B Rolston
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 12411 |
|---|---|
| NOME | B Rolston |
| PRENOMES | B |
| SOBRENOME | Rolston |
| ASSINATURA | ROLSTON B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Ulster |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6266-7394 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 165 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Colombia, Covid-19, and the Colonial Trap
The COVID-19 pandemic has made historical and contemporary colonial relationships between and within states more fraught. This complexity is apparent within the research process itself, adding a new dimension to debates on positionality and the politics of knowledge production. Drawing on critical approaches to International Relations, and in dialogue with an emerging literature on the implications of the pandemic for knowledge decolonization, we…
Ireland and Palestine
This article argues that, despite major differences across time and space, there are similarities between the colonial experience of the Irish in the mid-seventeenth century and the present-day colonial experience of Palestinians. This is illustrated by a detailed comparison of attacks by the Irish against English and Scottish settlers in 1641 and the Palestinian attack on Israel on 7 October 2023. In both cases, the indisputable violence of the …
International Expert Statement on Israeli State Crime
Las comisiones de la verdad y los legados coloniales
With its signing of the Havana Peace Agreement in 2016, Colombia sought to end an armed conflict that had lasted more than sixty years and had left nearly nine million victims. The agreement led to the establishment of a transitional justice (TJ) framework, including the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence, and Non-Repetition (CEV). This study identifies how the CEV incorporated the legacies of colonialism into its analytical f…
Navigating colonial debris
In recent years, interest has grown in how Transitional Justice (TJ) can approach colonial harms and their long-lasting effects, because of a lacuna in both TJ practice and academic research . Scant attention has been paid, particularly, to how peace processes themselves can be undermined by ongoing colonial legacies. In this article, we offer an in-depth case study on Colombia, particularly the Havana Peace Accord of 2016, and discuss how the de…
Ambushed by Memory
Initially, it critiques the state’s top-down role in the creation and propagation of collective memory and its consequent role in memorialization. It then considers a range of public memorials which are organized on a more bottom-up basis, including counter memorials, stumble stones and shrines. Finally, it considers one case study in depth, the phenomenon of memorial plaques in working-class areas of Belfast in memory of victims of the 30-year-l…
Colonialism, Redress and Transitional Justice
The article begins by addressing the contribution and limits of postcolonial studies to the understanding of colonialism; in particular, it critiques the field's fixation on the discursive to the detriment of the material reality of colonialism. We then examine the intellectual history of transitional justice (TJ) as a field and a practice and itemize some of the criticisms made of its shortcomings, not least in relation to colonial harms. These …
Male Republican Prisoners in Northern Ireland
The literature on male imprisonment consistently reveals a particular form of hegemonic masculinity based on competition, dominance and violence, actual or threatened. This article seeks to examine this standard view via the experience of republican politically motivated prisoners in Northern Ireland. It finds evidence of elements of hegemonic masculinity as in other prisons, but alongside this there was an alternative form of hegemonic masculini…
When everywhere is Karbala
In Tehran, murals depicting men who died in the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the Iran–Iraq war of 1980–1988 are ubiquitous. The murals represent an exercise in state propaganda, serving to remind citizens that these men died not simply for the nation but for Islam; they are martyrs. This message resonates with deeply held religious views in Iran. There is constant reference to the Battle of Karbala and the martyrdom of Imam Hossein, the grandso…
Women on the walls
The article documents the under-representation of women in political wall murals in Northern Ireland. There are significantly fewer representations of women than of men in these murals. Where women do appear, it is within a number of specific themes: as political activists, prisoners, victims or historical or mythological characters. The findings will be located within an analysis which sees the murals as a specific articulation of gender as a di…
Redress for past harms? Official apologies in Northern Ireland
This article critically examines the nature, role and function of official apologies with respect to conflict-related deaths in Northern Ireland. It draws on empirical research of investigations carried out by the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) in state involvement cases and in particular a sample of unpublished reports that prompted official apologies. These reports also contain individual ‘perpetrator’ apologies or expressions of regret. Apolo…
Taking Murals Seriously
Resistance and Pride
The small town of Orgosolo in the mountains of Sardinia is known for its murals: hundreds of them in a town of only 5,000 inhabitants. although murals exist throughout Sardinia, those of Orgosolo are noteworthy because of their political content. This article describes the origins of the mural tradition in the events of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the town. The combination of a left-wing council and youth group, as well as the powerful infl…
Re-entry problems
Re-entry into society after imprisonment is problematic. However, politically motivated prisoners can potentially draw on their collective solidarity and social legitimacy to smooth re-entry. That possibility is examined by focusing on ex-combatants in South Africa and Northern Ireland who organised against the state, but later came to support conflict transformation in a radically altered state. Re-entry was thus a two-way process where ex-priso…
Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
Introduction: Peace Dividend? The IRA and loyalist military groups declared ceasefires in 1994. Three and a half years later, the Good Friday or Belfast Agreement was signed by all political parties, leading eventually, and after a number of major setbacks, to the establishment of a devolved, power-sharing Assembly and Executive. To begin with, it is
S. Poynting and D. Whyte, Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence
Prison as a Liberated Zone
In Northern Ireland's Long Kesh prison in the late 1980s and 1990s, prisoners from each of the loyalist and republican groups painted highly politicized murals on the walls in their respective wings. This article seeks to examine these murals as both a symbol and a means whereby the politically motivated prisoners sought to appropriate the space of the prison for their own purposes. Their resistance, expressed in this and other ways, was not mere…
Re-imaging
This article focuses on the long history of mural painting in Northern Ireland and specifically on the changing relationship between mural painting and the state in various eras. Originally unionist murals were state-friendly, painted as part of the annual celebration of King William’s victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Later, murals were seen as beyond the pale, each for their own reasons; republican murals supported the armed struggle …
Hasta La Victoria
The article considers in detail mural painting in Santiago, Chile. It examines the history of mural painting, from the early days of support for Salvador Allende's attempt to combat inequality and provide for the basic needs of all citizens, through the repression of the military dictatorship, to the reemergence of the phenomenon in the transition to democracy and up to the present day. It identitifes a range of themes in the contemporary murals:…
Trying to reach the future through the past’
Ireland is sometimes said to be cursed with a surfeit of history; memory is seen as one of the principal causes of an endless cycle of violence. In contrast, this article focuses on collective memory and examines the way in which this was drawn on as a resource by republican and loyalist communities in terms of identity and endurance during almost four decades of conflict. These identities were displayed in various commemorations and symbols, inc…
“The Brothers on the Walls”
The article considers in detail a particular aspect of the political murals painted by the republican movement in Northern Ireland, namely their references to international themes rather than solely Irish matters. These murals are seen as an instance of solidarity with people in struggle elsewhere—against imperialism and state oppression—and thus represent recognition by Irish mural painters of their affinity to liberation movements elsewhere. As…
The burden of memory
The article examines the potential and limitations of storytelling for victims of political violence. It rejects the view that storytelling is unproblematic, a way for victims to ‘get things off their chest’. It examines a wide range of literature on storytelling and testimony, from the Holocaust through to contemporary transitional societies. In particular, attention is focused on the experience of victims and survivors telling their stories in …
Facing reality
The media can contribute to the reproduction of violent conflict in societies either through direct bias or more silent acquiescence. When wars end, therefore, the question arises as to the media's past role and the possibilities of reconstructing the media in such a way that it contributes to conflict transformation. This article looks at one specific situation, Northern Ireland, where during the violent political conflict over three decades the…
Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants
This article surveys the literature on the global experience of demobilization and reintegration of combatants after wars end. It examines the factors that contribute to successful programmes. Among these, the two most frequently emphasized are the political will of all concerned to ensure the programmes work, and the active participation of ex-combatants in their own programmes of reintegration. The article then examines the situation in Ireland…
Dealing with the Past
One promise of formal truth recovery processes, such as truth commissions, in transitional societies is that they present the possibility of a common narrative emerging about the causes of conflict. At the same time, there is now evidence that such processes also create silences; some narratives are not fully represented. One such silence is in relation to pro-state paramilitaries. Drawing extensively on interviews with a number of loyalist param…
Dealing with the Past
One promise of formal truth recovery processes, such as truth commissions, in transitional societies is that they present the possibility of a common narrative emerging about the causes of conflict. At the same time, there is now evidence that such processes also create silences; some narratives are not fully represented. One such silence is in relation to pro-state paramilitaries. Drawing extensively on interviews with a number of loyalist param…
The burden of memory
The article examines the potential and limitations of storytelling for victims of political violence. It rejects the view that storytelling is unproblematic, a way for victims to ‘get things off their chest’. It examines a wide range of literature on storytelling and testimony, from the Holocaust through to contemporary transitional societies. In particular, attention is focused on the experience of victims and survivors telling their stories in …
Politics, painting and popular culture
Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants
