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Segregated Lives: Social Division, Sectarianism and Everyday Life in Northern Ireland

Segregated Lives: Social Division, Sectarianism and Everyday Life in Northern Ireland. Neil Jarman. Rationale. To analyse the ways and means that sectarianism and segregation are sustained and extended through the routine and mundane decisions of everyday lives.

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Segregated Lives: Social Division, Sectarianism and Everyday Life in Northern Ireland

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  1. Segregated Lives: Social Division, Sectarianism and Everyday Life in Northern Ireland Neil Jarman www.conflictresearch.org.uk

  2. Rationale • To analyse the ways and means that sectarianism and segregation are sustained and extended through the routine and mundane decisions of everyday lives. • Pierre Bourdieu – We live as social beings in a world of “structured structures predisposed to function as structuring structures”. www.conflictresearch.org.uk

  3. Background • 18 month qualitative study. • Funded by CRC through SEUPB. • 168 participants in six different locations across Northern Ireland. • Variety of methodologies – interviews, walks, diaries, mapping www.conflictresearch.org.uk

  4. Locations • Belfast – Tigers Bay / New Lodge • Belfast – Stranmillis • Newry – Shandon Park • Ballymena – Dunclug • Castlederg / Newtownstewart • Kilrea www.conflictresearch.org.uk

  5. Legacy and Class • Segregation a continuing legacy of Troubles • Impacts differently on different people • Impact of class on segregation • Importance of visibility and anonymity www.conflictresearch.org.uk

  6. Economic Aspects • Nature of segregation is changing • Economic regeneration has positive and negative impacts • More neutral / shared spaces • But co-exist with high segregation • Shopping increasingly neutral www.conflictresearch.org.uk

  7. Daily Routines • Work: neutrality and avoidance • Education: segregation & informal integration • Resources: access related to time of day and of year • Leisure: people socialise where they feel safe www.conflictresearch.org.uk

  8. Key Findings • Asserting community ID threatens cohesion • Denying community ID threatens belonging • Segregation impacts more on young than old and most on young men www.conflictresearch.org.uk

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