Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space

Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-937-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 605 g

Reihe: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement

Exploring the complex dynamics of twenty-first century spatial sociality, this volume provides a much-needed multi-dimensional perspective that undermines the dominant image of Northern Ireland as a conflict-ridden place. Despite touching on memories of “the Troubles” and continuing unionist-nationalist tensions, the volume refuses to consider people in the region as purely political beings, or to understand processes of placemaking solely through ethnic or national contestations and territoriality. Topics such as the significance of friendship, gender, and popular culture in spatial practices are considered, against the backdrop of the growing presence of migrants, refugees and diasporic groups.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Komarova, Milena

Sva¿ek, Maru¿ka

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Spatiality, Movement and Place-Making


Maruška Svašek and Milena Komarova

Chapter 1. Growing up with the Troubles: Reading and Negotiating Space  

Angela Stephanie Mazzeti

Chapter 2. Crafting Identities: Prison Artefacts and Place-Making in Pre- and Post-ceasefire Northern Ireland

Erin Hinson

Chapter 3. ‘Recalling or Suggesting Phantoms’: Walking in Belfast

Elizabeth DeYoung

Chapter 4. ‘Women on the Peace Line’: Challenging Divisions through the Space of Friendship

Andrea García González

Chapter 5. ‘You Have No Legitimate Reason to Access’: Visibility and Movement in Contested Urban Space

Milena Komarova

Chapter 6. ‘Lifting the Cross’ in West Belfast: Enskilling Crucicentric Vision Through Pedestrian Spatial Practice

Kayla Rush

Chapter 7. Engaging amid Divisions: Social Media as a Space for Political Intervention and Interactions in Northern Ireland

Augusto H. Gazir M. Soares

Chapter 8. Belfast’s Festival of Fools: Sharing Space through Laughter

Nick McCafferty

Chapter 9. Criss-crossing Pathways: The Indian Community Centre as a Focus of Diasporic and Cross-Community Place-Making

Maruška Svašek

Chapter 10. Sushi or Spuds? Japanese Migrant Women and Practices of Emplacement in Northern Ireland

Naoko Maehara

Chapter 11. Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Belfast: Finding ‘Home’ through Space and Time

Malcolm Franklin

Afterword: Cupar Way or Cupar Street – Integration and Division around a Belfast Wall

Dominic Bryan

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Komarova, Milena
Milena Komarova is a Research Officer at the Centre for Cross Border Studies, Armagh and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast. Her research spans the fields of conflict transformation, urban sociology and border studies, exploring the intersections between place, identities and bordering practices within and without ethno-nationally “divided” cities.

Sva¿ek, Maru¿ka
Maruška Svašek is Reader in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's University, Belfast, and Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. Recent major publications include Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (2007), Emotions and Human Mobility: Ethnographies of Movement (2012), Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions (2012), and (with Birgit Meyer) Creativity in Transition. Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe (2016).

Milena Komarova is a Research Officer at the Centre for Cross Border Studies, Armagh and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast. Her research spans the fields of conflict transformation, urban sociology and border studies, exploring the intersections between place, identities and bordering practices within and without ethno-nationally “divided” cities.