The Troubles in Northern Ireland and Theories of Social Movements

Lorenzo Bosi is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Social Movement Studies (COSMOS) at the European University Institute. His research interests include social movements and political violence. He has published in several academic journals and is co-editor of Dynamics of Political Violence (Ashgate, 2014), of Political Violence in Context (ECPR PRESS, Forthcoming), of The Dynamics of Radicalization: A Relational Comparative Perspective (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming) and of The Consequences of Social Movements (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming). Gianluca De Fazio is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Justice Studies at James Madison University. His most recent research on the conflict in Northern Ireland and racial violence has been published in Mobilization, Sociological Methodology and International Journal of Comparative Sociology.

Chapter 1: Contextualizing the Troubles: Investigating Deeply Divided Societies through Social Movements Research Chapter 2: What did the Civil Rights Movement Want? Changing Goals and Underlying Continuities in the Transition from Protest to Violence Chapter 3: Vacillators or Resisters? The Unionist Government Responses to the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland Chapter 4: White Negroes and the Pink IRA: External Mainstream Media Coverage and Civil Rights Contention in Northern Ireland Chapter 5: 'We are the people': Protestant Identity and Collective Action in Northern Ireland, 1968-1985 Chapter 6: Ulster Loyalist Accounts of Armed Mobilization, Demobilization, and Decommissioning Chapter 7: Social Movements and Social Movement Organizations: Recruitment, Ideology, and Splits Chapter 8: Movement Inside and Outside of Prison: The H-Block Protest Chapter 9: 'Mother Ireland, Get Off Our Backs': Republican Feminist Resistance in the North of Ireland Chapter 10: 'One Community, Many Faces': Non-Sectarian Social Movements and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland and Lebanon Chapter 11: The Peace People: Principled and Revolutionary Nonviolence in Northern Ireland Afterword: Social Movements, Long-Term Processes, and Ethnic Division in Northern Ireland