Unionisms in Times of Change
Unions and unionisms are important because they offer an alternative form of politics to that of nation-states and nationalisms. They allow a wider variety of relations between a plurality of peoples, opening prospects of resolving territorial politics. But unionisms, as state- or polity-centred perspectives, are also typically power-centred, often using the resources of the polity to resist assertion by their members, thereby turning democratic challenges into secessionist ones.
Unionisms in Times of Change: Brexit, Britain and the Balkans focusses on these two faces of unionisms: the flexible alternative to the nation state, and the assertor of central power. This book is particularly timely at a period when the unions of the British Isles and of Europe have been disrupted by the process of British exit from the European Union, creating new dilemmas and options for unionisms in Northern Ireland. The chapters in this volume map the conceptual structure of unionisms; the ways unions are defined and defended in Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom, the European Union, the Balkans and Moldova; the ways they deal with challenge, conflict and change; the prospects of negotiation; the ways unionisms move from flexibility and accommodation to repression and back; and the opportunities for agreement and conflict resolution.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Irish Political Studies.
Jennifer Todd is Research Director of the Institute for British-Irish Studies at University College Dublin. She researches on ethnicity, identity and conflict. Her recent publications include Identity Change after Conflict (2018) and with John Coakley Negotiating Settlement in Northern Ireland (19692019) (2020).
Dawn Walsh is Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations and Director of the Institute for British-Irish Studies at University College Dublin. Her work has been published in several academic journals and she is the author of two books.
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Contents
Jennifer Todd and Dawn Walsh
Jennifer Todd
John Coakley
Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed
Jonathan Tonge, Mire Braniff, Thomas Hennessey, James W. McAuley and Sophie A. Whiting
John Garry, Brendan OLeary, John Coakley, James Pow and Lisa Whitten
Dawn Walsh
Soeren Keil
Neophytos Loizides
Paul Gillespie
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Irish Political Studies, volume 35, issue 3 (2020). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Unionisms in times of change: Brexit, Britain, Northern Ireland and the Balkans
Jennifer Todd and Dawn Walsh
Irish Political Studies, volume 35, issue 3 (2020), pp. 331334
Unionisms and the challenges of change
Jennifer Todd
Irish Political Studies, volume 35, issue 3 (2020), pp. 335355
Choosing between unions? Unionist opinion and the challenge of brexit
John Coakley
Irish Political Studies, volume 35, issue 3 (2020), pp. 356377
The DUP and the European Union: from contestation to conformance and back again
Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed
Irish Political Studies, volume 35, issue 3 (2020), pp. 378398
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