Identity, Ideology and Conflict
Identity, Ideology and Conflict
The Structuration of Politics in Northern Ireland
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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.
- Fresh theory of ideology explaining how identities of people and groups lead to embedded conflict
- Original analysis drawing on both sociology and psychology, and in particular psychoanalysis
- Theory is illustrated by a topical case study of the ideology of the Unionists in Northern Ireland
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Product details
August 1996Hardback
9780521550529
242 pages
236 × 160 × 20 mm
0.487kg
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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.
