Showing papers by "Hellenic College published in 2002"
TL;DR: In this article, a group of working-class women living in Belfast address their personal and collective experiences with the multiple forms of violence that structure their daily lives by describing an ongoing feminist participatory action research (PAR) project that provided women with a culturally relevant lens through which to view the historical and political contexts in which they live and act.
Abstract: As the newly elected members of the Northern Ireland Assembly work towards implementing mechanisms for protecting and furthering the economic, social, political, cultural, and civic rights of the people of the North of Ireland, many local people are simultaneously developing strategies for addressing the legacy of violence that has characterized life in that region of the world for over 30 years. In this article, I describe how one group of working-class women living in Belfast address their personal and collective experiences with the multiple forms of violence that structure their daily lives. I do so by describing an ongoing feminist participatory action research (PAR) project that provided the women with a culturally relevant lens through which to view the historical and political contexts in which they live and act.Although there were multiple dimensions of the women’s lives that were revealed in the project, in this article I focus specifically on the ‘frozen watchfulness’ that characterizes life on...