Return to Titanic and lost in the maze
The search for representation of 'post-conflict' Belfast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5822005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William J V Neill (Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 109-120 |
| Publication date | 2006-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Space and Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-2576 • E-ISSN: 1470-1235 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13562570600921477 |
| OpenAlex | W2007403176 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 8 |
Urban planning and development have long been at the forefront of official efforts in Belfast to project an image of the possibility and incipient reality of a more normal city and society. This article revisits the continuing difficulties associated with government supported attempts to reimage and represent through development what has now been called the 'post-conflict' city. The argument is made that competing symbolic cultural endowments of space, which construct 'Belfast' in spatial imagination, still leave scant non-controversial representational resources for official place promotion. The use of the legacy of the Belfast built Titanic to fill this vacuum by branding 'post-conflict' space is explored and the conclusion reached that this is too heavy a cargo for a ship already doomed-once. Meanwhile, on what is arguably the major representational battlefield of cultures in Northern Ireland-the Maze Prison on Belfast's doorstep-the true face of the post-conflict city is on public view. This gorilla as yet awaits an extreme make-over
Argument (complex analysis · Face (sociological concept · Government (linguistics · Northern ireland · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess · Public space · Representation · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Engineering · Irish and British Studies · Urban Planning and Governance · Law
Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition
Titanic Struggle
The New Northern Ireland as a Crime Scene
All aboard Belfast’s ‘brandwagon’
“My First Victim Was a Hurling Player . . . ”
Seeing and knowing Titanic Belfast using augmented reality
Beyond the Balm of Communicative Planning
Canine Connections
Our Journey, Our Narrative’
Trying to reach the future through the past’
Tribeca Belfast and the on-screen regeneration of Northern Ireland
Negotiating a local gaze
Gazed and subdued? Spectacle, spatial order and identity in the contested city
Beyond Derry or Londonderry
Post-conflict Belfast
Spacing commemorative-related violence in Northern Ireland
Cultural policy as conflict transformation? Problematising the peacebuilding potential of cultural policy in Derry-Londonderry – UK City of Culture 2013
B(u)ypassing conflict
From Titanic to Game of Thrones
Transitional optics
Desegregation and Place Restructuring in the New Belfast
Post-conflict Curating”
Sites of Social Centrality and Segregation
Devolution and the Politics of Development in Northern Ireland
A Pleasingly Blank Canvas
The Debasing of Myth
Redrawing cognitive maps of conflict
Decision-making and Contested Heritage in Northern Ireland
Geographies of Conflict and Post-Conflict in Northern Ireland
Journeys through the Hidden City
I stick to this side of the park
Side-by-Sidedness
Creating liminal spaces of collective possibility in divided societies
Titanic
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |