Segregated Lives: Social Division, Sectarianism and Everyday Life in Northern Ireland
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Segregated Lives: Social Division, Sectarianism and Everyday Life in
Northern Ireland
Neil Jarman
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Rationale• To analyse the ways and means that
sectarianism and segregation are sustained and extended through the routine and mundane decisions of everyday lives.
• Pierre Bourdieu – We live as social beings in a world of “structured structures predisposed to function as structuring structures”.
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Background
• 18 month qualitative study.• Funded by CRC through SEUPB.• 168 participants in six different locations
across Northern Ireland.• Variety of methodologies – interviews,
walks, diaries, mapping
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Locations
• Belfast – Tigers Bay / New Lodge • Belfast – Stranmillis• Newry – Shandon Park • Ballymena – Dunclug • Castlederg / Newtownstewart • Kilrea
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Legacy and Class
1. Segregation a continuing legacy of Troubles
2. Impacts differently on different people3. Impact of class on segregation 4. Importance of visibility and anonymity
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Economic Aspects
5. Nature of segregation is changing6. Economic regeneration has positive
and negative impacts7. More neutral / shared spaces 8. But co-exist with high segregation9. Shopping increasingly neutral
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Daily Routines
9. Work: neutrality and avoidance10.Education: segregation & informal
integration 11.Resources: access related to time of
day and of year12.Leisure: people socialise where they
feel safe
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Key Findings
13.Asserting community ID threatens cohesion
14.Denying community ID threatens belonging
15.Segregation impacts more on young than old and most on young men