Northern Ireland and the Politics of Boredom - Conflict, Capital and Culture

This book examines the capitalist critiques that underpin representations of sectarian conflict in poetry, photography, performance, oral-testimony and punk.

List of contents

Introduction: the price of peace
1 Geographies of boredom and the new city of Craigavon
2 'Middle-class shits': political apathy and the poetry of Derek Mahon
3 Double negative: the psychogeography of sectarianism in Northern
Irish photography
4 Monotony and control: re-reading Internment
5 'The brightest spot in Ulster': total history and the H-Blocks in film
Conclusion: Alternative Ulster?

About the author

George Legg is Lecturer in Liberal Arts and London at King's College, London

Summary

This book examines the capitalist critiques that underpin representations of sectarian conflict in poetry, photography, performance, oral-testimony and punk. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Dr George Legg, George Legg
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781526128867
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2886-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Northern Ireland, Literature & literary studies, British & Irish history, Comparative Politics, Biography, Literature and Literary studies