Identity, Ideology and Conflict: The Structuration of Politics in Northern Ireland

By John Daniel Cash and Cash John Daniel

Book Overview

Ideologies and identities are central to politics, but usually this centrality is obscured. This book focuses on what it terms the politics of identity. Drawing on both social theory and psychological theory, it develops a novel approach that highlights the unconscious rules that are drawn on, and fought over, by political actors and citizens as they construct their identities, and relationships with others. Unionism in Northern Ireland, past and present, is analyzed in detail to illustrate the strengths of this new approach.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521134161
• ISBN13: 9780521134163
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"