Citation

Hearty K. Stud. Conflict Terrorism 2019; 42(6): 581-599.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/1057610X.2017.1402430

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article assesses how Violent Dissident Irish Republican (VDR) groups have turned to funerary practice as a spoiling tactic in post-Good Friday Agreement Northern Ireland. In doing so it moves the lens of interrogation away from the residual violence exercised by these groups and onto other nonviolent mechanisms and strategies. Locating this discussion within the wider study of the VDR phenomenon, the article asserts that militarized and ritualized funerals possess propagandistic and mobilizational benefits that make them particularly conducive to spoiling activity in a post-conflict site that is increasingly embracing the process of normalization.

Language: en