Racial capitalism, hauntology and the politics of death in Ireland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18977397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward Molloy (0000-0002-8378-7931, Ton Duc Thang University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 129-146 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Identities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1070-289X • E-ISSN: 1547-3384 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1070289x.2019.1658395 |
| OpenAlex | W2969731635 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article explores the ways in which death can be understood to occupy a formative function in the construction of Irish national identity. The analysis of three distinct moments in Irish history (Plantation-era funerary practices, the Great Famine, and the 1981 hunger strikes) is undertaken with recourse to Michel Foucault’s understanding of race as it is deployed through disciplinary and biopower and Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics. The continuing concern with history in Irish political discourse is juxtaposed with Derrida’s idea of ‘hauntology’. It will be seen that the act of remembering politically carries with it an ambivalent legacy, exposing the violence at the heart of the establishment of both states in Ireland, while maintaining the potential of emancipatory promise. This promise is itself rooted in the violence implicated in the production of alterity through the historical experience of death
Aesthetics · Alterity · Ambivalence · Art · Biopower · Capitalism · Discipline · Epistemology · Famine · Identity politics · Irish · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy
Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550–1650
Provincializing Europe
Inventing Ireland
Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity 1800–2000
The American Wake of Ireland
The Malleability of Memory and Irish Republican Memory Entrepreneurship
That Coming Storm”
Ireland's 1916 Rising
Black Ireland's Race
Defining Irish Nationalist Anti-Imperialism
The Event and Its Terrors
Thomas Carlyle, Chartism , and the Irish in Early Victorian England
Wildness, Wilderness, and Ireland
Formations of Violence
Bás InEirinn
Necropolitics
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |