race Relations theory. Immanuel Kant, the Enlightenmen…
Austerity and consociational government in Northern Ireland
This article examines the institutional crisis of the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2015 as a case study on the impact of austerity on multiculturalism in Ireland. I make a case for viewing the Assembly as a multicultural institution through pointing to the historical role of community relations policy, which was directed at reconciling “sectarian” Irish nationalists and Ulster unionists. It did so through shifting from an understanding of the con…
The Public and the Politics of Immigration Controls
The issue of immigration has become a major topic of discussion and policy activity in liberal democratic states in the twenty-first century. In the policy discourse, the media discussion and the academic literature there are two key assumptions which typically underpin thinking on the topic: first that a majority of the public are in favour of more restrictions on immigration and second, that public pressure pushes policy on immigration controls…
Managing Cultural Change
Race Defaced
Racisms
Fractures, Foreigners and Fitting In
The 1998 Peace Agreement was a (consociational) form of pluralist settlement designed to end conflict in Northern Ireland through giving institutional recognition to the rights and identities of the ‘two communities’ (nationalist and unionist) in Northern Ireland (with some provision for a third category ‘other’). Critics of the consociational nature of the Agreement have argued that it overstates the extent and nature of the communal divide in N…
The Aborigine's Protection Society
The Aborigine's Protection Society: Humanitarian Imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa and The Congo, 1837–1909 James Heartfield London, Hurst & Co., 2011, 288 pp., ISBN
Introduction
The academic literature on divided societies emerged from the study of colonial societies that were characterized by sharp and persistent cleavage along ethnic lines, and the study of consociational democracies in which there are power-sharing arrangements between two or more groups in an ethnically segmented society. The study of divided societies emerged historically at a moment when there was a growing interest in the study of immigration and …
Cyber racism
Cyber racism: White supremacy online and the new attack on civil rights." Visual Studies, 26(1), p. 79
Highly Vulnerable'? Political Violence and the Social Construction of Traumatized Children
Since the end of the Cold War, humanitarian interventions to provide psychological assistance to children exposed to political violence have become commonplace. Within the literature and the practices of organizations involved in interventions, there is a widespread conception that children exposed to political violence are highly vulnerable to psychological trauma. This article challenges this claim. The article examines a number of methodologic…
Digitizing race
Politics Without Sovereignty
Christopher J. Bickerton, Philip Cunliffe & Alexander Gourevitch (Eds) UCL Press, 2007 This collection crackles with contentious claims. Take, for example, this one from Tara McCormack's critique o
Northern Ireland Ten Years after the Agreement
This special issue of Ethnopolitics takes the tenth anniversary of the signing of a peace Agreement in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Good Friday 10 April 1998, as an opportunity to reflect on, and assess, developments in Northern Ireland since the Agreement. This introductory article provides both an outline of the articles which make up the main body of this special issue, and some background information on the Agreement. The first part provides…
The Irish question and the concept ‘identity’ in the 1980s1
This article critically investigates the social construction of ‘identity talk’ in relation to the Irish Question in the 1980s. Our contention is that the utilisation of ‘identity’ imagined people as bounded groups in a particular way – as the two traditions or communities in Northern Ireland – and that this way of imagining people was deployed against ‘will’‐based conceptions of politics. The first part of the article places the emergence of ‘id…
Traumatised by peace? A critique of five assumptions in the theory and practice of conflict-related trauma policy in Northern Ireland
English In recent years there has been a growing international recognition of the impact of violent conflict on mental health and a growth in interventions to deal with what have come to be referred to as the psychosocial dimensions of conflict. Mental health interventions are widely understood to be a crucial feature of contemporary peace building. This article critically examines the intersection of these two developments – peace building and p…
Traumatised by peace? A critique of five assumptions in the theory and practice of conflict-related trauma policy in Northern Ireland
English In recent years there has been a growing international recognition of the impact of violent conflict on mental health and a growth in interventions to deal with what have come to be referred to as the psychosocial dimensions of conflict. Mental health interventions are widely understood to be a crucial feature of contemporary peace building. This article critically examines the intersection of these two developments – peace building and p…
Politics Without Sovereignty
Christopher J. Bickerton, Philip Cunliffe & Alexander Gourevitch (Eds) UCL Press, 2007 This collection crackles with contentious claims. Take, for example, this one from Tara McCormack's critique o
Highly Vulnerable'? Political Violence and the Social Construction of Traumatized Children
Since the end of the Cold War, humanitarian interventions to provide psychological assistance to children exposed to political violence have become commonplace. Within the literature and the practices of organizations involved in interventions, there is a widespread conception that children exposed to political violence are highly vulnerable to psychological trauma. This article challenges this claim. The article examines a number of methodologic…
