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This article, by Brian Graham, is a lengthy review of

Leslie Clarkson and Margaret Crawford
Famine and Disease in Ireland
5 volumes
Hardcover: 2000 pages
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd (1 Jun 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1851967915
ISBN-13: 978-1851967919=20

(See also another review
Famine and disease in Ireland Edited by Leslie Clarkson and E. Margaret
Crawford
BRENDA COLLINS
The Economic History Review, Vol. 59, Issue 3, pp. 644-646, August 2006)

Journal of Historical Geography
Volume 33, Issue 1 , January 2007, Pages 200-206

Copyright =A9 2006 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
Review article

The past and present of the Great Irish Famine

Brian Graham a, E-mail The Corresponding Author

aSchool of Environmental Sciences, University of Ulster, Cromore Road,
Coleraine, Northern Ireland BT52 1SA, UK

Available online 22 December 2006.

Opening paragraphs...
Edited by two highly respected economic historians, Leslie Clarkson and
Margaret Crawford, Famine and Disease in Ireland is a five-volume =
compendium
of various texts set in facsimile and ranging in date from 1727=961728 =
to
1856. In a sense, it is a companion set of sources to Clarkson and
Crawford's earlier book, Feast and Famine: A History of Food and =
Nutrition
in Ireland.1 The texts have been selected (although this has to be =
inferred
from the brief editorial commentary) because they place the Great Famine =
in
a broader context of hunger and fever which occurred in Ireland over
centuries preceding the cataclysmic events of the 1840s. The Great Irish
Famine is one of the better documented famines in history, not least =
because
of the rich local oral memories later collected by the Irish Folklore
Commission.2 As Cormac =D3 Gr=E1da has remarked, Irish historians have, =
however,
been wary of this oral tradition.3 The present collection is very much =
in
that vein with its focus on written sources and rational, scientific
explanations. But Clarkson and Crawford point also to a contemporary
resonance for their texts, arguing that this historical experience of =
famine
is relevant to parts of Africa and Asia which display at least some of =
the
features evident in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century.

It is in this latter way that Famine and Disease intersects with the =
wider
debate, not just on the causes of the Great Famine but also on its =
meaning.
Until the early 1990s, the Great Famine of 1845=961849 stood as a =
paradox in
Irish historiography. It was, as =D3 Gr=E1da argues, the main event in =
Irish
history, =91still vividly etched in Irish and Irish-American folk =
memory=92 yet
=91Irish historians tended to shy away from the topic=92, resulting in =
the
persistence of an overly simplifying =91populist-nationalist=92 =
discourse in
which the Famine and its associated mortality were =91almost entirely =
due to a
negligent government and cruel landlords.=924 Since these comments were
written, we have seen the sesquicentary of the Famine which began in =
1995
and was marked by the commissioning of a plethora of commemorative =
monuments
in Ireland, North America and Australia.5 These embrace both an array of
representational practices and also use the Famine to portray different
messages. While Roy Foster regards this activity in Ireland as no more =
than
a cynical exploitation of the Famine, the wave of commemoration being
=91linked to exploiting tourist sites and attracting interest from the =
Irish
diaspora=92,6 more widely, it can be seen as portraying three rather =
different
narratives. As Kelleher argues, the question as to whom or what Famine
memorials commemorate is not one that is easily answered.7



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From: Anthony McCann
Subject: Folk and Healing Arts Ph.D. Research Opportunity
To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List

Hello and Happy New Year!

I was wondering if people on the list could send this around to anyone =
who
might be interested ...? Any help is much appreciated.

Bua agus beannacht, Anthony McCann Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages
University of Ulster, Magee campus=20

*************************************************************************=
***
Folk and Healing Arts Ph.D. Research Opportunity

The University of Ulster invites applications for admission to full-time
research studies commencing in September 2007. Awards may be made =
available
for suitably-qualified selected applicants.

Research supervision leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) =
is
offered in: Craft and Crafting in the Folk and Healing Arts in Ireland
Proposals are sought for interdisciplinary doctoral research at the =
Academy
for Irish Cultural Heritages under the general theme of =93Craft and =
Crafting
in the Folk and Healing Arts in Ireland=94.=20

Proposals may focus on any of the following: traditional crafts; folk
healing; holistic therapies; mediumship; fortune telling; local =
spiritual
practices; traditional ethics and wisdom; identity, power, and politics; =
the
personal experience of practitioners; commodification and social change. =
The
methodological and theoretical approaches for this studentship will be =
drawn
primarily from anthropology, folklore, ethnology, sociology, and social
ecology.=20

The Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages
The Academy was established in December 2000 to act as the investigative
engine integrating the University of Ulster=92s research vision and =
strategy
into the enormous changes occurring in Irish culture both within the =
island
and abroad. As such it represented a unique departure in scholarship and
research in Irish historical, heritage, linguistic and literary studies. =
In
its current format the Academy defines its mission as follows: =91to be =
an
internationally recognised centre of excellence for interdisciplinary
research on cultural heritages, both material and non-material, in an
international context with particular emphasis on cultural heritages
connected with the island of Ireland=92. Its current logo contains the =
three
terms =93Irish, interdisciplinary, international=94 which define the =
research
context for all members.

Part-time Study Applications to undertake part-time study towards the =
degree
of Doctor of Philosophy are also welcomed by the University.

How to Apply
To be considered for entry, applicants should hold, or expect to hold by =
15
August 2007 a first or upper second class honours degree in a subject
relevant to the proposed research topic. Specific project details and
application materials are available on the University web site at
http://www.ulster.ac.uk/researchstudy
=20
The closing date for the receipt of applications for full-time study and
associated awards will be 30 March 2007 Interviews will form part of the
selection process and are likely to be held during the period late April =
to
early May 2007. Selected applicants will be contacted with further =
details
shortly after the closing date. For further information please contact:=20

Dr. Anthony McCann, Lecturer in Contemporary Folk Culture, Academy for =
Irish
Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster, Magee campus
at.mccann[at]ulster.ac.uk +44 (0)28 71375300


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Subject: Political Psychology, Volume 28 Issue 1, February 2007,
Special Issue, Northern Ireland, TOC and Introduction,
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A number of alerts came in and made me go and look at this journal's web
page...
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0162-895X&site=1

This is a special issue edited by Orla Muldoon...

Congratulations to Orla and her colleagues on the appearance of this
interesting special issue...

TOC and Introduction material listed below...

I'll review the Titles and Abstracts and see if more detail should be added
here...

P.O'S.


