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Shared Society or Benign Apartheid?

Understanding Peace-Building in Divided Societies

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Introduction

    • John Nagle, Mary-Alice C. Clancy
    Pages 1-9
  3. Nostrums and Palliatives: Exploring a Shared Society

    • John Nagle, Mary-Alice C. Clancy
    Pages 10-42
  4. Consociational Power Sharing: Conflict Regulation or Exacerbation?

    • John Nagle, Mary-Alice C. Clancy
    Pages 43-72
  5. ‘Our City Also’: Sharing Civic Space

    • John Nagle, Mary-Alice C. Clancy
    Pages 73-100
  6. Unity through Diversity: A Shared Civil Society

    • John Nagle, Mary-Alice C. Clancy
    Pages 101-127
  7. Shared Rituals and Symbols

    • John Nagle, Mary-Alice C. Clancy
    Pages 128-153
  8. Between Trauma and Melancholia: Shared Forms of Commemoration

    • John Nagle, Mary-Alice C. Clancy
    Pages 154-183
  9. Neoliberalism and Shared Consumers

    • John Nagle, Mary-Alice C. Clancy
    Pages 184-211
  10. Conclusion: The Narcissism of Minor Differences?

    • John Nagle, Mary-Alice C. Clancy
    Pages 212-219
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 220-247

About this book

This book analyses the role power sharing, social movements, economic regeneration, urban space, memorialisation and symbols play in transforming divided societies into shared peaceful ones. It explains why some projects are counterproductive while others assist peace-building.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, University of Exeter, UK

    John Nagle, Mary-Alice C. Clancy

About the authors

JOHN NAGLE is Visiting Research Fellow at EXCEPS at the University of Exeter, UK. He has previously held research positions at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast, UK, and at INCORE, the University of Ulster, UK. His previous publications include Multiculturalism's Double Bind.
 
MARY ALICE C. CLANCY is Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. Her 2007 article examining the Bush administration's role in Northern Ireland has been featured in several newspapers and on the BBC.

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