Selim, G orcid.org/0000-0001-6061-5953 (2018) Politicized Traditions: The Reproduction of Spatial Contestation through the Memory of Conflict. In: IASTE Working Paper Series. 16th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE 2018), 04-07 Oct 2018, Coimbra, Portugal. International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments
Abstract
Neighborhoods across the globe are becoming increasingly ‘divers,' yet their urban encounters reproduced through negotiating differences, exhibits models of social inequality and spatial imbalances. The paper will investigate young people’s relationship with contested traditions of the built environment in the context of Northern Ireland (NI), which has an extended history of profound ethnic conflict known as the Troubles. It will explore how the youngsters’ everyday practices are constantly colored by heavily ‘mythologised’ memories of conflict driven by political subjectivities of segregation. The argument is that their daily engagement forces them to employ tactics to challenge or resist these logistical realities by adopting alternative means of interaction within the public realm. Building on Mark Juvan’s ‘spaces of intertextuality, I will explain how young people in NI are widely exposed to ‘objects of conflict’ that contextualize memory of disturbing incidents. The paper questions whether the growing cultural and ethnic diversification of societies in NI could lead to transformative social relations of integration and belonging beyond groups defined by their ethnic identity.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is an author produced version of a paper published in the IASTE Working Paper Series. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Civil Engineering (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 27 Nov 2018 12:08 |
Last Modified: | 28 Nov 2018 12:15 |
Published Version: | http://iaste.berkeley.edu/publications/working-pap... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:136287 |