Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space: Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland

Published by Berghahn Books 2018

Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space

Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland

Edited by: Milena Komarova and Maruška Svašek

Volume 8 in the series Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785339387

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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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Maruška Svašek is Professor of Anthropology 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.

Reviews

“Milena Komarova and Maruška Svašek’s edited volume is a commendable piece of scholarship on Northern Ireland that manages to be ambitious in scope but never scattershot in execution… a magnificent work on the outbound orientation of mobility and sociality and, lamentably, how this sociability brushes up against the walls and the persistent, dichotomous views of two opposing communities that constrain and reify them.” • JRAI

“A very welcome and timely contribution… This is a book that manages to be both detailed and insightful in its elaboration of fascinating empirical data whilst also being very strong in its conceptual and methodological contribution.” • Katy Hayward, Queen's University Belfast

“This volume will set a new benchmark for the ethnographic study of life in the north of Ireland today. Focusing on practices and discourses of placemaking, it explores many of the nooks and crannies of everyday life that are perhaps less than visible to the outsider… It is a pleasure to read and makes an important contribution to our understanding of the place in question, and its people, but also to the wider anthropology of the contemporary world.” • Richard P Jenkins, Sheffield University

“[This book] represents a valuable addition to the literature on Northern Ireland due to the manner in which it integrates the new with the established, the perspectives of the majority communities with those of the new minority communities and in the way that it foregrounds women's perspectives.” • Neil Jarman, Queen's University Belfast

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction. Spatiality, Movement and Place-Making Maruška Svašek and Milena Komarova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Growing Up with the Troubles: Reading and Negotiating Space Angela Stephanie Mazzetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
2. Crafting Identities: Prison Artefacts and Place-Making in Pre- and Post-ceasefire Northern Ireland Erin Hinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
3. ‘Recalling or Suggesting Phantoms’: Walking in West Belfast Elizabeth De Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
4. ‘Women on the Peace Line’: Challenging Divisions through the Space of Friendship Andrea García González Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
5. ‘You Have No Legitimate Reason to Access’: Visibility and Movement in Contested Urban Space Milena Komarova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
6. ‘Lifting the Cross’ in West Belfast: Enskilling Crucicentric Vision through Pedestrian Spatial Practice Kayla Rush Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
7. Engaging amid Divisions: Social Media as a Space for Political Intervention and Interactions in Northern Ireland Augusto H. Gazir and M. Soares Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
8. Belfast’s Festival of Fools: Sharing Space through Laughter Nick Mc-Caffery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
9. Criss-crossing Pathways: The Indian Community Centre as a Focus of Diasporic and Cross-Community Place-Making Maruška Svašek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
10. Sushi or Spuds? Japanese Migrant Women and Practices of Emplacement in Northern Ireland Naoko Maehara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
11. Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Belfast: Finding ‘Home’ through Space and Time Malcolm Franklin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
Afterword. Cupar Way or Cupar Street: Integration and Division around a Belfast Wall Dominic Bryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 310
Keywords: Northern Ireland; Ireland; Belfast; Urban Studies; Post-Conflict; Cultural Identity; Social Cohesion

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Published: July 20, 2018
ISBN: 9781785339387