The End of Ulster Loyalism?

Shirlow, Peter

Manchester University Press（2012/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780719084768
• DDC分類 320.9416

Full Description

The end of Ulster loyalism? explores the dynamics and divisions within paramilitary groups since the mid-1970s. It, despite contrary public opinion, details and explains the nature of Loyalist conflict transformation. A key model of transition that is relevant to arenas beyond Northern Ireland. The book also discusses the nature and extent of loyalist violence and provides a rarely heard voice regarding State-led collusion. It locates Loyalist ideas and opinions that have been largely invisible and highlights how an extensive element of positive Loyalist renewal has been purposefully suppressed and unmentioned. It is a key text for any student of politics, criminology, human geography and conflict and conflict transformation and is particularly relevant to the scholarship of pro-State groups who are infrequently considered in academic deliberations. A book of both hope and despair that emerges from a destabilising past and a yet-to-be-decided future.

Contents

Introduction
1. The extent and nature of loyalist violence
2. Collusion: Myth, reality and complete ignorance
3. Idea building and the beginning of loyalist transformation
4. A mad dog and a regal rodent: Interpreting the wreckers and spoilers
5. Loyalist conflict transformation: Beyond idiocy
6. Beyond enclosure: Reimaging and the challenge to 'self'
7. The problem with loyalists or loyalist's problems?
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index