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This paper analyses the relationship between territoriality
and organised violence through an examination of the role of the state in the
establishment, maintenance and institutionalisation of sub-state territories
associated with armed challengers. It outlines how these bounding processes are
generated through interaction between the state and challengers rather than
primarily through the actions of challengers. The argument is illustrated with
examples from the most recent period of violent conflict in the North of
Ireland, drawing on interviews with ex-combatants and on a range of other
primary sources, including official papers, private papers and the memoirs of
ex-combatants. The paper moves on then to critique the currently dominant modes
of analysing political violence along axes of territorial classification, examining
both the state-focused large-n studies that have dominated work on war and
violence since the 1960s and the more recent spatially disaggregated large-n
studies that work with smaller-scale spatial units of analysis. It argues that
many of these ostensibly territorial approaches work without any clear
conception of territoriality and of the relationship between territory and
power and are inadequate for analyzing bounding processes in violent conflicts.
It concludes by offering some suggestions for future research on the
relationship between territoriality and organised violence.
| Original language | English (Ireland) |
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| Media of output | Invited Seminars |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2013 |