Practice, Power and Inertia: Personal Narrative, Archives and Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
| العنوان: | Practice, Power and Inertia: Personal Narrative, Archives and Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland |
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| المؤلفون: | Grainne Kelly, Brandon Hamber |
| المصدر: | Journal of Human Rights Practice. 8:25-44 |
| بيانات النشر: | Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016. |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | History, Sociology and Political Science, Human rights, Personal narrative, media_common.quotation_subject, Compromise, 05 social sciences, Subject (philosophy), Media studies, 06 humanities and the arts, 0506 political science, 060104 history, Power (social and political), Oral history, Law, Political Science and International Relations, 050602 political science & public administration, 0601 history and archaeology, Narrative, Sociology, Storytelling, media_common |
| الوصف: | Through the prism of Northern Ireland, this article explores the function of existing and proposed archives within societies emerging from conflict, and highlights their potential in adding complexity to understanding conflict and challenging dominant narratives. The article outlines how, despite progress since the Northern Ireland peace accord in 1998, efforts to deal with the past and human rights violations have been piecemeal and politically contested. In the absence of a comprehensive approach to the past, testimony gathering, initiated ‘unofficially’ at a community level, has provided opportunities for individuals’ experiences of the conflict to be documented and acknowledged. The recent Stormont House Agreement (2014) seeks to establish an Oral History Archive as a central repository for individuals to ‘share experiences and narratives related to the Troubles’. The article discusses the challenges in developing this ‘official’ archive, and the problem of reconciling competing historical narratives of the past. This is contrasted against the growth in bottom-up ‘storytelling’ or testimony work. The article argues for supplementing the official process with wider testimony gathering processes directed by and located within community contexts. It is argued that the deliberate juxtaposition of contrasting horizontal or inter-community narratives held by different local parties may allow for the emergence of a more complex and inclusive narrative of the past, rather than attempts to impose a shared vertical narrative, which is subject to either further contestation or uncomfortable compromise. |
| تدمد: | 1757-9627 1757-9619 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::547e606b071e6df2c334a1b7fbf20549 https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huw001 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........547e606b071e6df2c334a1b7fbf20549 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 17579627 17579619 |
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