Engaging in Postconflict Violence

Militant Trajectories of Young Republican Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2365756
AutoresHadrien Holstein (0009-0000-6895-6840, Paris Nanterre University, Nanterre, France, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume53
Fascículo6
Páginas853-880
Data de publicação2024-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/08912416241275187
OpenAlexW4402148349
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas56

This article is based on an ethnographic study of young activists in Irish republican paramilitary organizations opposed to the Good Friday Agreement. It focuses on analyzing these youth's trajectories as militants in order to understand the process of generational renewal within armed organizations as conflicts come to an end. The specificity of their trajectories is captured through a comparison with nonviolent young republican activists. This approach shows that, despite their different party affiliations, young postwar republican activists share the same sociological profiles, motivations for engagement and daily militant practices. In other words, the article highlights that although republican paramilitary networks claim to be violent actors, they have adopted nonviolent practices as a mode of ordinary and routine action. As a result, these networks are subject to a relative pacification that is explained more by their recruitment methods and the participation of new young militants than by any gradual support for the peace agreement

Criminology · Ethnology · Militant · Northern ireland · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Peacebuilding and International Security