This article surveys the literature on the global experience of demobilization and reintegration of combatants after wars end. It examines the factors that contribute to successful programmes. Among these, the two most frequently emphasized are the political will of all concerned to ensure the programmes work, and the active participation of ex-combatants in their own programmes of reintegration. The article then examines the situation in Ireland…
Trying to reach the future through the past’
Ireland is sometimes said to be cursed with a surfeit of history; memory is seen as one of the principal causes of an endless cycle of violence. In contrast, this article focuses on collective memory and examines the way in which this was drawn on as a resource by republican and loyalist communities in terms of identity and endurance during almost four decades of conflict. These identities were displayed in various commemorations and symbols, inc…
Changing the Political Landscape
(2003). Changing the Political Landscape: Murals and Transition in Northern Ireland. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 3-16
The War of the Walls
2004). The War of the Walls: political murals in Northern Ireland. Museum International: Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 38-45
When everywhere is Karbala
In Tehran, murals depicting men who died in the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the Iran–Iraq war of 1980–1988 are ubiquitous. The murals represent an exercise in state propaganda, serving to remind citizens that these men died not simply for the nation but for Islam; they are martyrs. This message resonates with deeply held religious views in Iran. There is constant reference to the Battle of Karbala and the martyrdom of Imam Hossein, the grandso…
Re-imaging
This article focuses on the long history of mural painting in Northern Ireland and specifically on the changing relationship between mural painting and the state in various eras. Originally unionist murals were state-friendly, painted as part of the annual celebration of King William’s victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Later, murals were seen as beyond the pale, each for their own reasons; republican murals supported the armed struggle …
In the Full Glare of English Politics
Taking Foucault’s construction of ‘regimes of truth’ in advanced democratic societies as its starting point, this article reflects on three decades of formal investigation and public inquiry in the North of Ireland. Focusing particularly on the use and abuse of state power, it considers the reproduction of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic discourses and the processes through which they gain or are denied legitimacy. The Bloody Sunday Inquiry (BSI)…
Navigating colonial debris
In recent years, interest has grown in how Transitional Justice (TJ) can approach colonial harms and their long-lasting effects, because of a lacuna in both TJ practice and academic research . Scant attention has been paid, particularly, to how peace processes themselves can be undermined by ongoing colonial legacies. In this article, we offer an in-depth case study on Colombia, particularly the Havana Peace Accord of 2016, and discuss how the de…
Colonialism, Redress and Transitional Justice
The article begins by addressing the contribution and limits of postcolonial studies to the understanding of colonialism; in particular, it critiques the field's fixation on the discursive to the detriment of the material reality of colonialism. We then examine the intellectual history of transitional justice (TJ) as a field and a practice and itemize some of the criticisms made of its shortcomings, not least in relation to colonial harms. These …
Women on the walls
The article documents the under-representation of women in political wall murals in Northern Ireland. There are significantly fewer representations of women than of men in these murals. Where women do appear, it is within a number of specific themes: as political activists, prisoners, victims or historical or mythological characters. The findings will be located within an analysis which sees the murals as a specific articulation of gender as a di…
Taking Murals Seriously
Re-entry problems
Re-entry into society after imprisonment is problematic. However, politically motivated prisoners can potentially draw on their collective solidarity and social legitimacy to smooth re-entry. That possibility is examined by focusing on ex-combatants in South Africa and Northern Ireland who organised against the state, but later came to support conflict transformation in a radically altered state. Re-entry was thus a two-way process where ex-priso…
Redress for past harms? Official apologies in Northern Ireland
This article critically examines the nature, role and function of official apologies with respect to conflict-related deaths in Northern Ireland. It draws on empirical research of investigations carried out by the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) in state involvement cases and in particular a sample of unpublished reports that prompted official apologies. These reports also contain individual ‘perpetrator’ apologies or expressions of regret. Apolo…
Ireland of the welcomes’? racism and anti-racism in nineteenth-century Ireland
Irish society, North and South, has been slow to develop a social awareness and legal framework in relation to racism. This has resulted, in the main, from an unwillingness to admit to the presence of racism in Irish history and culture. Yet an examination of Irish society at the time of the visits of two black abolitionists to the country Olaudah Equiano in 1791 and Frederick Douglass in 1845—reveals deep currents of racism in both instances. Th…
Ireland
Oral History and Social Conflict
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRonnie MunckRonnie Munck And Bill Rolston are lecturers in sociology at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, and coauthors of Belfast in the Thirties: An Oral History (1986).Bill RolstonRonnie Munck And Bill Rolston are lecturers in sociology at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, and coauthors of Belfast in the Thirties: An Oral History (1986).
