Irish/ness Is All Around Us

2013-04-01
Irish/ness Is All Around Us

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  • Author: Olaf Zenker
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN: 0857459147
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 320

Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language, music, dance and sports. The author’s theoretical approach to ethnicity and ethnic revivals presents an expanded explanatory framework for the social (re)production of ethnicity, theorizing the mutual interrelations between representations and cultural practices regarding their combined capacity to engender ethnic revivals. Relevant not only to readers with an interest in the intricacies of the Northern Irish situation, this book also appeals to a broader readership in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history and political science concerned with the mechanisms behind ethnonational conflict and the politics of culture and identity in general.

Pandemic Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora in Germany

Pandemic Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora in Germany

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  • Author: Margaret Haverty
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3031652118
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 366

The Irish in Us

2006-02-22
The Irish in Us

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  • Author: Diane Negra
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822337409
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 410

DIVA colleciton that looks at how Irishness has become a discursive commodity within popular culture./div

When God Comes to Town

2009
When God Comes to Town

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  • Author: Rik Pinxten
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN: 9781845455545
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 166

Around 1800 roughly three per cent of the human population lived in urban areas; by 2030 this number is expected to have gone up to some seventy per cent. This poses problems for traditional religions that are all rooted in rural, small-scale societies. The authors in this volume question what the possible appeal of these old religions, such as Christianity, Judaism, or Islam could be in the new urban environment and, conversely, what impact global urbanization will have on learning and on the performance and nature of ritual. Anthropologists, historians and political scientists have come together in this volume to analyse attempts made by churches and informal groups to adapt to these changes and, at the same time, to explore new ways to study religions in a largely urbanized environment.

An Anthropology of the Irish in Belgium

2019-07-22
An Anthropology of the Irish in Belgium

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  • Author: Sean O’ Dubhghaill
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3030241475
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 222

The first anthropological account of the Irish diaspora in Europe in the 21st century, this book provides a culture-centric examination of the Irish diaspora. Focusing less on an abstract or technical definition of Irish self-identification, the author allows members of this group to speak through vignettes and interview excerpts, providing an anthropological lens that allows the reader to enter a frame of self-reference. This book therefore provides architecture to understand how diasporic communities might understand their own identities in a new way and how they might reconsider the role played by mobility in changing expressions of identity. Providing firsthand, experiential and narrative insight into the Irish diaspora in Europe, this volume promises to contribute an anthropological perspective to historical accounts of the Irish overseas, theoretical works in Irish studies, and sociological examinations of Irish identity and diaspora.

Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research

2021-11-29
Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research

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  • Author: Stephen Lucek
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000459829
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 265

This collection brings together work from scholars across sociolinguistics, World Englishes and linguistic landscapes to reflect on developments and future directions in Irish English, building on the ground-breaking contributions of Jeffrey Kallen to the discipline. Taking their cue from Kallen’s extensive body of work on Irish English, the 20 contributors critically examine advances in the field grounded in frameworks from variationist sociolinguistics and semiotic and border studies in linguistic landscapes. Chapters cover pragmatic, cognitive sociolinguistic, sociophonetic, historical and World Englishes perspectives, as well as two chapters which explore the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland through the lens of perceptual dialectology and linguistic landscape research. Taken together, the collection showcases the significant role Kallen has played in the growth of Irish English studies as a field in its own right and the impact of this work on a new wave of researchers in the field today and beyond. This volume will be of particular interest to scholars of varieties of English, variationist sociolinguistics and linguistic landscape research.

Frontiers of Civil Society

2018-06-13
Frontiers of Civil Society

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  • Author: Marek Mikuš
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN: 1785338919
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 358

In Serbia, as elsewhere in postsocialist Europe, the rise of “civil society” was expected to support a smooth transformation to Western models of liberal democracy and capitalism. More than twenty years after the Yugoslav wars, these expectations appear largely unmet. Frontiers of Civil Society asks why, exploring the roles of multiple civil society forces in a set of government “reforms” of society and individuals in the early 2010s, and examining them in the broader context of social struggles over neoliberal restructuring and transnational integration.

Rhythms of Writing

2020-05-15
Rhythms of Writing

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  • Author: Helena Wulff
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000190013
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 189

This is the first anthropological study of writers, writing and contemporary literary culture. Drawing on the flourishing literary scene in Ireland as the basis for her research, Helena Wulff explores the social world of contemporary Irish writers, examining fiction, novels, short stories as well as journalism. Discussing writers such as John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, Frank McCourt, Anne Enright, Deirdre Madden, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Colum McCann, David Park, and Joseph O ́Connor, Wulff reveals how the making of a writer’s career is built on the ‘rhythms of writing’: long hours of writing in solitude alternate with public events such as book readings and media appearances. Destined to launch a new field of enquiry, Rhythms of Writing is essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology, literary studies, creative writing, cultural studies, and Irish studies.

Beyond Writing Culture

2010-05-01
Beyond Writing Culture

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  • Author: Olaf Zenker
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN: 1845458176
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 257

Two decades after the publication of Clifford and Marcus’ volume Writing Culture, this collection provides a fresh and diverse reassessment of the debates that this pioneering volume unleashed. At the same time, Beyond Writing Culture moves the debate on by embracing the more fundamental challenge as to how to conceptualise the intricate relationship between epistemology and representational practices rather than maintaining the original narrow focus on textual analysis. It thus offers a thought-provoking tapestry of new ideas relevant for scholars not only concerned with ‘the ethnographic Other’, but with representation in general.

Gaelic Athletic Association and Irishness

2011-09
Gaelic Athletic Association and Irishness

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  • Author: Ian Wild
  • Publisher: Knightstone Publishing Ltd
  • ISBN: 1908134011
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 354

Times are tough for the men and women of Old Grethwick Police Force. As if one-legged murderers, ghoulish thespians, drug-dealing vicars and human-hating buildings aren't enough to deal with, someone has just made 75 politicians disappear. At least that last one has cheered everybody up a bit.