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Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space Milena Komarova

Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space By Milena Komarova

Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space by Milena Komarova


Summary

Exploring the complex dynamics of twenty-first century spatial sociality, physical movement and placemaking in Northern Ireland, this volume provides a much-needed multi-dimensional perspective that undermines the dominant image of the country as a conflict-ridden place.

Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space Summary

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

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.

Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space Reviews

Milena Komarova and Maruska Svasek'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

About Milena Komarova

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Spatiality, Movement and Place-Making
Maruska Svasek 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 Garcia Gonzalez

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
Maruska Svasek

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

Additional information

GOR012931998
9781785339370
1785339370
Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space: Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland by Milena Komarova
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Berghahn Books
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