Territoriality and Order in the North of Ireland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6074893 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Niall Ó Dochartaigh (0000-0002-0539-7727, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 313-328 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Irish Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0790-7184 • E-ISSN: 1743-9078 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07907184.2011.593736 |
| OpenAlex | W1994920710 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 21 |
This article draws on the recent academic literature on territoriality and power to analyse territorial strategies for the maintenance of public order in the north of Ireland. It argues that these strategies were shaped decisively by the distinctive relationship between the informal internal ethnonational boundaries that were a central focus of Frank Wright's work and the external boundary of the Northern Ireland state. As a consequence, the ‘internal’ issue of policing was immediately and inextricably bound up with the outer boundary of the state, even at the level of everyday policing practices. It traces the way in which the state in Northern Ireland adopted particular territorial strategies to secure the external border and adapt to internal territorial unevenness from the outset. It argues that order was necessarily maintained through a limited recognition of the distinctive ethnonational character of particular areas within the state, and by distinctive territorial strategies for the maintenance of order in such areas. Internal unevenness in sovereign control strictly limited the possibilities for internal territorial homogenisation and hindered the related naturalisation of the external boundary and the state itself
Boundary-work · Economics · Ethnology · Northern ireland · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · Territoriality · Wright · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Policing Practices and Perceptions
Policing Space
Mastering Space
Territory
Territories, boundaries, and consciousness
Human territoriality
Policing and Conflict in Northern Ireland
Mastering Space
Cobbles And Confetti
The Nation-State and Violence
From the political economy of regions to regional political economy
Boundaries as Social Practice and Discourse
Human Territoriality
From Civil Rights to Armalites
Party versus order
The most terrible assassination that has yet stained the name of Belfast
Policing under fire
Out of the 'moribund backwater
The territorial trap
Boundaries as social processes
The autonomous power of the state
The Nation-State and Violence
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |