{"product_id":"northern-ireland-and-the-politics-of-boredom-conflict-capital-and-culture-9781526145895","title":"Northern Ireland and the Politics of Boredom:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book provides a new interpretation of the Northern Irish Troubles. From internment to urban planning, the hunger strikes to post-conflict tourism, it asserts that concepts of capitalism have been consistently deployed to alleviate and exacerbate violence in the North. Through a detailed analysis of the diverse cultural texts, Legg traces the affective energies produced by capitalism’s persistent attempt to resolve Northern Ireland’s ethnic-national divisions: a process he calls \u003ci\u003ethe politics of boredom\u003c\/i\u003e. Such an approach warrants a reconceptualization of boredom as much as cultural production. In close readings of Derek Mahon’s poetry, the photography of Willie Doherty and the female experience of incarceration, Legg argues that cultural texts can delineate a more democratic – less philosophical – conception of ennui.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘In that the book rethinks Northern Ireland in terms other than the established one of political divisions it is already significant. In that it focuses on a potentially progressive mode of understanding actualities which transcend old binaries it is doubly significant.’\u003cbr\u003eBritish Association for Irish Studies book prize judges, Highly Commended\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: the price of peace\u003cbr\u003e1          Geographies of boredom and the new city of Craigavon   \u003cbr\u003e2          ‘Middle-class shits’: political apathy and the poetry of Derek Mahon\u003cbr\u003e3          Double negative: the psychogeography of sectarianism in Northern \u003cbr\u003eIrish photography\u003cbr\u003e4          Monotony and control: re-reading Internment\u003cbr\u003e5          ‘The brightest spot in Ulster’: total history and the H-Blocks in film \u003cbr\u003eConclusion: \u003ci\u003eAlternative Ulster\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041009762647,"sku":"9781526145895","price":22.32,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/northern-ireland-and-the-politics-of-boredom-conflict-capital-and-culture-9781526145895","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}