Managing contested spaces: public managers, obscured mechanisms and the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland

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dc.contributor.authorMurphy, Joanne
dc.contributor.authorMcDowell, Sara
dc.contributor.authorBraniff, Marie
dc.contributor.authorDenyer, David
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-16T13:48:58Z
dc.date.available2017-06-16T13:48:58Z
dc.date.issued2017-06-15
dc.description.abstractSocieties emerging from ethno-political and inter-communal conflict face a range of complex problems that stem directly from the recent lived experience of bloodshed and injury, militarisation, securitisation and segregation. As institutional agents in such an environment, public managers perform the dual role of both interpreting public policy and implementing it within a politically contested space and place. In this article we address how managers cope with the outworking of ethno-nationalist conflict and peace building within government processes and policy implementation and contend this is a subject of emerging concern within the wider public administration, urban studies and conflict literature. Using data from a witness seminar initiative on the Northern Ireland conflict transformation experience, we explain how public sector managers make sense of their role in post-agreement public management and highlight the importance of three identified mechanisms; ‘bricolage’, ‘diffusion’ and ‘translation’ in the management of public sector organisations and urban spaces in a context of entrenched conflict and an uncertain path to peace.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationJoanne Murphy, Sara McDowell,Máire Braniff and David Denyer. Managing contested spaces: Public managers, obscured mechanisms and the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2018, Vol 36, Issue 3, pp443–459en_UK
dc.identifier.cris17749051
dc.identifier.isbnhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399654417714800
dc.identifier.issn2399-6544
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/12041
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherSAGEen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectConflict transformationen_UK
dc.subjecturban managementen_UK
dc.subjectpublic managersen_UK
dc.subjectbricolageen_UK
dc.subjectdiffusionen_UK
dc.subjecttranslationen_UK
dc.subjectNorthern Irelanden_UK
dc.titleManaging contested spaces: public managers, obscured mechanisms and the legacy of the past in Northern Irelanden_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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