The Irish question and the concept ‘identity’ in the 1980s1
This article critically investigates the social construction of ‘identity talk’ in relation to the Irish Question in the 1980s. Our contention is that the utilisation of ‘identity’ imagined people as bounded groups in a particular way – as the two traditions or communities in Northern Ireland – and that this way of imagining people was deployed against ‘will’‐based conceptions of politics. The first part of the article places the emergence of ‘id…
The Public and the Politics of Immigration Controls
The issue of immigration has become a major topic of discussion and policy activity in liberal democratic states in the twenty-first century. In the policy discourse, the media discussion and the academic literature there are two key assumptions which typically underpin thinking on the topic: first that a majority of the public are in favour of more restrictions on immigration and second, that public pressure pushes policy on immigration controls…
Digitizing race
Austerity and consociational government in Northern Ireland
This article examines the institutional crisis of the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2015 as a case study on the impact of austerity on multiculturalism in Ireland. I make a case for viewing the Assembly as a multicultural institution through pointing to the historical role of community relations policy, which was directed at reconciling “sectarian” Irish nationalists and Ulster unionists. It did so through shifting from an understanding of the con…
Fractures, Foreigners and Fitting In
The 1998 Peace Agreement was a (consociational) form of pluralist settlement designed to end conflict in Northern Ireland through giving institutional recognition to the rights and identities of the ‘two communities’ (nationalist and unionist) in Northern Ireland (with some provision for a third category ‘other’). Critics of the consociational nature of the Agreement have argued that it overstates the extent and nature of the communal divide in N…
Introduction
The academic literature on divided societies emerged from the study of colonial societies that were characterized by sharp and persistent cleavage along ethnic lines, and the study of consociational democracies in which there are power-sharing arrangements between two or more groups in an ethnically segmented society. The study of divided societies emerged historically at a moment when there was a growing interest in the study of immigration and …
Northern Ireland Ten Years after the Agreement
This special issue of Ethnopolitics takes the tenth anniversary of the signing of a peace Agreement in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Good Friday 10 April 1998, as an opportunity to reflect on, and assess, developments in Northern Ireland since the Agreement. This introductory article provides both an outline of the articles which make up the main body of this special issue, and some background information on the Agreement. The first part provides…
Introduction
Traumatised by peace? A critique of five assumptions in the theory and practice of conflict-related trauma policy in Northern Ireland
English In recent years there has been a growing international recognition of the impact of violent conflict on mental health and a growth in interventions to deal with what have come to be referred to as the psychosocial dimensions of conflict. Mental health interventions are widely understood to be a crucial feature of contemporary peace building. This article critically examines the intersection of these two developments – peace building and p…
The Irish question and the concept ‘identity’ in the 1980s1
This article critically investigates the social construction of ‘identity talk’ in relation to the Irish Question in the 1980s. Our contention is that the utilisation of ‘identity’ imagined people as bounded groups in a particular way – as the two traditions or communities in Northern Ireland – and that this way of imagining people was deployed against ‘will’‐based conceptions of politics. The first part of the article places the emergence of ‘id…
Politics Without Sovereignty
Christopher J. Bickerton, Philip Cunliffe & Alexander Gourevitch (Eds) UCL Press, 2007 This collection crackles with contentious claims. Take, for example, this one from Tara McCormack's critique o
Northern Ireland Ten Years after the Agreement
This special issue of Ethnopolitics takes the tenth anniversary of the signing of a peace Agreement in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Good Friday 10 April 1998, as an opportunity to reflect on, and assess, developments in Northern Ireland since the Agreement. This introductory article provides both an outline of the articles which make up the main body of this special issue, and some background information on the Agreement. The first part provides…
Highly Vulnerable'? Political Violence and the Social Construction of Traumatized Children
Since the end of the Cold War, humanitarian interventions to provide psychological assistance to children exposed to political violence have become commonplace. Within the literature and the practices of organizations involved in interventions, there is a widespread conception that children exposed to political violence are highly vulnerable to psychological trauma. This article challenges this claim. The article examines a number of methodologic…
Digitizing race
Fractures, Foreigners and Fitting In
The 1998 Peace Agreement was a (consociational) form of pluralist settlement designed to end conflict in Northern Ireland through giving institutional recognition to the rights and identities of the ‘two communities’ (nationalist and unionist) in Northern Ireland (with some provision for a third category ‘other’). Critics of the consociational nature of the Agreement have argued that it overstates the extent and nature of the communal divide in N…
The Aborigine's Protection Society
The Aborigine's Protection Society: Humanitarian Imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa and The Congo, 1837–1909 James Heartfield London, Hurst & Co., 2011, 288 pp., ISBN