Political Psychology
Volume 28 Issue 1 Page 1 - February 2007
Special Issue: Northern Ireland
Editor: Orla Muldoon

1
No War, No Peace: Northern Ireland after the Agreement
Roger Mac Ginty, Orla T. Muldoon, Neil Ferguson


13
A Disparity of Esteem: Relative Group Status in Northern Ireland after the
Belfast Agreement
Roger Mac Ginty, Pierre du Toit

33
"For God and for the Crown": Contemporary Political and Social Attitudes
among Orange Order Members in Northern Ireland
James W. McAuley, Jonathan Tonge

53
Cross-Community Contact, Perceived Status Differences, and Intergroup
Attitudes in Northern Ireland: The Mediating Roles of Individual-level
versus Group-level Threats and the Moderating Role of Social Identification
Nicole Tausch, Miles Hewstone, Jared Kenworthy, Ed Cairns, Oliver Christ

69
Rebels' Perspectives of the Legacy of Past Violence and of the Current Peace
in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland: An Interpretative Phenomenological
Analysis
Mark Burgess, Neil Ferguson, Ian Hollywood

89
Religious and National Identity after the Belfast Good Friday Agreement
Orla T. Muldoon, Karen Trew, Jennifer Todd, Nathalie Rougier, Katrina
McLaughlin

105
The Minority-Majority Conundrum in Northern Ireland: An Orange Order
Perspective
Clifford Stevenson, Susan Condor, Jackie Abell




Political Psychology
Volume 28 Issue 1 Page 1 - February 2007
doi:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2007.00548.x
Volume 28 Issue 1


No War, No Peace: Northern Ireland after the Agreement
Roger Mac Ginty1 , Orla T. Muldoon2 and Neil Ferguson3

In 1998 a historic agreement, commonly known as the Belfast or Good Friday
Agreement, formed the basis of a negotiated settlement for the future of
Northern Ireland. Since that time the level of violence in Northern Ireland
has reduced but many problematic issues related to governance, sectarianism,
and community relations remain on the political agenda and have destabilized
the post-peace accord environment. Many of these issues can be viewed as
either causes or consequences of the protracted conflict in Northern
Ireland. This special issue examines some of these issues from a political
psychology perspective. Economic, political, social, and psychological
factors that have supported and hindered progress towards peace and
stability are considered. While the paramilitary ceasefires have remained
intact and certain aspects of life in Northern Ireland have been
transformed, the road to peace has been hindered by both political and
psychological intransigence. This paper offers an opportunity to reevaluate
conceptualisations of conflict and its management in chronic situations,
where divisions are deeply embedded within societal structures and
relationships, and consider factors that may act as barriers to the
development of a lasting peace.

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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

As we start the count down to=20
the Ninth Annual Grian Conference
March 1-3, 2007
Glucksman Ireland House
New York University

I recall that Kerri Anne Burke's email original email, about the GRIAN
conference in New York, mentions the work of Kathryn Conrad.

Book information and web sites, below...

P.O=92S.


Locked in the Family Cell
Gender, Sexuality, and Political Agency in Irish National Discourse
Kathryn Conrad

Irish Studies in Literature and Culture, Michael Patrick Gillespie, =
Series
Editor

May 2004
LC: 2003020573 HQ
196 pp., 6 x 9, 7 b/w photos
ISBN 0-299-19650-X Cloth $45.00 s

"[Conrad] most convincingly answers the question of why gender and =
sexuality
matter in political discourse."=97Nancy Curtin, author of The United =
Irishmen

This is the first book on Ireland to provide a sustained and
interdisciplinary analysis of gender, sexuality, nationalism, the public =
and
private spheres, and the relationship between these categories of =
analysis
and action. Kathryn Conrad exposes the assumptions and effects of =
national
discourses in Ireland and their reliance on a limited and limiting =
vision of
the family: the heterosexual family cell.

Kathryn Conrad is associate professor of English at the University of
Kansas. This is her first book.

http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2594.htm

http://people.ku.edu/~kconrad/



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The lower case in 'irish expectations' is the journal designer's whim. All
the titles are in lower case.

This article reviews the 2 books, Garvin and the O'Hagan & Newman, but
sashays into a discussion of Joe Lee, (1989) Ireland, 1912-1985.

P.O'S.


European Political Science (2006) 5, 434-440.
doi:10.1057/palgrave.eps.2210096
irish explanations

Books reviewed:
Preventing the Future: Why was Ireland so Poor for so Long?

Tom Garvin
(Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2004), xiv+278pp., ISBN: 0717137716

The Economy of Ireland: National and Sectoral Policy Issues

J. O'Hagan and C. Newman (eds.) (9th edition) (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan,
2005), xvi+304pp., ISBN: 0717138402

Michael Keating a

aDepartment of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute,
Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccettini 9, I-50016 San Domenico di Fiesole,
Florence, Italy. E-mail: Michael.Keating[at]iue.it

Opening paragraphs...

Ireland in recent years has provided a rich site for social scientists,
exhibiting so many of the conditions of late modernity, challenging received
ideas, mixing apparently conflicting traits and posing new questions. The
Celtic Tiger has had growth rates comparable with its Asian counterparts in
a country associated for decades with stagnation and poverty. Social change
has been so rapid that from being a case for pre-modernity, it now serves
for studies of post-modernity, not to mention post-industrialism,
post-nationalism and all the other 'posts' around, without the usual
intervening stage of modernist 'normality'. It is an advanced and stable
western democracy, but which harbours a guerrilla insurgency and an
unresolved national question whose roots are variously placed in the
twelfth, the seventeenth and the nineteenth century.

Explanations of the Irish economic miracle have been legion but they are
mostly ad hoc and frequently over-determined.
Social change has been so rapid that from being a case for pre-modernity, it
now serves for studies of post-modernity, not to mention post-industrialism,
post-nationalism and all the other 'posts' around, without the usual
intervening stage of modernist 'normality'.

Everything that has happened since (usually) the mid-1980s is listed and
credited with its share of success. These range from the cultural through
the demographic, the institutional, the political to the more narrowly
economic and external. So it is to do with popular attitudes and a culture
of cooperation; with the reduction of emigration and the youth of the
population; with corporatist bargaining and interest articulation; with
infrastructure investment; with education; with inward investment; with low
taxes; with EU membership and the Structural Funds. Sometimes policy-makers
are given credit; more often, as befits such an eclectic list, it is
attributed to luck. There are several problems with this sort of analysis.

First is the assumption that all the inputs are positive, when we should be
separating out pro and anti-growth factors.

Second, many of the factors credited for growth are the same as those
previously blamed for failure. This is not just a problem in Ireland but
affects many institutionalist or cultural analyses of economic development.
So collectivist attitudes can be condemned as anti-entrepreneurial or
praised as social cooperation. Interest groups can be condemned as
rent-seekers or veto-players, or praised as stakeholders', 'civil society'
and evidence of 'social capital'. 'Corporatism' is bad but 'partnership' is
good. Tradition can be an impediment to growth or a source of positive
self-images. Public intervention can be credited with good or bad effects
depending on the outcome. Lee's magisterial Ireland, 1912-1985 (1989)
completed just when the miracle was about to manifest itself devotes 175
pages to a pessimistic concluding chapter on 'Perspectives', diagnosing
Ireland's deep-seated ills. The key elements - institutions, intelligence,
character and identity - are, in only a slightly different language, those
now credited with the miracle.

Third, there is a lack of comparative analysis that would allow us to assess
the importance of specific factors in the Irish case by looking at how they
work elsewhere. For example, if investment in education is the secret of the
Irish miracle, we should ask why Scotland, which has had this level of
education for decades, has not done as well.

Fourth, much of the debate has been highly partisan. On the one hand,
economic consultants and boosters read their favoured interpretation into
the Irish experience. On the other are those who condemn the experience out
of hand for its socially divisive effects or as an example of global
capitalist exploitation.

Fifth, some people are asking only half the question, in failing to account
for why Ireland did so poorly before the recent boom.

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Happy New Year to everybody.

I report the following from H-net and elsewhere, covering topics which =
are discussed within the IR-D group from time to time. I look for =
information on migrant and dispersed communities, the Irish in the world =
at large, decolonisation and postcolonial societies, varieties of =
English, or national and supranational memory and identity. Sometimes =
the Irish connection is by way of comparison. Entries may be =
abbreviated from the original. Apologies, of course, for duplication.

Reviewed for H-Catholic by Donna Freitas
Jeana DelRosso. _Writing Catholic Women: Contemporary
International Catholic Girlhood Narratives_. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005. x + 203 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-403-96757-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D294251165947127


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MIGRATION AND DIASPORA CULTURAL STUDIES NETWORK (MDCSN)
University of Manchester

CALL FOR PAPERS

Queer Diasporas

Workshop: Friday 25 May 2007, University of Manchester

The diaspora and migration of people, thought and discourses in =
connection with sexuality and transformation of identity in general will =
be the subject of this workshop. This will be approached by discussing =
representations and experiences of migrating desires through examples =
from visual and popular culture, literary studies, and ethnographic and =
sociological work. The workshop will also engage with questions of =
sexual and migration control regimes and look at their connections, =
overlaps and points of articulation.
A further question will be how identities, cultures and spaces are, on =
the
one hand, shaped and transformed and, on the other, constrained and put =
under surveillance in the context of migration and diaspora. We will
approach these questions on different levels:

a. Stories of (forced) Displacement
This takes into consideration the internal migration of homosexually
identified people from rural to urban places, but also the migration =
from
one country to another, as well as the constraints experienced by =
migrants and refugees through migration and asylum regimes worldwide. =
Sources employed would include medical treatises on self identified =
homosexuals, literary accounts and diaries as well as ethnographic =
studies.
b. Diaspora of Thought and Knowledge
The migration of ideas and debates around homosexuality, the LGBT =
movement, and queer theory will be at the centre of our interest. This =
will draw on examples of the migration of medical discourses and =
knowledges of/on homosexuality from their centres of production such as =
Universities, hospitals and psychiatrists' practices, both to other =
geographical locations and to the general public.
c. Queering Identities and Assemblage
The connection between sexual and migration control regimes will also be =
addressed by drawing on actual debates around "queer politics" and
"racialising queer".

Keynote Speaker
Professor Gayatri Gopinath, University of California, Davis (USA).

Offers of presentations, papers, discussion panels, or poster =
presentations are invited for the third workshop of the AHRC-funded =
MDSCN. Contributions are welcome from practitioners, activists and =
academics in all disciplines, and should foreground the following =
topics:
. Sexual and Migration Control Regimes
. Racialising Queer
. Transcultural Encounters and Intimacies
. Queer Genealogies
. Diasporic Affect and Sensation
. Rural and Urban Queer Bodies
. Performance
. Queer Diasporic Media
. Sexology and After
. Post-Queer Identities?
. Queer Diasporas and Globalisation

The Manchester Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network (MDCSN) =
is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. It is a =
collaborative framework for academic research into the cultural =
transformations brought about by the global movement of peoples, =
languages, objects, images, sounds, beliefs and ideas. The network =
embraces a wide range of disciplines, with a strong core in =
language-based disciplines, which gives the network a distinctive, =
internationally comparative dimension, and illuminates the =
interpenetration of cultures from within.

250-word abstracts should be sent by 2 February 2007 to one of the =
following addresses:
Rajinder Dudrah
Rajinder.dudrah[at]manchester.ac.uk
Shirley Tate
s.a.tate[at]leeds.ac.uk
Encarnaci=F3n Guti=E9rrez Rodr=EDguez
e.gutierrez[at]manchester.ac.uk
Christopher Perriam
Christopher.perriam[at]manchester.ac.uk
Margaret Littler
margaret.littler[at]manchester.ac.uk

Workshop Organisers
Dr Rajinder Dudrah, Drama and Screen Studies, University of Manchester
Dr. Shirley Tate, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, =
University of Leeds
Dr. Encarnaci=F3n Guti=E9rrez Rodr=EDguez, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin =
American Studies, University of Manchester
Professor Christopher Perriam, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American
Studies, University of Manchester


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Call for Papers

E/Im/Migration and Culture15-17 September
2007Isik University, Sile (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date: 2006-12-15
Description: Call for Papers E/Im/Migration and Culture 15-17
September 2007 Isik University, Sile (Istanbul, Turkey) Fourth
Cultural Studies Conference Co-organized by the Cultural
Studies Association (Turkey) and the Department of
International Relations of Isik University This a three-day
international confe ...
Contact: E-mail: gpultar[at]kulturad.org
URL: www.kulturad.org
Announcement ID: 154029
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=3D154029



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Am I right in thinking that the Caribbean Irish are little studied?

