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Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland

Women, Political Protest and the Prison Experience

Azrini Wahidin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

253 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
9781137363299 (ISBN)

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This book explores the contours of women's involvement in the Irish Republican Army, political protest and the prison experience in Northern Ireland. Through the voices of female and male combatants, it demonstrates that women remained marginal in the examination of imprisonment during the Conflict and in the negotiated peace process. However, the book shows that women performed a number of roles in war and peace that placed constructions of femininity in dissent.
Azrini Wahidin argues that the role of the female combatant is not given but ambiguous. She indicates that a tension exists between different conceptualisations of societal security, where female combatants both fought against societal insecurity posed by the state and contributed to internal societal dissonance within their ethno-national groups. This book tackles the lacunae that has created a disturbing silence and an absence of a comprehensive understanding of women combatants, which includes knowledge of their motivations, roles and experiences. It will be of particular interest to scholars of criminology, politics and peace studies.

Azrini Wahidin is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is on the Executive Committee of the British Society of Criminology and is Chair of the Professional Affairs and Ethics Committee. She has held visiting posts at Melbourne University, University of Sydney, Middle Tennessee State University and the University of Malaya.

Chapter 1. Women, War and Peace.- Chapter 2. An Cogadh Fada: The Legacy of Conflict in Northern Ireland.- Chapter 3. The Role of the Accidental Activist.- Chapter 4. From Footnote Soldiers to Frontline Soldiers.- Chapter 5. An Scéal o Príosún Ard Mhacha: Armagh Prison.- Chapter 6. Nor Meekly Serve My Time: 'A' Company Armagh.- Chapter 7. Parthas Caillte: The Politics of Resistance and the Role of the Gendered Incarcerated Body.- Chapter 8. Scéal Phríosún Ard Mhacha: The History of Strip Searching in Armagh.- Chapter 9. 'There is No Glory in Any War'. Conclusion. Compromise After Conflict: Making Peace with the Past.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.04.2016
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 253 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	Armagh • criminal justice system • Criminology • Cumann na mBan • Demobilisation • Disarmament • ethnography • Gender • Good Friday Agreement • Irish Republican Army • Peace Building • Political prisoner • Political protest • post-conflict • Reconciliation • Sinn Féin • Social Reconstruction • terrorism • Transitional Justice • Women
ISBN-13	9781137363299 / 9781137363299
Zustand	Neuware