Irish Postcolonial Studies, 1980-2021

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ID4053680
AuthorsJoe Cleary
Year2022
Volume2022
Issue143
Pages15-31
Publication date2022-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRadical History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/01636545-9566062
OpenAlexW4281724018
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited23

This essay contests the idea that Irish postcolonial studies is a diminished field in contemporary Ireland, instead contending that it has been a sustained and significant critical force in Irish studies for over four decades and will likely remain so. The Irish "decade of centenaries," international protests against institutional racism, and "decolonizing the university" controversies have brought issues of colonialism, racism, and empire to new prominence in Irish society and encouraged the take-up of postcolonial critique in Irish historiography, political studies, and other disciplines. The essay surveys the achievements and limitations of Irish postcolonial studies, primarily in the field of cultural analysis, since the 1980s and concludes with an assessment of major challenges ahead. The crises of contemporary global capitalism, it suggests, will impel postcolonial studies not just to engage received histories of empire and anti-imperial struggle but also to consider current conjunctures in terms of postcapitalist futures

Capitalism · Colonialism · Empire · Globalism · Historiography · Irish · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Racism · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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