Irish/ness Is All Around Us

Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland

Bibliographic Data

ID19906855
AuthorsOlaf Zenker (0000-0002-4484-3718, Max Planck Society, corresponding author)
Year2022
Publication date2022-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueIrish/ness Is All Around Us (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1515/9780857459145
OpenAlexW628628127
ISBN9780857459145
Open LibraryOL38686357M
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language, music, dance and sports. The author's theoretical approach to ethnicity and ethnic revivals presents an expanded explanatory framework for the social (re)production of ethnicity, theorizing the mutual interrelations between representations and cultural practices regarding their combined capacity to engender ethnic revivals. Relevant not only to readers with an interest in the intricacies of the Northern Irish situation, this book also appeals to a broader readership in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history and political science concerned with the mechanisms behind ethnonational conflict and the politics of culture and identity in general

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Celtic languages · Ethnic group · Identity (music) · Irish · Linguistics · Minority language · Political science · Politics · Prologue · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · English language · English language, dialects · Group identity · ireland · northern ireland

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