Formations of violence: the narrative of the body and political terror in Northern Ireland
Abstract: Political violence in the social sciences has been conceptualized within diagnostic frameworks in which symptomological, utilitarian, causational and teological models predominate. In contrast, this study is concerned with the structural reproduction of political violence in Northern Irela...
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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]
University of Chicago Press
1991
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| In: | Jahr: 1991 |
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| Bestand in Tübingen: | In Tübingen vorhanden. UB: KB 18 A 8685 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Abstract: Political violence in the social sciences has been conceptualized within diagnostic frameworks in which symptomological, utilitarian, causational and teological models predominate. In contrast, this study is concerned with the structural reproduction of political violence in Northern Ireland and differentiates analyses of origins and initial causation from the analysis of the ongoing elaboration of political violence as a performation, narrative, symbolic and hegemonic system. The central hypotheses of this study are: (1) Acts of political violence are analyzable as instrumental-symbolic infrastructures informed by relations of intertextuality and transposition (2) In Northern Ireland, the symbolic organization of violence constitutes a uniform ans shared medium of material signification irrespective of the antagonistic ideological ascriptions of different paramilitary groups and the State. Based on oral histories taken from paramilitaries and members of their support communities, this study seeks to demonstrate that hegemonic contestation is characterized by formal ideological exclusion and substantive performative reciprocity. Discourse analysis foregrounds the disjunctive relations between formal ideological discourse and performative discourses. This dissonance between "myth" and "ritual" is mediated by symbolic systems, such as narrative strategies of metaphorization and metonymy. In turn, performative sequences and ensembles are treated as self-reproducing narratives subject to differential ideological appropriation by political antagonists. Genealogical analysis of the formation of performative practices, genres and ideologies, indentifies the following centers of political structuration: (1) The cathexis of the body as bearer of hegemonic codes; (2) The spatial representation of residual and transformative historical codes by violences; (3) Systems of performative reciprocity and exchange. These sites of structur4al genesis are comparatively analyzed in pivotal areas of violent enactment: (1) Sectarian murderM (2) Arrest, interrogation and torture; (3) Prison resistance movements. Semiotic and genealogical analysis reveals that since 1969, violent interactions among paramilitary groups and between these groups and the State have been increasingly organized around the following meta-narratives that have no explicit thematization in formal ideological discourse: (1) The mimetic construction of performances for the exchange of invested bodies as the bearers of political codes; (2) The organization of violent enactments around sacrificial, purification and expulsion scenarios; (3) The symbolic foundation of instrumental rationalities, ideologies of linear-teleological history on the construction of the body as a bearer of historical transformation. (Source: DAO). |
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| Beschreibung: | Bibliographie Seite 303-309 |
| Physische Details: | VII, 319 Seiten, Diagramme, Karten |
| ISBN: | 0226240703 0226240711 |
