Irish Ness Is All Around Us

Author : Olaf Zenker
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857459145

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Irish/ness Is All Around Us by Olaf Zenker Pdf

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.

Author : Olaf Zenker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1090069865

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Irish/ness is All Around Us by Olaf Zenker Pdf

Author : Marek Mikuš
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785338915

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Frontiers of Civil Society by Marek Mikuš Pdf

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.

Author : Sean O’ Dubhghaill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030241476

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An Anthropology of the Irish in Belgium by Sean O’ Dubhghaill Pdf

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.

Author : Laurent Dousset,Mélissa Nayral
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789200416

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Pacific Realities by Laurent Dousset,Mélissa Nayral Pdf

Throughout the Pacific region, people are faced with dramatic changes, often described as processes of “glocalization”; individuals and groups espouse multilayered forms of identity, in which global modes of thinking and doing are embedded in renewed perceptions of local or regional specificities. Consequently, new forms of resistance and resilience – the processes by which communities attempt to regain their original social, political, and economic status and structure after disruption or displacement – emerge. Through case studies from across the Pacific which transcend the conventional “local-global” dichotomy, this volume aims to explore these complex and interwoven phenomena from a new perspective.

Author : Stephen Lucek,Carolina P. Amador-Moreno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000459821

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Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research by Stephen Lucek,Carolina P. Amador-Moreno Pdf

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.

Author : Diane Negra
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822337401

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The Irish in Us by Diane Negra Pdf

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

Author : Helena Wulff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000190014

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Rhythms of Writing by Helena Wulff Pdf

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.

Author : Bernadette O'Rourke,John Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351998994

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New Speakers of Irish in the Global Context by Bernadette O'Rourke,John Walsh Pdf

This volume is the first full-length publication to systematically unpack and analyze the linguistic practices and ideologies of "new speakers" specifically in an Irish language context. The book introduces the theoretical foundations of the new speaker framework as it manifests itself in the Irish setting, describes its historical precedents, and traces its evolution to today. The book then draws upon a rich set of data and research methods, including participant observation and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the new speaker phenomenon in Irish in greater detail. Areas of analysis include new speakers’ language practices and usage and the ways in which they position their linguistic identities both within their respective communities and in juxtaposition with "native" speakers. While the book’s focus is on Irish, the volume will contribute to a greater understanding of new speaker practices and ideologies in minority language contexts more generally, making this key reading for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, language policy and planning, anthropology, and Irish studies.

Author : John O'Flynn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351543378

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The Irishness of Irish Music by John O'Flynn Pdf

This book brings together important material from a range of sources and highlights how government organizations, musicians, academics and commercial companies are concerned with, and seek to use, a particular notion of Irish musical identity. Rooting the study in the context of the recent history of popular, traditional and classical music in Ireland, as well as providing an overview of aspects of the national field of music production and consumption, O'Flynn goes on to argue that the relationship between Irish identity and Irish music emerges as a contested site of meaning. His analysis exposes the negotiation and articulation of civic, ethnic and economic ideas within a shifting hegemony of national musical culture, and finds inconsistencies between and among symbolic constructions of Irish music and observed patterns in the domestic field. More specifically, O'Flynn illustrates how settings, genres, social groups and values can influence individual identifications or negations of Irishness in music. While the apprehension of intra-musical elements leads to perceptions of music that sounds Irish, style and authenticity emerge as critical articulatory principles in the identification of music that feels Irish. The celebratory and homogenizing discourse associated with the international success of some Irish musical forms is not reflected in the opinions of the people interviewed by O'Flynn; at the same time, an insider/outsider dialectic of national identity is found in various forms of discourse about Irish music. Performers and composers discussed include Bill Whelan (Riverdance), Sinead O'Connor, The Corrs, Altan, U2, Martin Hayes, Dolores Keane and Gerald Barry.

Author : Olaf Zenker,Karsten Kumoll
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845458171

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Beyond Writing Culture by Olaf Zenker,Karsten Kumoll Pdf

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.

Author : Rik Pinxten,Lisa Dikomitis
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1845455541

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When God Comes to Town by Rik Pinxten,Lisa Dikomitis Pdf

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.

Author : Olaf Zenker,Cherryl Walker,Zsa-Zsa Boggenpoel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009380805

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Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation by Olaf Zenker,Cherryl Walker,Zsa-Zsa Boggenpoel Pdf

Speeding up land reform through a constitutional amendment that would explicitly permit the expropriation of land without compensation has dominated legal and political-policy debates in South Africa in recent years. Taking this politically and emotionally charged issue as its starting point, this volume offers both expert commentary on this issue from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and also fresh ideas on how to advance the redistributive transformation that South Africa so urgently needs. It brings critically important debates around transformative property law, the need for diversified land justice and the possibilities of alternative forms of redistribution into productive conversation with each other. While grounded in the complex realities of South Africa's past and present, the volume speaks to concerns that resonate in many contexts in the Global South and beyond. It will appeal to scholars, students, policymakers and general readers concerned with both the theory and practice of redistributive justice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Gerhard Anders,Olaf Zenker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781118944776

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Transition and Justice by Gerhard Anders,Olaf Zenker Pdf

Transition and Justice examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful ‘new beginnings’ were declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions helped define justice and the new socio-political order. Offers a new perspective on transition and justice in Africa transcending the institutional limits of transitional justice Covers a wide range of situations, and presents a broad range of sites where past injustices are addressed Examines cases where peaceful ‘new beginnings’ have been declared after periods of violence Addresses fundamental questions about transitions and justice in societies characterized by a high degree of external involvement and internal fragmentation

Author : Marie-Claire Foblets,Michele Graziadei,Alison Dundes Renteln
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781315413594

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Personal Autonomy in Plural Societies by Marie-Claire Foblets,Michele Graziadei,Alison Dundes Renteln Pdf

This volume addresses the exercise of personal autonomy in contemporary situations of normative pluralism. In the Western liberal tradition, from a strictly legal and theoretical perspective the social individual has the right to exercise the autonomy of his or her will. In a context of legal plurality, however, personal autonomy becomes more complicated. Can and should personal autonomy be recognized as a legal foundation for protecting a person’s freedom to renounce what others view as his or her fundamental ‘human rights’? This collection develops an interdisciplinary conceptual framework to address these questions and presents empirical studies examining the gap between the principle of personal autonomy and its implementation. In a context of cultural diversity, this gap manifests itself in two particular ways. First, not every culture gives the same pre-eminence to personal autonomy when examining the legal effects of an individual’s acts. Second, in a society characterized by ‘weak pluralism’, the legal assessment of personal autonomy often favours the views of the dominant majority. In highlighting these diverse perspectives and problematizing the so-called ‘guardian function’ of human rights, i.e., purporting to protect weaker parties by limiting their personal autonomy in the name of gender equality, fair trial, etc., this book offers a nuanced approach to the principle of autonomy and addresses the questions of whether it can effectively be deployed in situations of internormativity and what conditions must be met in order to ensure that it is not rendered devoid of all meaning.