{"product_id":"afterlives-of-the-troubles-life-stories-culture-and-conflict-transformation-in-northern-ireland-9781526146496","title":"Afterlives of the Troubles: Life Stories, Culture and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland","description":"Focusing on experiential life stories across a range of forms and practices, this book investigates subjectivity, culture and the cultural politics of representation as a neglected dimension of conflict transformation in the Northern Irish peace process. Interdisciplinary critical perspectives from historical cultural studies, oral history and popular-memory theory inform close interpretive engagement with life stories in their cultural, historical and geographical contexts. This enables exploration of the complex temporal dynamics of 'post-conflict' subjectivities in the lengthening 'afterlife' of the Troubles, where feelings attached to conflict experiences are not 'past' but haunt the present, and memory-work carries future-oriented desires for truth, justice and reconciliation. Through case studies responding to the evolving peace process through this prism of life-storytelling, Afterlives maps a contested history of legacy policy-making and approaches to 'dealing with the past', from devolution in 2005-7 through to the Legacy and Reconciliation Act of 2023.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraham Dawson is Visiting Professor in INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute) at Ulster\u003cbr\u003eUniversity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52103905771794,"sku":"9781526146496","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b89fc567-9103-4330-8447-04fad2bdd5f8.jpg?v=1773160931","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/afterlives-of-the-troubles-life-stories-culture-and-conflict-transformation-in-northern-ireland-9781526146496","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}