Identity, Ideology and Conflict: The Structuration of Politics in Northern Ireland

by John Daniel Cash

Overview

Ideologies and identities are central to politics, but usually this centrality is obscured. This book focuses on what it terms "the politics of identity." Drawing on both social theory and psychological theory, it develops a novel approach that highlights the unconscious rules that are drawn on, and fought over, by political actors and citizens as they construct their identities, and relationships with others. Unionism in Northern Ireland, past and present, is analyzed in detail to illustrate the strengths of this new approach.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521550529
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/22/1996
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Part I. Theory with an Empirical Intent: Theories of Ideology, Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity: 1. Competing paradigms in the study of intergroup relations; 2. Conceptualising ideology; 3. The structuration of ideology; 4. Ideology and affect; 5. Ideology and reasoning; Part II. The Analysis of an Ideology in Crisis: 6. Towards a depth-hermeneutics of Unionist ideology; 7. Crisis and the structuration of Unionist ideology, 1962–1969; 8. Crisis and the structuration of Unionist ideology, 1969–1975; Conclusion: The framework document and its discontents; Select bibliography; Index.

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"Cash makes an important contribution to the study of politics in Northern Ireland....provocative and interesting..." Choice

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