The Making and Unmaking of Social Identity Boundaries and Physically Defined Geographical Borders: The interrelated bordering processes of social sectarian division and interface barriers in North and West Belfast, Northern Ireland

Abstract

This study analyses the interrelated bordering processes of social identity boundaries and (physically defined) geographical borders in the case of sectarian division and interface barriers in North and West Belfast, Northern Ireland. In order to understand how interface barriers are aimed to be deconstructed to promote reconciliation, bordering processes are scrutinised in a broader time frame and from a contemporary border studies perspective by combining geographical and anthropological understandings of borders and boundaries.