Negotiating Intercommunity and Community Group Identity Positions

Summary Discourses from Two Northern Ireland Intercommunity Groups

Bibliographic Data

ID8113359
AuthorsMary Jane Collier (corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume2
Issue3
Pages285-306
Publication date2009-07-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNegotiation and Conflict Management Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1750-4708 • E-ISSN: 1750-4716
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1750-4716.2009.00041.x
OpenAlexW2068870758
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited1

This study applies a critical/interpretive framework to analyze discourses from two public documents compiled in 2002 from two intercommunity groups in West Belfast in Northern Ireland. Discourses are taken from participants’ comments, recounted experiences, and descriptions of their intercommunity relationships and actions produced to share with wider audiences in Northern Ireland. Analysis of selected discourse demonstrates: (a) how intercommunity group identities are negotiated simultaneously with community group identities, gendered, generational, and class privilege positions; (b) how speakers’ comments position their own groups in relationship to institutional representatives such as religious leaders, politicians, and security personnel; (c) how levels of agency and resistance are contextually negotiated; and (d) the importance of dialectic tensions and contradictions of being a member of an intercommunity group as well as a separate community in West Belfast. Implications of this framework for conflict researchers and practitioners are also addressed

Agency (philosophy · Collective identity · Dialectic · Ethnology · Identity (music · Negotiation · Northern ireland · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing · Social science · Sociology · Irish and British Studies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Gender Studies · Law · Social Psychology

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