The fitness of persons in the landscape
Isolation, belonging and emergent subjects in rural Ireland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18953136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Drazin (0000-0002-3862-9117, Department of Anthropology University College London 14 Taviton Street London WC1H 0BW, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 535-549 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-0282 • E-ISSN: 1469-8676 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1469-8676.12521 |
| OpenAlex | W2809536308 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 21 |
The concept of isolation has dogged anthropological studies of rural Ireland. This paper re‐conceptualises isolation through ethnographic work undertaken on the minibuses run by Rural Transport projects in five counties of Ireland. Instead of seeing isolation as an embedded characteristic of Irish landscapes, histories or of the ageing body, the paper describes dynamic, shifting expectations of belonging and community. On the Rural Transport buses, characteristic moments of witnessing ‘figures in the landscape’ during predictable and routinised journeys produce strikingly new negotiations of alterity and sameness among the passengers. The paper argues for the significance of these moments in developing a socialised, inscribed landscape and new senses of generative agency
Alterity · Archaeology · Epistemology · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Inscribed figure · Irish · Negotiation · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Locality and Belonging
In the Event
Family systems and the foundations of class in Ireland and England
Occasions of Faith
Bodies that matter
Explanations of depression among Irish migrants in Britain
A Sense of Place, a Place of Senses
La distinction, critique sociale du jugement
Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics
Mad Kings, Paper Houses, and an Asylum in Rural Ireland
The Psychic Life of Power
A phenomenology of landscape
Ire in Ireland
From Arcadia to Anomie
Graves, ruins, and belonging
Excluded Spaces
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |