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Irish Travellers: Racism and the Politics of Culture (Anthropological Horizons)
Jane Helleiner
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Paperback. Helleiner's study documents anti-Traveller racism in Ireland and explores the ongoing realities of Traveller life as well as the production and reproduction of contemporary Traveller collective identity and culture. Series: Anthropological Horizons. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
The Travelling People constitute a Gypsy-like minority population in Ireland that has been a long-standing target of racism and assimilative state settlement policies. Using archival and ethnographic research, Jane Helleiner's study documents longstanding anti-Traveller racism in Ireland and explores the ongoing realities of Traveller life. Through analyses of constructions of Traveller origins, local government records, the provincial press, and debates of the Irish parliament, a history of local and national anti-Traveller discourse and practice in the independent Irish state is revealed and linked to the legitimation and reproduction of other social inequalities, including those of class, gender, and ... Read more
The Travelling People constitute a Gypsy-like minority population in Ireland that has been a long-standing target of racism and assimilative state settlement policies. Using archival and ethnographic research, Jane Helleiner's study documents longstanding anti-Traveller racism in Ireland and explores the ongoing realities of Traveller life. Through analyses of constructions of Traveller origins, local government records, the provincial press, and debates of the Irish parliament, a history of local and national anti-Traveller discourse and practice in the independent Irish state is revealed and linked to the legitimation and reproduction of other social inequalities, including those of class, gender, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Series
Anthropological Horizons
Condition
New
Weight
436g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802086280
SKU
V9780802086280
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About Jane Helleiner
Jane Helleiner is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Brock University.
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