Northern Ireland 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement: an introduction to the special issue

Coulter, Colin and Shirlow, Peter ORCID: 0000-0002-7483-9859 (2023) Northern Ireland 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement: an introduction to the special issue. SPACE AND POLITY, 27 (1). pp. 1-16.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2023.2248009

Abstract

In this introduction, we set up a theme that runs through the special issue. There are, we suggest, two dominant readings of the Northern Irish peace process–one ‘liberal,’ the other ‘nationalist’–that see the region in the process of becoming a multicultural (neo)liberal democracy, albeit in different constitutional settings. The teleogical nature of these perspectives means, however, that they fail to grasp what is perhaps the most essential characteristic of contemporary Northern Irish society, namely its liminality. If we are to understand the true nature of post-conflict Northern Ireland, it is imperative, we contest, to grasp its quintessential ‘inbetweenness.’.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	>, Good Friday agreement, liminality, Northern Ireland, peace process
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	19 Sep 2023 10:18
Last Modified:	08 Jan 2024 12:00
DOI:	10.1080/13562576.2023.2248009
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3172887