Ethnic Dignity and the Ulster-Scots Movement in Northern Ireland

In this book, Peter Gardner contends that the production of narratives of ethnic peoplehood is an attempt to regain a sense of collective dignity among the previously dominant.

After introducing the concept of ethnic dignity and locating its place within postconflict identity politics, Gardner focuses his analysis on the Ulster- Scots story of peoplehood. Drawing on a wealth of primary data, the chapters explore a variety of core issues including ethnopolitics, social class, political-economic ideology, colonialism, and heteromasculinity.

The book concludes by taking a global view of post-conflict ethnic dignity among the once dominant, analysing the New Afrikaans movement in South Africa, white pride and ethnic whiteness studies, and Maronite Phoenicianism in Lebanon.

This will be an important contribution for students and scholars of ethnicity,

divided societies and, more broadly, political sociology.

Utilises ethnicity as a conduit for attempts to regain a sense of dignity in the post-conflict identity landscape Regains a sense of collective dignity through reframings and (en)counterings with the ethnopolitical, class-based, political-economic, diasporic, postcolonial, and historical-domination aspects of peoplehood Builds upon the work of Rogers Brubaker, Rogers Smith, and Loïc Wacquant

Autorentext
Peter Gardner is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Reclamations of the Once Dominant. - Chapter 2: Ethnicity, Narrative, Power. - Chapter 3: Loyal, Not Loyalist.- Chapter 4: Presbytarian Minoritisation.- Chapter 5: Ethnic Dignity as Respectability Politics.- Chapter 6: Ethnic Neoliberalism and the Colonial Narrative.- Chapter 7: Muscular Ethnicity and the Masculine Dignity.- Chapter 8: Ethnic Dignity in Global Context.