Spacing Ireland (eBook, ePUB)

Place, society and culture in a post-boom era
Redaktion: Crowley, Caroline; Linehan, Denis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526111906
• Artikelnr.: 48795444

Autorenporträt

Caroline Crowley is a 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

Inhaltsangabe

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