Title: Caribbean Identities: Exploring Historical and Cultural
Diversity
Date: 2007-03-31
Description: The Caribbean region is home to various groups
Asians, Amerindians, Africans and Europeans but unfortunately
very little research and academic publications exist on the
complexity of the notion of identity in the region. Contact: =
harero[at]horniman.ac.uk
URL: horniman.ac.uk
Announcement ID: 154203
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=3D154203


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Title: Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme for
research on the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry in
Central Europe and in exile
Date: 2007-02-01
Description: This fellowship programme intents to foster research
on the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry in Central
Europe and in exile. There are a maximum of 12 PhD scholarships
and 2 post-doctoral scholarships available for the academic
year 2007/8 (October 2007 to September 2008).=20
...
Contact: leobaeck[at]studienstiftung.de
URL: www.studienstiftung.de/leo-baeck-programm.html

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FROM the IFTN Newsletter and web site...

P.O'S.


Byrne to Chair New York Irish Cultural Group
02-Jan-07

Irish actor Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects, Vanity Fair) has accepted =
the
Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism John O=92Donoghue=92s invitation to =
chair a
new working group of representatives of the Irish/Irish-American =
business
community that will establish a new Irish Cultural Centre in New York.

The working group is to advise the Irish Government on the enhancement =
of
the promotion of Irish culture in New York with their primary focus =
being
the development of the project from an infrastructural perspective. A
consultative forum comprising of artists and those engaged in the arts =
world
in New York and Ireland will be established in the coming months to work
alongside the group and to feed into the overall process of developing =
the
cultural centre.

Minister O=92Donoghue has specifically requested that the group also =
examine
the potential of the proposed facility to contribute to Ireland=92s =
economic
prosperity given his expectation that it will become the focal point for
Irish culture in New York.

=93Ireland and generations of its people have made a significant =
contribution
to American culture not just in the arts but in business and politics. =
It is
only right and fitting that we celebrate this proud tradition and all =
that
is unique about heritage and modern Ireland by developing an Irish =
cultural
centre as a permanent presence in what is the capital of the world,=94 =
said
Minister O=92Donoghue. =93Gabriel Byrne has shown unstinting enthusiasm =
for this
project and I am delighted that he has accepted the invitation to chair =
the
working group,=94 he added.

Meeting the Minister in Dublin, Gabriel Byrne commented; =93As an Irish =
person
who has lived in New York for a long number of years I have always felt =
that
there should be a focal point in the city to promote Irish culture and =
to
celebrate the heavy fingerprints and footprints that Irish people have =
left
on American culture. I am excited about the possibilities that this =
project
presents and to accept the task of chairing a working group which will
include individuals who will be equally committed and enthusiastic about
realising those possibilities=94.


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None of these writers seem to want to identify themselves...

P.O'S.


Boru, B. (2006), "Ryanair: the C=FA' Chulainn of civil aviation", =
Journal of
Strategic Marketing, ISSN 0965-254X, Vol. 14 No.1, pp.45-55.

Summary from
Title: Fight or flight?: Ryanair, Southwest Airlines and post-merger US
Airways and America West=20
Author(s):=20
Journal: Strategic Direction=20
ISSN: 0258-0543=20
Year: 2007 Volume: 23 Issue: 1 Page: 12 - 15=20
DOI: 10.1108/02580540710716536=20
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing LimitedArticle,=20

Ryanair's bloody inspiration

A startling success story within the new geography of airline =
competition
has been Ryanair. In Europe they are writing the rules of low cost air
travel. If there is a new battle for Europe's skies, they can rightly be
revered as an effective corporate warrior. In a competitive world they =
are
not lacking an edge, competitive or otherwise.

For many business leaders the Chinese strategist Sun-Tzu is the =
inspiration.
At Ryanair it is the Irish chieftain C=FA' Chulainn, an appropriate =
choice for
a Celtic tiger. The mythical C=FA' Chulainn showed no fear, and =
single-handed
slaughter is something of a signature of the stories still told. Recent
readers of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes may be familiar with some of =
the
craic.

In more modern parlance, he pursued a =93hardball strategy=94 so beloved =
of
Ryanair and their modern day chieftain Michael O'Leary, who took over =
the
leadership Tony Ryan's sideline business and created a giant beast. A
hardball strategy being one that requires a relentless focus on =
competitive
advantage, striving for extreme competitive advantage, attacking but
indirectly by stealth, exploiting people's will to win, and keeping it
legal, that is knowing the caution zone.

Put into practice this has played out as:

Crucifying costs =96 the ruthless pursuit of cost reductions, from =
running a
single type of aircraft to cutting out travel agents and their =
percentages,
through to treating former costs (like food) as revenue generating
opportunities;=20
Eviscerate prices =96 charging very, very low prices, with sales =
promotions on
top of everyday low prices, even predicting the end of airfares with the
reinvention of the industry as a delivery business not a service with =
value
on its own;=20
Look ma, no loudhailer =96 following in the Richard Branson tradition of =
using
PR and publicity stunts, with no stunt too tacky in getting across =
Ryanair's
low prices message;=20
Torture customers =96 figuratively at least as bargain basic prices are =
often
hard to find in reality, refunds are rarely paid, the attitude is to put =
it
kindly laissez faire;=20
Infuriate all comers =96 Ryanair is tough on suppliers, being the most
demanding customer imaginable, while operating quite differently in =
response
to their own customers;=20
Cultivate contradictions =96 the formula may seem hard to read but =
cultivate
contradictions is not a bad summary, from complaining about unnecessary
legal actions while being quick to go to law to a range of activities =
that
make relationships with Ryanair of the love-hate variety.=20
Fearlessness and a thirst for winning are at the heart of almost =
everything.
Their role model, mythical or not, would recognize the approach.

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Religious and National Identity after the Belfast Good Friday
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Political Psychology
Volume 28 Issue 1 Page 89 - February 2007
doi:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2007.00553.x
Volume 28 Issue 1


Religious and National Identity after the Belfast Good Friday Agreement
Orla T. Muldoon1 , Karen Trew2 , Jennifer Todd3 , Nathalie Rougier4 and
Katrina McLaughlin5

National and religious identification processes can be seen as the basis of
the conflict in Northern Ireland, and over the course of the conflict
preferred social and political identities became increasingly oppositional
and entrenched. This paper reviews this evidence using population-level
studies of self-categorized national and religious identity. In an attempt
to explore the bases of these identities, two interrelated qualitative
studies examining the constructions of national and religious identification
are reported. The findings presented suggest the continuing predominance of
national and religious identities that have generally been constructed as
opposing. Evidence of complete overlap of the identities is evidenced in
conflation of religion and nationality in adolescents' essays. Theoretical
sampling of adults living on the border between Northern Ireland, the
republic of Ireland, and those in mixed marriages highlight the strategic
use of national and religious identities that may act to support divisions
in post-Agreement Northern Ireland.


