A01=Graham Dawson
afterlife of feeling
Author_Graham Dawson
Category=GTU
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complex temporality
conflict memory
dealing with the past
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Irish peace process
Legacy Act
life stories
Northern Ireland Troubles
post-conflict culture
post-conflict subjectivities
Product details
- ISBN 9781526146496
- Weight: 659g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Feb 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Focusing on experiential life stories across a range of forms and practices, this book investigates subjectivity, culture and the cultural politics of representation as a neglected dimension of conflict transformation in the Northern Irish peace process. Interdisciplinary critical perspectives from historical cultural studies, oral history and popular-memory theory inform close interpretive engagement with life stories in their cultural, historical and geographical contexts. This enables exploration of the complex temporal dynamics of 'post-conflict' subjectivities in the lengthening 'afterlife' of the Troubles, where feelings attached to conflict experiences are not 'past' but haunt the present, and memory-work carries future-oriented desires for truth, justice and reconciliation. Through case studies responding to the evolving peace process through this prism of life-storytelling, Afterlives maps a contested history of legacy policy-making and approaches to 'dealing with the past', from devolution in 2005-7 through to the Legacy and Reconciliation Act of 2023.
Graham Dawson is Visiting Professor in INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute) at Ulster
University.
