List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Spatiality, Movement and Place-Making
 Maruška Svašek 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 García González

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
Maruška Svašek

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

Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space

Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland

Edited by Milena Komarova and Maruška Svašek
Afterword by Dominic Bryan

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“Milena Komarova and Maruška Svašek’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

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.

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.

Maruška Svašek is Professor of Anthropology in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's University, Belfast, and Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. Recent major publications include Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (2007), Emotions and Human Mobility: Ethnographies of Movement (2012), Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions (2012), and (with Birgit Meyer) Creativity in Transition. Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe (2016).

Series: Volume 8, Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement

Subject: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Area: Europe

LC: HN398.N6 E75 2018

BL: DRT ELD.DS.316312

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC026000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Sociology/General; SOC015000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Human Geography

BIC: JH Sociology & anthropology; JFSG Urban communities

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Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space

Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland

Edited by Milena Komarova and Maruška Svašek
Afterword by Dominic Bryan

Series: Volume 8, Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement

Subject: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Area: Europe

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Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space

Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland

Edited by Milena Komarova and Maruška SvašekAfterword by Dominic Bryan

Series: Volume 8, Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement

Subject: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Area: Europe

Edited by Milena Komarova and Maruška Svašek
Afterword by Dominic Bryan