Des droits civils au carnaval : anthropologie de l’espace public à Belfast

This paper explores one of the defining aspects of politics and identity in Northern Ireland : the control and utilisation of public space, particularly urban public space. I will examine evidence of some changes in the way public space is being used in central Belfast that potentially reflects changing identities in the city. The paper concludes by speculating on whether a new civic identity that spans the political and ethnic divisions has started to develop in Belfast and that this might evolve even with increased residential division throughout the Belfast urban area.

Devoir de mémoire contre droit à l'imagination?:La querelle des historiens et des romanciers et la Seconde Guerre mondiale

conference paper given in Maynooth (History conference 18th 20th October 2013)