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1. 1. "The City is Yours": Desegregation and Sharing Space in Post-Conflict Belfast

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Alec Forss; [2018]
   Keywords : borders; space; ethnicity; peace wall; interface; Belfast; identity; shared space; segregation; Protestants; Catholics; paramilitary;

   Abstract : This study examines how borders are socially produced and deconstructed in “post-conflict” North Belfast. Twenty years after the signing of the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, a peace model lauded for the resolution of conflicts worldwide, Belfast today remains a highly divided city with the existence of numerous segregation barriers, among them so-called peace walls, physically separating Protestant from Catholic neighbourhoods. READ MORE