Potemkin Village

Neo-liberalism and Peace-building in Northern Ireland

Bibliographic Data

ID8094416
AuthorsJ Nagle (0000-0001-8836-9942, University of Ulster, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume8
Issue2
Pages173-190
Publication date2009-04-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-9057 • E-ISSN: 1744-9065
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449050802593275
OpenAlexW1993435500
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited22

This paper examines whether neo-liberalism is becoming hegemonic in Northern Ireland. It analyses the regional government's nascent commitment to free-market solutions (public–private partnerships and neo-urbanism) to ameliorate decades of social inequality and civil conflict and to contribute towards social reconstruction. Noting the hybrid and contradictory aspects of neo-liberalism, it is argued that rather than being evidence of a complete ‘roll out’ of neo-liberalism in Northern Ireland, it rests uneasily with an economy fettered by its reliance on the public sector as well as forms of segregation that duplicate public services. Although some commentators argue that neo-liberalism is rupturing the hitherto tight link between the nation-state and citizenship to weaken the basis upon which national identities rest, the paper notes the discrepant ethnonational views of neo-liberalism as well as conflicts over urban regeneration. The paper also investigates whether processes of urban regeneration act as a ‘mask’ to cover the intensification of poverty, segregation and exclusion that affect working-class urban districts

Citizenship · Economic liberalism · Ethnology · Government (linguistics · Hegemony · Liberalism · Northern ireland · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Sociology · State (computer science · Irish and British Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance

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