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  • Literature's Critique, Subversion, and Transformation of Justice

    Literature is an institution per se, as is justice, and these two institutions enact each other in complex ways. Justice appears in many forms from divine right and religious ordainment to metaphysical imperative and natural law, to national jurisdiction, social order, human rights, and civil disobedience. What is just and right has varied in time and place, in war and peace. A sense of justice ... Read more

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  • The Legacy of the Good Friday Agreement

    Northern Irish Politics, Culture and Art after 1998

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a multidisciplinary collection of essays that seek to explore the deeply problematic legacy of post-Agreement Northern Ireland. Thus, the authors of this book look at a number of issues that continue to stymie the development of a robust and sustainable peacebuilding project, including segregation, contested parades and flags, ethnic party mobilization, and memorialization. ... Read more

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