Irish/ness Is All Around Us

by Olaf Zenker
Irish/ness Is All Around Us
Author: Olaf Zenker
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857459147
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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.

The Irish in Us

by Diane Negra
The Irish in Us
Author: Diane Negra
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2006-02-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780822337409
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DIVA colleciton that looks at how Irishness has become a discursive commodity within popular culture./div

When God Comes to Town

by Rik Pinxten
When God Comes to Town
Author: Rik Pinxten
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2009
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781845455545
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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

by Sean O’ Dubhghaill
An Anthropology of the Irish in Belgium
Author: Sean O’ Dubhghaill
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2019-07-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030241475
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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.

Frontiers of Civil Society

by Marek Mikuš
Frontiers of Civil Society
Author: Marek Mikuš
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2018-06-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1785338919
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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.

Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research

by Stephen Lucek
Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research
Author: Stephen Lucek
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2021-11-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000459829
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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.

Rhythms of Writing

by Helena Wulff
Rhythms of Writing
Author: Helena Wulff
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2020-05-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000190013
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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.

New Speakers of Irish in the Global Context

by Bernadette O'Rourke
New Speakers of Irish in the Global Context
Author: Bernadette O'Rourke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351998994
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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.