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The Minority-Majority Conundrum in Northern Ireland: An Orange
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Political Psychology
Volume 28 Issue 1 Page 105 - February 2007
doi:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2007.00554.x
Volume 28 Issue 1


The Minority-Majority Conundrum in Northern Ireland: An Orange Order
Perspective
Clifford Stevenson1 , Susan Condor2 and Jackie Abell3

Researchers have argued that, depending on the framing of the Northern
Ireland conflict, each group could either be a minority or a majority
relative to the other. This complicates macrosocial explanations of the
conflict which make specific predictions on the basis of minority or
majority positions. The present paper argues that this conundrum may have
arisen from the inherent variability in microidentity processes that do not
fit easily with macroexplanations. In this paper the rhetoric of relative
group position is analysed in political speeches delivered by leading
members of an influential Protestant institution in Northern Ireland. It is
apparent that minority and majority claims are not fixed but are flexibly
used to achieve local rhetorical goals. Furthermore, the speeches differ
before and after the Good Friday Agreement, with a reactionary "hegemonic"
Unionist position giving way to a "majority-rights power sharing" argument
and a "pseudo-minority" status giving way to a "disempowered minority"
argument. These results suggest a view of the Northern Ireland conflict as a
struggle for "symbolic power," i.e., the ability to flexibly define the
intergroup situation to the ingroup's advantage.


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Arms and the Circassian Woman: Frances Browne's The Star of
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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This item has fallen into our nets...

It will interest the 'orientalism' folk...

And since you do not see all that much about Frances Browne...

P.O'S.


McLean, Thomas
"Arms and the Circassian Woman: Frances Browne's "The Star of Atteghei""
Victorian Poetry - Volume 41, Number 3, Fall 2003, pp. 295-318
West Virginia University Press

Excerpt
IN DECEMBER 1916 A WRITER FOR THE IRISH BOOK LOVER LAMENTED THAT THE
centenary of the birth of Frances Brown, once known far and wide as 'the
blind girl of Donegal,' which occurred on 16th January last, did not elicit
a single line in any journal, as far as I am aware, showing, alas! how
transient a thing is a literary reputation." Though Brown's name is "sought
in vain in the 'Dictionary of National Biography,'" the anonymous writer
believed "our northern province is not so rich in women writers that it can
afford to neglect one, who, in her day, brought to it some degree of fame,
as much by her widely acknowledged abilities as her heroic struggle to
overcome the results of her early affliction." (1) Almost ninety years
later, the life and work of Frances Brown (or Browne, as it is more often
written) remain neglected, though her biography is as extraordinary as any
writer's in the nineteenth century, and her poetry evinces a strong personal
voice and a rich variety of subjects. While Browne's nationalistic lyric
"Songs of Our Land" was a particular favorite in the Victorian era, other
poems feature Muslim, Jewish or Christian protagonists, and her settings
cover five continents. Her longest works include "The Vision of Schwartz,"
about a twelfth-century monk's search for the philosopher's stone, and the
subject of this essay, The Star of Atteghei, a tragic romance set in
nineteenth-century Circassia. Such a range of historical and geographical
interests is unusual though not unique among women poets of the 1840s; but
it becomes rather startling when we consider that Frances Browne became
blind before the age of two and spent the first thirty years of her life far
from the literary centers of Ireland or Britain.

Browne's lifelong fascination with world history certainly influenced her
choice of subject matter, but it was not simply a taste for the exotic that
inspired her to choose Circassia as the setting and subject of her longest
poem. A number of travelogues describing the Caucasus had recently appeared,
and British newspapers regularly reported the Circassians' struggles with
Russia from the mid1830s onwards, reaching something of a peak in early
1844, the year The Star of Atteghei appeared. Browne's work is the major
poetic response in the English language to a conflict that resulted in the
forced removal of more than one million Circassians and Turkic Caucasians
from their homeland, a conflict directly related to Russia's ongoing
struggle in Chechnya. Browne draws inspiration from Lord Byron's Eastern
Tales of the 1810s and from the psychologically-charged portraits of women
crafted in the following two decades by Felicia Hemans and Letitia Landon;
but she extends her predecessors' work by situating her mysterious and
courageous heroine in a narrative based on recent historical events. Thus
her poem is also an intriguing expression of nineteenth-century concepts of
nationalism, bringing together three nations whose struggles for
independence and national identity were well known in the Victorian era:
Circassia, Poland, and Ireland. In doing so it also associates Russia and
England as fellow oppressors....



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Theo Engelen and Jan Kok

Subject: cfp: History of the Family on migration

Dear colleagues,

As the new editorial team of the History of the Family. An International
Quarterly, we hope to draw your attention to the opportunities for
publication that our journal offers. Remaining dedicated to the
(interdisciplinary and comparative) study of the history of the family
and the life course, we aim to publish in the future more explorations
of the role of the family in migration history, for example family
networks in chain migration, migrants' support of family at home and
inheritance practices and family dispersal. Already, the journal has
published interesting work in this field, e.g. Michel Oris, 'The history
of migration as a chapter in the history of the European rural family:
An overview', vol. 8 (2003)2, 187-215 (in a special issue on rural
migration); Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga, 'Basque women and urban migration
in the 19th century', vol 10 (2005)2, 99-117 and Arjen de Haan,
'Migration as Family Strategy: Rural-Urban Labor Migration in India
During the Twentieth Century', vol 4 (1997)2, 481-505.

For the next volume (12), we still have some space left and we encourage
those interested to submit draft articles as soon as possible. We also
invite suggestions for new special issues at the intersection of
migration and family history.


More information on the journal's scientific mission is given below.

We hope to welcome you as authors soon,

Theo Engelen and Jan Kok

From January 1st, 2007, The History of the Family. An International
Quarterly will be edited by Theo Engelen and Jan Kok. Engelen holds a
chair in Historical Demography at the Radboud University Nijmegen (the
Netherlands) and Jan Kok is senior researcher at the Virtual Knowledge
Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Amsterdam, the
Netherlands). The editorial policy of the new team builds on the vision
of the The History of the Family's founding editors, Tamara K. Hareven
and Andrejs Plakans. Thus, our peer reviewed journal will publish essays
submitted by individual authors as well as special themed issues on new
developments in the history of the family, the household and kinship,
marriage, childhood and youth, life course and aging, and historical
demography as it relates to the family.

