This article looks at cricket as a cultural practice that embodies Britishness in Northern Ireland. In general, cricket is mythologically tied to an unchanging, nostalgic vision of quintessential Britishness. As a practice, though, cricket represents varieties of Britishness as well as other identities. In Northern Ireland, being "British" is taken as possessing a specific political position and viewpoint within the context of the sectarian conflict that dominated the sociopolitical realm in the latter half of the twentieth century. The cessation of formal political violence in 1998 not only resulted in increased economic prosperity and investment but also increased immigration to the region. Consequently, alternative, more broadly defined notions of Britishness potentially threaten the entrenched, locally specific understandings. I argue that these new understandings played out against local sensibilities on the cricket pitch represent some of the changes occurring in post-conflict Northern Ireland.
Toons and Tenants: Settlement and Society in Shetland, 1299–1899. Brian Smith. Lerwick, Shetland Islands: The Shetland Times, Ltd. 2000. xviii. 108pp. index. ISBN 1-898852-68-5.
An Anthropology of the European Union: Building, Imagining and Experiencing the New Europe, Irène Benller and Thomas M. Wilson, eds.Berg:Oxford, New York 2000
This paper confronts questions of political identity raised by the transition to democracy in Poland by focusing on university students in the late 1990s. These youth have constructed a shared identity that is defined by political competence derived through international experience. These students also define their political identity in terms of their differences from earlier generations. I explore the process of political identity construction by looking at representations — images created by these students and about these students - which are used as mechanisms for both communicating and constructing shared identity. While much work has been done that examines the format and structure of the evolving political organizations in Central Europe, my research provides a micro-level analysis of one important, but too often overlooked, aspect of this transition: the relationships that individuals involved in this transition establish between themselves, the state and their fellow citizens.
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