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Not the Troubles: Alternative Narratives from Belfast

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Not the Troubles

Alternative Narratives from Belfast

Karen Lane

228 pages, 20 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-031-8 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (July 2025)

eISBN 978-1-83695-032-5 eBook Not Yet Published


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“This amazing book challenges stereotypical notions about Belfast in Northern Ireland in a lucid, yet learned, style by focusing on alternative narratives...it is a great accomplishment.” • Helena Wulff, Stockholm University.

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Belfast is often analysed as a divided society, anchored in ethno-politico-religious differences amid a long history of conflict. However, shifting the focus of academic attention reveals a range of alternative narratives of city life. Using storytelling as a leitmotif, this ethnographic account explores the epistemological validity of engaging with strangers in a range of settings, such as street corners, a hairdresser’s and a storytelling evening. It considers how creative writers represent life in Belfast. The author employs a variety of methods, including a dog as a research assistant and storytelling on location which demonstrates how people can re-shape and re-narrate life in Belfast.

Karen Lane is a lecturer and Evening Degree Co-ordinator in social anthropology at the University of St Andrews. Her research interests are in storytelling, urban anthropology and using sensory knowledge as a research, teaching and learning tool. She was awarded the David Riches medal in 2017.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
Area: Northern Europe


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