Religion, Civil Society, and Peace in Northern Ireland

Brewer, John D.; Higgins, Gareth I.; Teeney, Francis

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“…Moreover, these alliances are not necessarily particularist or essentially local but can connect to global issues including immigration, climate change and ideas about citizenship (Ballie-Smith et al, 2013). The ideological and institutional heritage of the main churches in Northern Ireland has been important in incubating social enterprises, cooperatives and credit unions and whilst many projects have secularized, they often remain loosely connected to an incidental set of specifically Christian values and ethics (Brewer et al, 2011).…”

Section: The Scope For Alternative Economicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community asset transfer and strategies of local accumulation

Murtagh

Boland

2017

Social & Cultural Geography

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Community asset transfer enables local groups to own or manage a government owned facility and related services. For critics, it is merely an extension of rollback neoliberalism, permitting the state to withdraw from welfare and transfer risk from local government to ill-defined communities. The paper uses quantitative and case study data from Northern Ireland to demonstrate its transformative potential by challenging the notion of private property rights, enabling communities to accumulate and creating local consumption circuits. It suggests that asset-led social enterprises are entangled in a mix of pro-market and alternative economic strategies which are necessarily traded off each other in the reproduction of social value. There is not an ethically pure form of asset transfer but the tactical adaptation of different modes of working, including the enhancement of state services as well as more independent forms of economic and social organisation. However, the analysis points to the political weaknesses of three specific projects and in particular, the lack of corporate working that has limited their reformist potential. The paper concludes by highlighting the implications for more progressive forms of social economics and the skills, finance and practices that facilitate local accumulation strategies.

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Section: The Scope For Alternative Economicsmentioning

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Community asset transfer and strategies of local accumulation

Murtagh

Boland

2017

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…Scholars in the tradition of conflict resolution commonly view the role of religious leaders in terms of third-party interventions and mediation (Bercovitch and Rubin 2002;Berridge 2002;Bercovitch and Kadayifci-Orellana 2009;Brewer et al 2014). In the literature on northern Nigeria, this approach is most clearly represented by the works on faith-based, non-governmental organisations and their mediation and reconciliation activities (Smock 2006;Haynes 2009).…”

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Janus’ Voice: Religious Leaders, Framing, and Riots in Kano

Ehrhardt

2016

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This article analyses the role of religious leaders in collective violence in Kano, the major urban centre in northern Nigeria. It compares two episodes of collective action in the city-the violent 'Plateau riots' in 2004 and the non-violent 'cartoon protests' in 2006-to explore the role of religious leaders in the variation in violence between the two events. The core argument is that the ways in which Islamic and Christian preachers framed the triggering events for these cases facilitated different forms of mobilisation and enemy identification in response. In 2004, the interpretation of violence in Plateau State through the 'Christiansversus-Muslims' frame allowed for mobilisation within Kano's Christian and Muslim communities as well as for the identification of local Christians as enemies. In 2006, in contrast, the infamous Danish cartoons were actively framed as part of the global struggle between faithful Nigerians and nonreligious Westerners, facilitating non-violent mobilisation across Christian-Muslim boundaries. Thus, the divergent discursive strategies employed by religious leaders are likely to have contributed to violent escalation in 2004 and to peaceful mobilisation in 2006. At the same time, however, the article emphasises the interaction of discursive framing with other factors, such as the role of security forces and the inextricable connections between religious and political authorities in Kano. The article is based on mixed-methods data collected in Kano between 2006 and 2012, including perceptions survey data, semi-structured interviews, and newspaper articles.

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“…A huge vol ume of academic publications have emerged out of the 'Troubles'. For example, John Brewer, President of the British Sociological Association from 2009 to 2012, who has held posts in QUB twice during his long and distinguished career, published extensively on the Northern Ireland conflict and the subsequent peace process (Brewer 2010;Brewer, Teeney and Higgins 2011). It is worthwhile pointing out in this context that writings on the North's ethno-national conflict have proved attractive not just to social scientists in Northern and Southern Ireland but to an international audience, perhaps more so than any other Irish topic.…”

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Sociology in Ireland: Legacies and Challenges

Fanning

Heß

2015

Irish Journal of Sociology

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Looking at the history of sociology in modem Ireland we can observe a constant oscillation between continuity and rupture. However, we are somewhat reluctant to interpret this as a kind of Irish Sonderweg or Irish exceptionalism. What re mains noticeable though is a relatively late willingness to connect to the outside world -culturally and intellectually. This is partly explained by several decades of Catholic institutional dominance. The challenges since late secularisation of the field occurred in the 1970s have included epistemological dominance of the rather narrow posivitist type. Within this context university-based sociologists and sociologies have often been perceived as self-marginalised figures and para digms. As we approach the new millennium the situation of sociology as a disci pline is less precarious compared to earlier times. However, new institutional challenges, such as the metrics increasingly used to evaluate scholarship, have called more traditional notions of the discipline into question.

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Religion, Civil Society, and Peace in Northern Ireland

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Community asset transfer and strategies of local accumulation

Community asset transfer and strategies of local accumulation

Janus’ Voice: Religious Leaders, Framing, and Riots in Kano

Sociology in Ireland: Legacies and Challenges

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