In addition to those fields traditionally published in the journal, we
also welcome studies that experiment with opportunities created by new
sources for family and life course history research, such as large
databases, special websites, social surveys and digitized
(auto)biographical material or newspapers. Likewise, we encourage
articles on new methods for analysis and new research practices, such as
comparative international research groups. Also, we welcome critical
reflection on the categories and concepts employed in historical
demography and family history, as well as essays on the relation between
quantitative and qualitative approaches.

As always, The History of the Family strongly encourages articles on
comparative research across various cultures and societies. We are keen
on attracting more work from East and Southern Asia, Africa and Latin
America. All aspects of family history are of interest to us, but we
would like to make a special call for contributions dealing with the
role of the family in migration, religion and family, and the impact of
(wage) labour on family relations. Likewise, we invite scholars working
on early modern history as well as contemporary history to expand the
chronological scope of The History of the Family.

The History of the Family remains dedicated to interdisciplinary
research; it publishes articles on historical anthropology, historical
sociology, economic history and psychology as they relate to the family
and the life course.

The new editorial team invites authors to use the online submission and
peer review system of The History of the Family (
http://ees.elsevier.com/hisfam/ ) in
order to speed up the publication process.
You may also contact us directly at
t.engelen[at]let.ru.nl
jan.kok[at]vks.knaw.nl

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No B=E9arla

(I first launched this message with 'non standard characters' in the =
subject
line, and have had to withdraw it... And send it again...)

At the new year the European Union gained 2 new members, 3 new =
languages,
and one more alphabet...

One of the languages was Irish.

For a summary see...
http://euobserver.com/9/23134

The other small languages of Europe are watching with interest. And a =
web
search will turn up many mentions, and some discussion. I have not seen
much in the way of unexpected discussion...

But this item in today's Guardian caught my eye...

P.O'S.


C=E1 Bhfuil Na Gaeilg eoir=ED? *

Gaelic is the first official language of Ireland, with 25% of the =
population
claiming to speak it. But can that true? To put it to the test, =
Manch=E1n
Magan set off round the country with one self-imposed handicap - to =
never
utter a word of English

(*English translation: Where are all the Gaelic speakers?)

Friday January 5, 2007
The Guardian

There is something absurd and rather tragic about setting out on a =
journey
around a country, knowing that if you speak the language of that country =
you
will not be understood. It is even more absurd when the country is your
native one and you are speaking its native language.

Irish (Gaelic) is the first official language of Ireland. We have been
speaking it for 2,500 years, right up until the British decided it would =
be
easier to govern us if we spoke their language (and then outlawed the =
use of
Gaelic in schools) in the 19th century. We, in turn, soon realised that =
our
only hope of advancement was through English, and we - or at least the =
half
of the population that survived the Famine - jettisoned Irish in a =
matter of
decades. Had it not been for the Celtic Revival that accompanied =
Ireland's
fi ght for independence in the early 20th century, the language would =
have
probably died out by now. Today, a quarter of the population claim they
speak it regularly. I have always suspected this figure and to test its
accuracy I decided to travel around the country speaking only Irish to =
see
how I would get on.

Full text at...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1983434,00.html

=B7 The TV series based on Manch=E1n's journey, No B=E9arla, begins on =
Sunday at
9.30pm on TG4.

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List members may have encountered articles entitled "De Valera helped=20
Nazi war criminal" in /The Sunday Times /Ireland edition, and "How Dev's=20
Ireland became safe haven for fugitive Nazis" in the /Irish Independent.=20
/Both articles are by Nicola Tallant and appear in the January 7th=20
editions, and, using the forthcoming documentary series /Ireland's Nazis=20
/(itself quite a sensationalist title), both quote me regarding Irish=20
postwar asylum cases. Both articles are also, unfortunately, wrong and=20
misrepresentative in several important areas.

This is my actual quote from the script of /Ireland's Nazis /(Programme=20
One), as transcribed by Tile Films director Keith Farrell:
> The former head of the Breton nationalist party Raymond De Laport=20
> [sic] reportedly had an interview with De Valera in which De Valera=20
> advised him to continue using the aliases with which he'd entered=20
> Ireland so that then if the French asked De Valera is this man in the=20
> country De Valera could truthfully answer "NO".=20
That became this in /The Sunday Times /article/:/
> Dan Leach of the University of Melbourne reveals that the former head=20
> of the Breton Nationalist Party met de Valera to discuss Lain=E9. "De=20
> Valera advised him (that Lain=E9 should) continue using his alias so=20
> that if the French asked him if Lain=E9 was in the country he could=20
> truthfully answer 'no'," Leach said.

Two different people; two different subjects of discussion. There is no=20
evidence De Valera ever met Bezen Perrot leader and militant Breton=20
collaborator C=E9lestin Lain=E9 (aka Neven Henaff). The discussion was=20
between De Valera and Raymond Delaporte, and 'Dev's advice was for=20
Delaporte alone. The fact that the film's editor has placed this quote=20
in the middle of a discussion about Lain=E9 does not change the fact that=
=20
Lain=E9 was NOT the subject of the discussion. I certainly did not mentio=
n=20
Lain=E9 in this context, as you can plainly observe.

Delaporte was a moderate nationalist, so obviously his meeting with De=20
Valera lacks the kind of sensationalist verve Tallant requires to beat=20
up her story.

In addition, Tallant calls all this "new research". Wrong. As I said in=20
my interview, the account of Delaporte's meeting with the Taoiseach=20
appears in Yann Fou=E9r=E9's memoirs /La Maison du Connemara, /published=20
some 12 years ago.

In her /Irish Independent /piece, Tallant makes further errors,=20
including referring to me as "Professor" Dan Leach. This will be=20
interesting news to my department, as a simple Google search would have=20
revealed that I am a PhD candidate.

She goes on to describe Lain=E9 as a "French extremist". He was a Breton=20
nationalist.

She also avers that during the war he would "take young men and women=20
into the forests at night to torture and then execute them". This is=20
untrue. Lain=E9 was the political leader and driving force behind the=20
Bezen Perrot, but he was not its field commander and never personally=20
tortured nor executed anyone. It is true that the unit itself is alleged=20
to have executed and tortured Resistance fighters, but no-one has ever=20
found any evidence that Lain=E9 himself was involved in this behaviour.

