Northern Ireland and the limits of the race relations framework

Gilligan, Chris

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“…A divided city's political and institutional focus on ethnicity can also imply that this is the sole source of social division and difference. In Belfast, other divisions are also welldocumented, such as increasing discrimination towards the city's growing immigrant population (Doebler et al 2018;Gilligan 2019). As explained above, Breaking Barriers has an overarching mission to promote positive multicultural relations through music and other arts, aiming to work across and disrupt multiple sociocultural and political divides.…”

Section: Navigating Relationships Between People and Identitymentioning

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Making music in divided cities: Transforming the ethnoscape

Howell

Pruitt

Hassler³

2019

International Journal of Community Music

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In the phenomenon of the divided city – urban environments partitioned along ethno-religious lines as a result of war or conflict – projects seeking to bring segregated people together through community music activities face many operational and psychological obstacles. Divided cities are politically sustained, institutionally consolidated, and relentlessly territorialized by competing ethno-nationalist actors. They are highly resistant to peacebuilding efforts at the state level. This article uses an urban peacebuilding lens (peacebuilding reconceptualized at the urban scale that encompasses the spatial and social dimensions of ethno-nationalist division) to examine the work of community music projects in three divided cities. Through the examples of the Pavarotti Music Centre in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Mitrovica Rock School in Mitrovica, Kosovo, and Breaking Barriers (a pseudonym) in Belfast, Northern Ireland, we consider the context-specific practices and discourses that are deployed to navigate the local constraints on inter-communal cooperation, but that also contribute to the broader goal of building peace. We find that music-making is a promising strategy of peacebuilding at the urban scale, with both functional and symbolic contributions to make to the task of transforming an ethnoscape into a peacescape.

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Section: Navigating Relationships Between People and Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Making music in divided cities: Transforming the ethnoscape

Howell

Pruitt

Hassler³

2019

International Journal of Community Music

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Breaking the ‘culture of silence’: exploring therapist perspectives of culturally sensitive systemic psychotherapy in contested sociopolitical contexts – a Northern Ireland case study

Young,

Mooney

2024

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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Recent national and international events have shone a spotlight on structural inequalities and institutionalised racism, igniting a contemporary struggle for equality and evoking the UK systemic community to affirm its commitment to social justice and anti‐racism. This article sets the scene by examining how systemic theory and research have historically addressed racial inequality and cross‐cultural practice, before describing a small but pioneering qualitative study which explored the practice of cultural sensitivity via in‐depth interviews with five experienced systemic psychotherapists in Northern Ireland (NI). While confirming some similarities with other UK regions, tentative but important nuanced differences emerged in the NI context given its protracted history of sectarian division, political conflict, and more limited immigration. Self‐imposed ‘silence’ with regard to one's own religious/cultural identity in the context of the NI political conflict emerged as a key theme, alongside therapist under‐explored Whiteness; theoretical paradoxes influencing therapist reticence; and perceived therapeutic benefits of exploring cultural differences and lived experience of racism. Study limitations and implications are discussed, identifying the need for further research and renewed efforts (in theory, training, and practice) to assist therapists to break the ‘culture of silence’ in their local sociopolitical context and address wider social inequities.

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Beyond exception: the Irish border and the limits of cosmopolitan nationalism

Cunningham

2022

Territory, Politics, Governance

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Northern Ireland and the limits of the race relations framework

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

Making music in divided cities: Transforming the ethnoscape

Making music in divided cities: Transforming the ethnoscape

Breaking the ‘culture of silence’: exploring therapist perspectives of culturally sensitive systemic psychotherapy in contested sociopolitical contexts – a Northern Ireland case study

Beyond exception: the Irish border and the limits of cosmopolitan nationalism

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