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"There Were Streets": Urban Renewal And The Early Troubles In London/Derry, Northern Ireland, Margo Shea Dec 2014

"There Were Streets": Urban Renewal And The Early Troubles In London/Derry, Northern Ireland, Margo Shea

Margo Shea

Spatializing Politics is an anthology of emerging scholarship that treats built and imagined spaces as critical to knowing political power. In academic and popular discourse, spaces tend to serve as passive containers, symbols, or geographical coordinates for political theories, ideologies, and histories. By contrast, the essays in this collection illustrate how buildings and landscapes as disparate as Rust Belt railway stations and rural Rwandan hills become tools of political action and frameworks for political authority. Each chapter features original research on the spatial production of conflict and consensus, which ranges from exclusion and incarceration to reclamation and reconciliation. By focusing …

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Masonry And Orangeism: More Fraternal And Less Vitrolic In A Changing Scene, Paul J. Rich Dec 2003

Masonry And Orangeism: More Fraternal And Less Vitrolic In A Changing Scene, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

The Orange Order has figured in Irish history and in the problems of Northern Ireland for two centuries. Although it has many Masonic affinities, it is an international movement (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, parts of Africa) with it sown distinct culture, and its rituals at times have supported a virulent Protestantism.

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Orangeism And Freemasonry, Paul J. Rich Dec 1993

Orangeism And Freemasonry, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

The Orange Order has figured prominently in Irish political history and particularly in the problems of Northern Ireland for two centuries. Although it has many Masonic affinities, it is an international movement (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, parts of Africa) with its own distinct culture, and its rituals at times have supported a virulent Protestantism.

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