International Expert Statement on Israeli State Crime
Male Republican Prisoners in Northern Ireland
The literature on male imprisonment consistently reveals a particular form of hegemonic masculinity based on competition, dominance and violence, actual or threatened. This article seeks to examine this standard view via the experience of republican politically motivated prisoners in Northern Ireland. It finds evidence of elements of hegemonic masculinity as in other prisons, but alongside this there was an alternative form of hegemonic masculini…
Prison as a Liberated Zone
In Northern Ireland's Long Kesh prison in the late 1980s and 1990s, prisoners from each of the loyalist and republican groups painted highly politicized murals on the walls in their respective wings. This article seeks to examine these murals as both a symbol and a means whereby the politically motivated prisoners sought to appropriate the space of the prison for their own purposes. Their resistance, expressed in this and other ways, was not mere…
Facing reality
The media can contribute to the reproduction of violent conflict in societies either through direct bias or more silent acquiescence. When wars end, therefore, the question arises as to the media's past role and the possibilities of reconstructing the media in such a way that it contributes to conflict transformation. This article looks at one specific situation, Northern Ireland, where during the violent political conflict over three decades the…
The first time
The sexual health of people, particularly young people, in Northern Ireland is currently poor. Yet there has been little research conducted on sexual attitudes and lifestyles. This paper is based on data from the first ever major research project in this field in Northern Ireland. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, it targeted young people aged 14–25. A combination of a self‐administered survey questionnaire, focus group discussions and …
All news is local
This article examines and analyses how Northern Ireland's daily press reported the war in Iraq in 2003. Although much of the coverage relied heavily on news agency copy, the newspapers seized every opportunity to connect their readers to the conflict using local inflections and angles on the story: on occasion these efforts to “localise” the story were strained and at other times bizarre. The authors argue that such coverage diminishes the abilit…
Some thoughts on the passing of the N.I. community relations commission
(1976). Some thoughts on the passing of the N.I. community relations commission. New Community: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 311-315
Reformism and Class Politics in Northern Ireland
Community services in Northern Ireland
Oral History and Social Conflict
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRonnie MunckRonnie Munck And Bill Rolston are lecturers in sociology at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, and coauthors of Belfast in the Thirties: An Oral History (1986).Bill RolstonRonnie Munck And Bill Rolston are lecturers in sociology at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, and coauthors of Belfast in the Thirties: An Oral History (1986).