The /Sunday Times /article can be accessed here:=20
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-2534680,00.html

The /Irish Independent /piece may require registration with Unison.ie,=20
but can be found here:=20
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=3D36&si=3D1750505&=
issue_id=3D15078&eid=3D265882


Daniel Leach
PhD Candidate
Department of History
University of Melbourne
d.leach[at]pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

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irish theatre MAGAZINE online

VOLUME VI, ISSUE 29 WINTER 2006
www.irishtheatremagazine.ie

VOLUME VI, ISSUE 28AUTUMN 2006

FROM THE WEB SITE...

editorial

BREAKING OUT OF ISOLATION

Our final issue of 2006 inevitably features some retrospection, casting a
critical eye over the autumn festival season in Dublin. After the much-noted
paucity of Irish productions in the Dublin Theatre Festival (DTF) last year,
this year's event struck a better balance, although it laid itself open to
the criticism of putting some new work on stage before it was ready. Four of
the Irish productions are discussed in detail, along with two international
shows, in an edited transcript of our annual ITM Critics' Forum. Additional
DTF reviews, as well as comprehensive Dublin Fringe Festival reviews, are
published on our website.

Rough Magic's Associate Director, Tom Creed, spoke from the audience at the
Forum about the recurring theme he perceived in many of the DTF productions,
in both content and form: a sense of emotional numbness and of disconnected,
isolated lives. He elaborates on this in ThinkTank.

Yet if that's the philosophical mood European playwrights and designers are
reflecting in their work, the impulse among theatre artists here seems to be
to battle against it. Solidarity and a sense of strength in numbers are
currently prevailing, as touring networks (NASC and NOMAD) help venues and
companies support each other, and directors are banding together in a new
professional association. As Rachel Andrews reports, possibilities of
practitioners breaking out of the company model and pooling production and
administrative resources are being actively explored - led by Project Arts
Centre. It's fitting, as it celebrates its fortieth birthday, that Project
continues to strive for the collective empowerment envisaged for it by its
radical founders back in autumn 1966. Many Happy Returns.

Comments on anything in this issue may be sent to:
editor[at]irishtheatremagazine.ie

contents

WHAT'S NEWS?
Peter Crawley reports.

OPENING NIGHTS
Mark your diaries for the winter months ahead.

ENTRANCES AND EXITS
Tanya Dean notes movements behind the scenes in Irish theatre.

SOUNDING BOARD
Padraic McIntyre argues that companies outside Dublin need to be supported.

THINKTANK
Tom Creed comments on recent productions that capture a prevailing social
malaise.

OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FRONT ROW
At the seventh annual ITM Critics' Forum, our critics presented their views
on a range of productions from Dublin Theatre Festival 2006. We present an
edited transcript.

NIGHTS ON THE FRINGE
Our insomniac reviewers sought out the best Irish productions that Dublin
Fringe Festival '06 had to offer.

OUR FLEXIBLE FRIENDS
Do you have to form a company if you want to make theatre? Rachel Andrews
reports on a recent Theatre Forum seminar about alternative models of
production.

TAKING NOTES FROM THE COMPOSERS
Some of the most talented theatre directors in Ireland have recently taken
the plunge into opera. They talk to Sara Keating about what they're bringing
to the art form - and what they have learned.

REVIEWS
Our reviewers assess the latest productions from around the country.

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Protestant Alienation in Northern Ireland: A Political, Cultural and
Geographical Examination / Southern, N.
JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES - 2007 ; VOL 33; NUMB 1 ; Pages:
159-180

Abstract:

It is claimed that the Protestant community in Northern Ireland has become
increasingly alienated. Unionist politicians, Protestant church leaders and
the media have all referred to 'Protestant alienation'. Yet, conceptually
speaking, there exists a lack of clarity not only about the term but also
about the factors which may give rise to it. Accordingly, this paper
attempts to explore the phenomenon from three interconnected perspectives:
political, cultural and geographical. It is argued that, when researched in
this way, a clearer (but in no way perfect) understanding of the term is
achieved and a better comprehension of the generating factors of Protestant
alienation is gained. It is also suggested that, at a time when the voting
preferences of unionists have shifted away from the more moderate political
articulations of the Ulster Unionist Party, Protestant alienation might be
considered to be a timely subject to investigate.

Keywords:

Alienation, Protestantism, Unionism, Marginalisation, Ethnicity, Northern
Ireland

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/1369183X.html

Other items of interest in this issue of
JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES
Include

The Myth of Return: Dismissal, Survival or Revival? A Bradford Example of
Transnationalism as a Political Instrument pp. 59 - 76
Marta Bolognani

Unhomely Homes: Women, Family and Belonging in UK Discourses of Migration
and Asylum pp. 77 - 94
Irene Gedalof


Anticipating the Globalisation of Labour: Finnish Women as Immigrant and
Offshore Labour for the Swedish Economy pp. 95 - 112
Marjatta Rahikainen

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This website will be of interest to many on the list.=20

http://www.histpop.org

Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website
=20
A collection of British Historical Population Reports

The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides =
online
access to the complete British population reports for Britain and =
Ireland
from 1801 to 1937.=20

The collection goes far beyond the basic population reports with a =
wealth of
textual and statistical material which provide an in-depth view of the
economy, society (through births, deaths and marriages) and medicine =
during
the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.=20

These 200,000 pages of census and registration material for the British
Isles are supported by numerous ancillary documents from The National
Archives, critical essays and transcriptions of important legislation =
which
provide an aid to understanding the context, content and creation of the
collection.=20

In digitising this resource the OHPR has enabled Browsing through the
collection by date or geography, or Searching the content directly.
Documents relating to the digitization and web development process may =
be
accessed via the Project tab.=20

OHPR is an AHDS History project, funded as part of the JISC Digitisation
programme and is hosted by the UK Data Archive at the University of =
Essex.=20

Note to genealogists and others tracing individuals: This site only =
contains
a very small number of reproductions of original census enumerators' =
books
for illustrative purposes. If you are trying to trace individuals in
historical British censuses you should use the links found on our links
page.=20

=20
Bill Mulligan

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
Office: 1-270-809-6571
Fax: 1-270-809-6587=20
=20
=20

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On Behalf Of
ethnoscapesjournal[at]kirwaninstitute.org
=20

Subject: Call for Papers: "Transnational Migration, Globalization, and
Citizenship" Issue, Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race =
and
Ethnicity in the Global Context
=20
The deadline for manuscript submission is March 2, 2007. Please send
submissions to mmaltry[at]kirwaninstitute.org and =
editors[at]kirwaninstitute.org.
See http://www.kirwaninstitute.org/ethnoscapes/styleguide.html
to prepare your document in accordance with the style guidelines of
Ethnoscapes.=20
Melanie Maltry=20
Assistant Editor, Ethnoscapes=20
The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity=20
The Ohio State University=20

