Overview
- Utilises ethnicity as a conduit for attempts to regain a sense of dignity in the post-conflict identity landscape
- Regains a sense of collective dignity through reframings and (en)counterings with the ethnopolitical, class-based, political-economic, diasporic, postcolonial, and historical-domination aspects of peoplehood
- Builds upon the work of Rogers Brubaker, Rogers Smith, and Loïc Wacquant
Part of the book series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series (CAL)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
In this book, Peter Gardner contends that the production of narratives of ethnic peoplehood is an attempt to regain a sense of collective dignity among the previously dominant.
After introducing the concept of ethnic dignity and locating its place within postconflict identity politics, Gardner focuses his analysis on the Ulster- Scots story of peoplehood. Drawing on a wealth of primary data, the chapters explore a variety of core issues including ethnopolitics, social class, political-economic ideology, colonialism, and heteromasculinity.
The book concludes by taking a global view of post-conflict ethnic dignity among the once dominant, analysing the New Afrikaans movement in South Africa, white pride and ethnic whiteness studies, and Maronite Phoenicianism in Lebanon.
This will be an important contribution for students and scholars of ethnicity,
divided societies and, more broadly, political sociology.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Peter Gardner is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethnic Dignity and the Ulster-Scots Movement in Northern Ireland
Book Subtitle: Supremacy in Peril
Authors: Peter Gardner
Series Title: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34859-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34858-8Published: 02 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34861-8Published: 02 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34859-5Published: 11 December 2019
Series ISSN: 2947-6100
Series E-ISSN: 2947-6119
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 240
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethnicity Studies, Political Sociology, Conflict Studies, Self and Identity