www.conflictresearch.org. uk Segregated Lives: Social Division, Sectarianism and Everyday Life in Northern Ireland Neil Jarman
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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 people
3. Impact of class on segregation
4. Importance of visibility and anonymity
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Economic Aspects
5. Nature of segregation is changing
6. Economic regeneration has positive and negative impacts
7. More neutral / shared spaces
8. But co-exist with high segregation
9. 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