Bringing Hong Kong to Belfast? The case of an enterprise zone
Ireland
Communications
Politics, painting and popular culture
News Fit to Print
Belfast boasts reputedly the oldest extant English-language newspaper in the world, the News Letter . In addition, visitors to Belfast frequently remark on the stark ideological and political differences between this paper today and its closest rival, the Irish News . Yet, despite these two facts, it is remarkable that very little analysis of Belfast’s daily newspapers has been undertaken. Apart from some historical pamphlets and a few journalist…
Abortion in the New Europe
Introduction: Abortion in Europe, Present and Future by Bill Rolston and Anna Eggert Austria by Oskar Lehner Belgium by Vicky Claeys Britain by Madeleine Simms Bulgaria by Dimiter Vassilev Czech and Slovak Republics by Radim Uzel Denmark by Nell Rasmussen Finland by Marketta Ritamies France by Colette Gallard Germany by Sabine Klein-Schonnefeld Hungary by Adam Balogh and Laszlo Lampe Ireland by Anna Eggert and Bill Rolston Netherlands by Evert Ke…
From King Billy to Cú Chulainn
Éire-Ireland - Volume 32 Volume 33, Number 4, Geimhreadh/Winter 1997 / Number 1-2, Earrach/Samhradh/Spring/Summ
Crimes of Passion
Researching Young People and Sex in Northern Ireland
This paper reports on the first substantive attempt to accomplish in Northern Ireland what has been done in a number of other societies: namely, the investigation of the sexual attitudes and lifestyles of young people. Co-managed by the Family Planning Association Northern Ireland and the University of Ulster, the three-year research project focused on young people in Northern Ireland aged 14–25 years. In this paper we present some baseline resul…
Changing the Political Landscape
(2003). Changing the Political Landscape: Murals and Transition in Northern Ireland. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 3-16
Sexual behaviour of young people in Northern Ireland
Two National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles in Britain (Natsal) were conducted, one in 1990 and one in 2000. Northern Ireland was excluded from both studies. Now, for the first time, comparable data about sexual attitudes and lifestyles of young people (14- to 25-year-olds) in Northern Ireland are available. Data were collected through self-administered questionnaires, one-to-one interviews and focus-group discussions. As in Natsal 19…
The first time
The sexual health of people, particularly young people, in Northern Ireland is currently poor. Yet there has been little research conducted on sexual attitudes and lifestyles. This paper is based on data from the first ever major research project in this field in Northern Ireland. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, it targeted young people aged 14–25. A combination of a self‐administered survey questionnaire, focus group discussions and …
Ireland of the welcomes’? racism and anti-racism in nineteenth-century Ireland
Irish society, North and South, has been slow to develop a social awareness and legal framework in relation to racism. This has resulted, in the main, from an unwillingness to admit to the presence of racism in Irish history and culture. Yet an examination of Irish society at the time of the visits of two black abolitionists to the country Olaudah Equiano in 1791 and Frederick Douglass in 1845—reveals deep currents of racism in both instances. Th…
All news is local
This article examines and analyses how Northern Ireland's daily press reported the war in Iraq in 2003. Although much of the coverage relied heavily on news agency copy, the newspapers seized every opportunity to connect their readers to the conflict using local inflections and angles on the story: on occasion these efforts to “localise” the story were strained and at other times bizarre. The authors argue that such coverage diminishes the abilit…
The War of the Walls
2004). The War of the Walls: political murals in Northern Ireland. Museum International: Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 38-45
Sex education in Northern Ireland schools
To date there has been little research on young people and sexuality in Northern Ireland. This paper draws on the first major study in this area to analyse the delivery of formal sex education in schools. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to access young people's opinions about the quality of the sex education they had received at school. Overall, they reported high levels of dissatisfaction, with notable variations in relation …
In the Full Glare of English Politics
Taking Foucault’s construction of ‘regimes of truth’ in advanced democratic societies as its starting point, this article reflects on three decades of formal investigation and public inquiry in the North of Ireland. Focusing particularly on the use and abuse of state power, it considers the reproduction of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic discourses and the processes through which they gain or are denied legitimacy. The Bloody Sunday Inquiry (BSI)…
Dealing with the Past
One promise of formal truth recovery processes, such as truth commissions, in transitional societies is that they present the possibility of a common narrative emerging about the causes of conflict. At the same time, there is now evidence that such processes also create silences; some narratives are not fully represented. One such silence is in relation to pro-state paramilitaries. Drawing extensively on interviews with a number of loyalist param…
Facing reality
The media can contribute to the reproduction of violent conflict in societies either through direct bias or more silent acquiescence. When wars end, therefore, the question arises as to the media's past role and the possibilities of reconstructing the media in such a way that it contributes to conflict transformation. This article looks at one specific situation, Northern Ireland, where during the violent political conflict over three decades the…
Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants
This article surveys the literature on the global experience of demobilization and reintegration of combatants after wars end. It examines the factors that contribute to successful programmes. Among these, the two most frequently emphasized are the political will of all concerned to ensure the programmes work, and the active participation of ex-combatants in their own programmes of reintegration. The article then examines the situation in Ireland…
“The Brothers on the Walls”
The article considers in detail a particular aspect of the political murals painted by the republican movement in Northern Ireland, namely their references to international themes rather than solely Irish matters. These murals are seen as an instance of solidarity with people in struggle elsewhere—against imperialism and state oppression—and thus represent recognition by Irish mural painters of their affinity to liberation movements elsewhere. As…
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