Introduction
The academic literature on divided societies emerged from the study of colonial societies that were characterized by sharp and persistent cleavage along ethnic lines, and the study of consociational democracies in which there are power-sharing arrangements between two or more groups in an ethnically segmented society. The study of divided societies emerged historically at a moment when there was a growing interest in the study of immigration and …
Cyber racism
Cyber racism: White supremacy online and the new attack on civil rights." Visual Studies, 26(1), p. 79
Racisms
Race Defaced
Managing Cultural Change
Austerity and consociational government in Northern Ireland
This article examines the institutional crisis of the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2015 as a case study on the impact of austerity on multiculturalism in Ireland. I make a case for viewing the Assembly as a multicultural institution through pointing to the historical role of community relations policy, which was directed at reconciling “sectarian” Irish nationalists and Ulster unionists. It did so through shifting from an understanding of the con…
The Public and the Politics of Immigration Controls
The issue of immigration has become a major topic of discussion and policy activity in liberal democratic states in the twenty-first century. In the policy discourse, the media discussion and the academic literature there are two key assumptions which typically underpin thinking on the topic: first that a majority of the public are in favour of more restrictions on immigration and second, that public pressure pushes policy on immigration controls…
From civil rights to multiculturalism
The civil rights movement transformed the political landscape of Northern Ireland. The Nationalist Party, which had been the main political party representing Northern Irish Catholics, was swept aside by the civil rights mobilisations. The civil rights movement was an anti-racist movement. Protestors, inspired in part by the Civil Rights movement in the USA, mobilised against injustice and equality inequality. For some opponents of the sectarian …
Racisms and the Race Relations approach
This chapter focuses on the conception of racism that underpins Race Relations policy and theory. It examines both UK Race Relations policy and Northern Ireland's specific policy. The first articulation of the Race Relations approach emerged at the time of the First World War in the city of Chicago. Racisms are commonly associated with prejudice. In Northern Ireland, the association between racisms and prejudice can be seen in documents produced …
Differentiating racism and sectarianism
This chapter examines different arguments in favour of treating racism and sectarianism as distinct phenomena. Central to the debate about whether to treat sectarianism as racism lies a difficulty that bedevils ethnic and racial studies more broadly, the distinction between 'race', 'nation' and 'ethnic group'. The chapter focuses on Steve Garner's use of the concept of racisms to argue that, rather than thinking of racism in the singular, it is m…
Select bibliography and notes on sources
This book presents new theories and international empirical evidence on the state of work and employment around the world. Changes in production systems, economic conditions and regulatory conditions are posing new questions about the growing use by employers of precarious forms of work, the contradictory approaches of governments towards employment and social policy, and the ability of trade unions to improve the distribution of decent employmen…
Anti-racism and disavowed racism
This chapter argues that the coexistence of an avowed anti-racism and a disavowed racism has been characteristic of official state anti-racism from its origins. It presents a brief consideration of the internationalisation of the Race Relations approach through the UN, and the incorporation of Race Relations into domestic UK policy. The chapter outlines a number of different forms of anti-racism. White elites in the UK and USA conceded the idea o…
Hate crime
This chapter explores the limitations of a Race Relations approach to harassment through a critical examination of the most recent innovation in official anti-racism, hate crime policy, which formally came into operation in Northern Ireland in September 2004. It outlines some of the key features of hate crime policy and examines the political context and discussions which shaped the introduction of hate crimes law to the region. Hate crime policy…
Conclusion
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the relationship between theory and practice, between ideas and action. It presents the idea that Northern Ireland was a 'place apart' was both a product of state practices and an idea that framed many academic analyses of Northern Ireland. The book also examines different ideas about 'race' and racism and sectarianis…
Rethinking anti-racism
This chapter examines the conventional social science approach that underpins Race Relations theory and contrast this with the Hegelian-inspired approach that underpins the work of Karl Marx and the emancipatory strands of post-Marx Marxism. The purpose of this examination is not to provide an exhaustive explanation of either approach, but rather to highlight the essentially elitist nature of Race Relations theory. Immanuel Kant, the Enlightenmen…
Northern Ireland and the limits of the race relations framework
Anti-immigrant racism has become a prominent issue in Northern Ireland since 1998. It is an issue that is routinely understood and tackled through a 'race relations' framework. The first part of this article outlines and discusses the data on immigration and on recorded racist incidents in Northern Ireland, within a race relations framework. The second part of the article argues that the race relations framework is inherently limited because it t…
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics (13 works) · Irish and British Studies (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Racism (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works)