The Legacies of the Dead: Commemorating the Troubles in Northern Ireland
The Legacies of the Dead: Commemorating the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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死者的遗产：纪念北爱尔兰的麻烦
DOI：
10.1068/d70j
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发表时间：
2007
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通讯作者：
Yvonne Whelan
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作者：
B. Graham;Yvonne Whelan
1998年的《贝尔法斯特协定》启动了所谓的北方爱尔兰和平进程，其目的是避免建立处理过去遗留问题的机制，尤其是纪念1969年开始的动乱造成的死亡。在本文中，我们将探讨，首先，在不同意的社会，如北方爱尔兰，共识似乎是一个不太可能的命题，过去和纪念活动的做法的作用，重点是包容和排斥和有争议的性质的一个层次的受害者在纪念活动中的作用。其次，讨论涉及一系列相互关联的想法，定义纪念的空间性和景观，并考虑在日常生活的接地现实和北方爱尔兰政治的实用主义内纪念麻烦的做法和空间化。我们认为，记住和忘记的麻烦点的死者的过程中，充其量，形成了一个民主的“冲突共识”，其中有争议的遗产受害者都构成了一个重要的资源，在民族民族主义和民族教派政治，并破坏了联合贝尔法斯特协议，其试图省略过去的负担。
The Belfast Agreement of 1998, which initiated the so-called Peace Process in Northern Ireland, was fashioned so as to avoid creating mechanisms for addressing the legacy of the past, not least the commemoration of the fatalities of the Troubles which began in 1969. In this paper we explore, first, the role of the past and practices of commemoration in unagreed societies such as Northern Ireland in which consensus appears an unlikely proposition, the focus being on inclusion and exclusion and on the role of the contested nature of a hierarchical victimhood in commemoration. Second, the discussion engages with a succession of interconnected ideas that define the spatiality and landscapes of commemoration and considers the practices and spatialization of commemorating the Troubles within the grounded reality of everyday life and within the pragmatism of politics in Northern Ireland. We argue that processes of remembering and forgetting the dead of the Troubles point, at best, to a democracy shaped by ‘conflictual consensus’, in which the contested heritage of victimhood both constitutes an important resource in ethnonationalist and ethnosectarian politics and undermines the consociational Belfast Agreement and its attempt to elide the burdens of the past.