Speaking of Contested Sites: Narrative and Praxis of Spatial Competition in Belfast, Northern Ireland

Karen Lysaght

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Speaking of Contested Sites: Narrative and Praxis of Spatial Competition in Belfast, Northern Ireland

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Pages:: 151â172

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401200653_011

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The debates and disagreements which have characterized the Northern Irish âpeace processâ have often been dramatized in violent form at those boundary zones where Roman Catholic and Protestant populations meet. In fact, the physical and symbolic contestation of space in Northern Ireland tends more often to be of micro-boundaries which border urban residential communities of differing religious/national/ethnic identification than of the contested rural border which separates Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland. As a result, these divisions represent important prisms through which to view the conflict more generally. By exploring both praxis and narrative on a single unstable boundary between two working-class residential communities, one Catholic and one Protestant, this paper shall illuminate the spatial anchoring of the dominant group myth into the local landscape by both Loyalists and Nationalists in their relationship to local contested sites. In order to illuminate these dominant cultural values the paper shall adopt an approach which utilizes an historical perspective on the development of a segregated landscape, together with a strong descriptive emphasis on the exact nature of the contested sites and their usage, while drawing on a multilocal/multivocal approach to narrative.

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Violence: âMercurial Gestaltâ

Series:Â At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Volume: 47

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401200653

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2008

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