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Article: The Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland: Power, Conflict and Emancipation.(Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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RUANE, JOSEPH & JENNIFER TODD. xvi, 365 pp, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1996. [pounds]45.00 (cloth), [pounds]14.95 (paper)
The Northern Irish conflict has attracted an enormous amount of attention from social scientists, much of it somewhat simple-minded. To pay this book the strongest possible compliment, the account of 'the troubles' that Ruane and Todd, a sociologist-cum-anthropologist and a political scientist, have assembled is anything but that. They offer a historically-deep, contemporaneously-nuanced and theoretically-informed account of the dynamics of the conflict. In the process, they endeavour to be even-handed to everyone and to pay attention ...