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| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Finlay, Andrew Robert | |
| Main Department | Sociology | |
| College Title | Lecturer | |
| andrew.finlay@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 2353 | |
| Web | http://people.tcd.ie/arfinlay | |
| Representations |
| Details | Date |
| Member Advisory Committee of the World Council of Anthropological Associations | 2010 - ongoing |
| International Delegate to the World Council of Anthropological Associations | 2008 - 2010 |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Anthropology Association of Ireland - Chairperson | 2008 | 2010 |
| European Association of Social Anthopology | ||
| Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland | ||
| The Irish Association for Cultural, Economic and Social Relations - Council Member | 1999 - 2009 |
| Description of Research Interests |
| Starting in 1998, prompted and enabled by the peace agreement signed in Belfast at Easter that year, I embarked on a new area of research on the management of conflicts that are construed as ethnic. My initial focus was on the provenance of the notions of culture and identity that underpinned the peace process and which feature so prominently in the Good Friday Agreement (GFA). In other words, this research was concerned to locate the GFA in a larger, global, intellectual history. This work resulted in an edited collection (Finlay 2004) and a series of articles in peer reviewed, international journals (Finlay 1999, 2001, 2007; Finlay and McDonnell 2003). Starting in 2005, as part of the ‘Global Networks’ project I have been developing my work in two new directions. Firstly, from looking at international influences on the GFA to looking at the international influence of the GFA. Consociationalism is said to have become become the default position of the ‘International Community’ when it comes to conflict resolution. It is true that the Irish case has been crucial to the development of consociational theory, and a consociational-type model has since been deployed not just in Northern Ireland but also Lebanon (Ta’if Agreement 1989), South Africa (the interim constitution 1993-1996), and the former Yugoslavia (Dayton Accords 1995) and this type of model continues to influence thinking in relation to Sri Lanka, Kashmir and Iraq. In short, one focus of my recent work has been the international projection of the GFA as an exemplar of conflict resolution. This new departure has already found some expression in published articles, notably Finlay (2007 and 2008). Secondly I have begun to focus on two case studies - the GFA and the Dayton Accords. I have been comparing local responses to these internationally-brokered agreements, particularly those with a critical edge. |
| Research Interests | |||
| Anthropology | CONFLICT | Citizenship | Ethnic Studies |
| Ethnography | Government Studies | Identity politics and social change | Nationalism |
| peace agreements |
| Research Projects | |
| Project title | Global Networks |
| Summary | Locating the peace process in Ireland in an International context |
| Funding Agency | Institute of International Integration Studies |
| Programme | PRTLI |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2005 |
| Date to | 2007 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | Evaluation of ATGWU Equality Project |
| Summary | Evaluation of anti-sectarian education project for ship stewards |
| Funding Agency | Central Community Relations Unit (NI Office) |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 1992 |
| Date to | 1997 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | Teenage Pregnancy and Adolescent Reproductive Behaviour in the North West |
| Summary | |
| Funding Agency | Western Health & Social Services Board (NI) |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 1990 |
| Date to | 1994 |
| Person Months | |
| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Finlay A ,, Governing Ethnic Conflict: Consociation, Identity and the Price of Peace, , , , Paperback, London and New York, Routledge, 2011, 152pp Url |
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| Finlay A , Governing Ethnic Conflict: Consociation, Identity and the Price of Peace, hardback, London and New York, Routledge, 2010, 152pp | |
| Finlay, Andrew R., The Persistence of the Old Idea of Culture, the Peace Process in Ireland and Anthropology, Critique of Anthropology, 28, (3), 2008, p279 - 296 |
| Non Peer Reviewed | |
| Andrew Finlay, Dublin Riots - What Lies Beneath Sunday Business Post 5/3/2006 , 2006, - Url |
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