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Ethnic Dignity and the Ulster-Scots Movement in Northern Ireland

Supremacy in Peril

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Utilises ethnicity as a conduit for attempts to regain a sense of dignity in the post-conflict identity landscape
  • Regains a sense of collective dignity through reframings and (en)counterings with the ethnopolitical, class-based, political-economic, diasporic, postcolonial, and historical-domination aspects of peoplehood
  • Builds upon the work of Rogers Brubaker, Rogers Smith, and Loïc Wacquant

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Reclamations of the Once Dominant

    • Peter Gardner
    Pages 1-35
  3. Ethnicity, Narrative, Power

    • Peter Gardner
    Pages 37-64
  4. Loyal, Not Loyalist

    • Peter Gardner
    Pages 65-104
  5. Presbyterian Minoritisation

    • Peter Gardner
    Pages 105-118
  6. Ethnic Dignity as Respectability Politics

    • Peter Gardner
    Pages 119-143
  7. Muscular Ethnicity and Masculine Dignity

    • Peter Gardner
    Pages 177-192
  8. Ethnic Dignity in Global Context

    • Peter Gardner
    Pages 193-214
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 215-240

About this book

In this book, Peter Gardner contends that the production of narratives of ethnic peoplehood is an attempt to regain a sense of collective dignity among the previously dominant.

 

After introducing the concept of ethnic dignity and locating its place within postconflict identity politics, Gardner focuses his analysis on the Ulster- Scots story of peoplehood. Drawing on a wealth of primary data, the chapters explore a variety of core issues including ethnopolitics, social class, political-economic ideology, colonialism, and heteromasculinity.

 

The book concludes by taking a global view of post-conflict ethnic dignity among the once dominant, analysing the New Afrikaans movement in South Africa, white pride and ethnic whiteness studies, and Maronite Phoenicianism in Lebanon.

 

This will be an important contribution for students and scholars of ethnicity,

divided societies and, more broadly, political sociology.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of York, York, UK

    Peter Gardner

About the author

Peter Gardner is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ethnic Dignity and the Ulster-Scots Movement in Northern Ireland

  • Book Subtitle: Supremacy in Peril

  • Authors: Peter Gardner

  • Series Title: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34859-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34858-8Published: 02 January 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34861-8Published: 02 January 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34859-5Published: 11 December 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2947-6100

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-6119

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 240

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Ethnicity Studies, Political Sociology, Conflict Studies, Self and Identity

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Softcover Book USD 79.99
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