Ethnic Dignity and the Ulster-Scots Movement in Northern Ireland

Gardner, Peter

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“…Yet any definition of loyalism must also come with an acknowledgement that it is in a state of decline both numerically, in terms of loyalists' physical population, and in terms of its political power. 30 Loyalism is fixated on the past and is marked by an 'ontological insecurity' fuelled by 'economic decline, social deprivation, educational underachievement and everyday, albeit, often low-level sectarianized conflict', 31 which is exacerbated by ongoing shifts in Northern Ireland's demographics.…”

Section: Loyalism and Loyalist Songsmentioning

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Let us entertain you: paramilitary songs and the politics of loyalist cultural production in Northern Ireland

Millar¹

2022

Race & Class

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From the Shankill Defence Association’s Orange-Loyalist Songbook to the UDA’s appropriation of ‘Simply the Best’, music has long been used to celebrate loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. During the Troubles, loyalist songs served a variety of functions, from community fundraising and entertainment to the transmission of loyalist cultural memory and the articulation of political perspectives ignored by the mainstream media. Yet, in addition to celebrating local practices and political traditions, loyalist songs now feed into a broader ‘culture war’ in Northern Ireland where, in the absence of intercommunal violence, the commemoration of paramilitary groups is used to continue the conflict by other means. This article traces the origins of contemporary loyalism’s culture war against Irish republicans, unravelling the role loyalist songs played during the Troubles and their ongoing legacy.

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Section: Loyalism and Loyalist Songsmentioning

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Let us entertain you: paramilitary songs and the politics of loyalist cultural production in Northern Ireland

Millar¹

2022

Race & Class

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“…It promises to impact on most–if not all–social fields, including forming a new basis for politics. In Northern Ireland, one example was the new ethnicization as “Ulster Scots”, although on Gardner's (2020) analysis it functioned to restore legacies rather than liberating from them.…”

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How moderates make boundaries after protracted conflict. Everyday universalists, agonists, transformists and cosmopolitans in contemporary Northern Ireland

Todd

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Dornschneider‐Elkink

2022

British Journal of Sociology

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This article explores how boundary making proceeds after protracted conflict has ended. Drawing on an interview and focus group study in two local areas in Northern Ireland, we identify the diverse forms of everyday boundary work amongst moderates who distance from the ethno-political blocs: everyday universalism, agonism, transformation and cosmopolitanism. Each overcomes closed exclusivist boundaries and identity oppositions, thus providing a clear contrast with the overt political contention and polarization that has followed Brexit in Northern Ireland. Our research shows the internal shape and diversity of the moderate constituency who support peace-building and a less-polarized politics. It also offers an answer to the question how such everyday openness coexists with continued political polarization. We trace the different political perspectives associated with each form of boundary making and argue that this hinders political cohesion amongst moderates.

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“…This is an attractive strategy for both nationalists and unionists, loyalists and republicans. While defiance may have been combined with demands for recognition of dominance in the pastreflecting Unionist dominance within Northern Ireland but also their the minority status on the island and within the UKit has arguably become the primary form of unionist recognition politics with the loss of their dominant position within Northern Ireland (Gardner, 2020;Halliday & Ferguson, 2016, p. 536;Hearty, 2015, p. 158;McAuley, 2010, pp. 142-3;Shirlow, 2003).…”

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Recognition politics in Northern Ireland: from cultural recognition to recognition struggle

McBride

2021

Irish Political Studies

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The idea of recognition is often taken to support the notion of 'pluralist accommodation' between nationalists and unionists. This relies on a distinctive 'cultural' model of recognition as requiring identity affirmation as essential to conflict resolution. It is argued that the cultural model relies on a weak analysis of social recognition and is, consequently, a poor guide to understanding the politics of recognition in Northern Ireland. Firstly, it does not give sufficient weight to struggles for equal recognition. Secondly, the vague notion of 'affirming' identities does not capture the way recognition struggles arise over social positioning in wider status hierarchies. An alternative, 'recognition struggle' account is developed which focuses on conflicts over authority and which explains why recognition politics in Northern Ireland often centers on defying the other. Finally, the cultural model fails to see that cultural groups are themselves the product of internal struggles for recognition and wrongly assumes the politics of recognition must resist attempts to transform group identities. Taking recognition seriously requires us to move beyond 'cultural recognition' and 'pluralist accommodation' in Northern Ireland.

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Ethnic Dignity and the Ulster-Scots Movement in Northern Ireland

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Let us entertain you: paramilitary songs and the politics of loyalist cultural production in Northern Ireland

Let us entertain you: paramilitary songs and the politics of loyalist cultural production in Northern Ireland

How moderates make boundaries after protracted conflict. Everyday universalists, agonists, transformists and cosmopolitans in contemporary Northern Ireland

Recognition politics in Northern Ireland: from cultural recognition to recognition struggle

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