Crowley / Unknown / Linehan Spacing Ireland

Place, society and culture in a post-boom era
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1191-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Spacing Ireland explores questions of ‘space’ and ‘place’ to understand the nature of major social, cultural and economic change in contemporary Ireland.The authors explore the intersections between everyday life and global exchanges through the contexts of the ‘stuff’ of contemporary everyday encounters

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Crowley, Caroline

Linehan, Denis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction: Geographies of the post-boom era
Part I: Spacing belonging
1. Ghost estates: Spaces and spectres of Ireland after NAMA
2. ‘Of course I’m not Irish’: Young people in migrant worker families in Ireland
3. Migrants in the fields: Making work pay
4. Raising the emerald curtain: Communities and collaboration along the Irish border
Part II: Mobility, space and consumption
5. Reading the Irish motorway: Landscape, mobility and politics after the ‘Crash’
6. Lone parents, leisure mobilities and the everyday
7. Rethinking the liveable city in a post boom-time Ireland
8. Flocking north: Renegotiating the Irish border
9. Growth amidst decline: Ireland’s grassroots food growing movement
Part III: Culture and place
10. Ancestors in the field: Irish farming knowledges
11. Health and wellness or conspicuous consumption? The spa in Celtic Tiger Ireland
12. ‘Traditional Irish music here tonight’: Exploring the session space
13. ‘Through American eyes’: A hundred years of Ireland in the National Geographic Magazine
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Crowley Caroline:
Caroline Crowley is a research associate with the Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century (ISS21) at University College CorkCaroline Crowley is Research Associate with the Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century (ISS21) at University College Cork

Denis Linehan is Lecturer in Human Geography at University College Cork