ETHNOSCAPES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL ON RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE
GLOBAL CONTEXT=20
Issue Two, Spring 2007=20
"Transnational Migration, Globalization, and Citizenship"=20
The editorial staff for the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An
Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context
invites submissions for its second issue on the subject of =
"Transnational
Migration, Globalization, and Citizenship." Ethnoscapes maps the =
development
of important themes in the field of race and ethnic studies by using a
"classic" piece as a point of departure for a reconsideration of =
critical
issues within the contemporary economic, political, and cultural =
terrain.=20
While the classic piece establishes the thematic parameters of each =
issue,
authors are under no obligation to actively engage the arguments posed =
by
that work.=20

Issue two explores the subject of "Transnational Migration, =
Globalization,
and Citizenship" with consideration of the chapter "The Shock of =
Alienation"
from Oscar Handlin's ground-breaking The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the
Great Migrations that Made the American People. In this chapter, Handlin
investigates the relationships between labor, cultural membership,
citizenship, and the production of racial difference. Citing violence
against Chinese and Filipino immigrants in the early 19th century, he
details the ways in which labor tensions in the US were integral to the
establishment of federal anti-immigration policy aimed at these
"unassimilable" groups. According to Handlin, cultural variation and =
poverty
status became the criteria used to infer an ostensibly inherent racial
inferiority that served as the basis for denying Chinese and Filipino
immigrants the rights and protections that accompanied citizenship.=20

While labor, cultural membership, and race remain central components of =
the
current complexities of immigration, new concerns have emerged since the
1951 publication of Handlin's Pulitzer Prize-winning history. On one =
hand,
new signs of deterritorialization-the increasing incidence of dual
citizenship, home-country remittances, expatriate involvement in
home-country politics, and "diasporic" community-building-have led some =
to
assert the declining relevance of the nation-state as a primary =
attachment
and the declining significance of citizenship itself. On the other, =
debates
and policy developments around immigration and citizenship suggest that =
the
nation-state's power to regulate the movement of labor and capital =
within
and across borders is far from obsolete. In particular, state power
continues to have a profound impact on racialized disparities, processes =
of
racialization, and on the burdens and benefits of citizenship. In this =
new
context, we are compelled to reconsider the=20
nature of transnational migration, the nature of citizenship, the link
between the two, and the role of race in mediating that link.=20

To this end, the "Transnational Migration, Globalization, and =
Citizenship"
issue of Ethnoscapes seeks manuscripts that investigate:=20

A) Economic Flows, Migration, and Racialized Disparities How is =
migration
racialized/ethnicized and gendered? What is the relationship between =
late
capitalist economic operations, migration, and racialized disparities in
health, education, self determination and representation, and wealth? In
what ways do "citizenship gaps"-spaces in which market participation
forecloses political membership-re/produce racialized disparities =
globally?=20

B) Borders, Boundaries, and "The Nation" How is immigration policy
racialized? What is/should be the current role of the nation-state in
generating policy that regulates the movement of wealth and people =
across
borders and in regulating resultant disparities? What forms of
regulation/governance that exceed the nation-state can be =
conceptualized?
What role does cultural nationalism play in political membership? What
transnational forms of political and cultural membership are/can be
imagined?=20

C) Processes of Racialization=20
In what ways are immigrant populations affecting domestic racial =
hierarchies
and racial identities? How are transnational cultural flows affecting
conceptualizations of race and ethnicity? Their relationship to nation?=20
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From: Jenny Shaw

Registration for the "Rethinking Boundaries: Transformations in Methods =
and
Approaches to=20
Atlantic History"=20
Conference to be held at Glucksman Ireland House, at New York University =
on
February 9 and=20
10, 2007, is=20
available online. To register for the conference, please go to:
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/
atlantic/
conf_form.html

The conference program is included below. Queries about registration or =
the
conference=20
should be directed to=20
Jenny Shaw, jenny.shaw[at]nyu.edu.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 9TH
1:30-3:30pm =16 Panel 1: Methods and Reconsiderations=20
Chair: Noah Gelfand, New York University
Commentator: Karen Kupperman New York University

Aaron Fogelman, Northern Illinois University, =13The Atlantic World,
1492-1860s: Definition,=20
Theory, and=20
Boundaries=14
Jose C. Moya, UCLA and Barnard College, =13Massification, Modernity and =
the
Transformation of=20
the Atlantic World=20
in the 19th Century=14
Christine Folch, CUNY, =13Fine Dining: Race in Pre-Revolution Cuban =
Cookbooks=14
Noeleen McIlvenna, Wright State University, =13Crossing Racial =
Boundaries in
North Carolina=14

3:30-4:00pm - Coffee Break

4:00-6:00pm =16 Panel 2: Reformulating Law
Chair: Kevin Arlyck, New York University
Commentator: Lauren Benton, New York University

Sue Peabody, Washington State University and Keila Grinberg, UNIRIO, =
=13Free
Soil: An Atlantic=20
Legal Construct=14
Linda Rupert, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, =13Creolization =
and
Contraband:=20
Towards a New Human=20
Geography of the Early Modern Caribbean and Atlantic=14
Kristen M. Vogel, Texas A&M University, =13Borderlands of Freedom: =
Colonial
Legacies and=20
Southern Slave Law in=20
Early Nineteenth-Century Louisiana
Michael Kimaid, Bowling Green State University, =13 =11Of Land =
Ordinances and
Liberia:=12 A=20
Consideration of=20
Geography as a Tool of Early American Expansion=14

6:30-8:00pm =16 Reception and Dinner

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 10TH

8:00-9:00am =16 Coffee and Refreshments

9:00-11:00am =16 Panel 3: Spatial Reconceptualizations
Chair: Aaron Slater, New York University
Commentator: Sinclair Thomson, New York University

Helena Nunes Duarte, University of Calgary, =13From Mazagco to Mazagco:
Defence and=20
Settlement in the=20
Captaincy of Grco Para, 1755-1778=14
Molly A. Warsh, Johns Hopkins University =13Pearls and Power: Global
Negotiations and the=20
Early Modern Pearl=20
Trade in the Sixteenth and S
Andrew Apter, UCLA, =13History in the Dungeon: Ritual and Memory in Cape =
Coast
Castle,=20
Ghana=14
Kariann A. Yokota, Yale University, =13Trans-Oceanic Encounters en route =
to
China: A Material=20
Cultural=20
Perspective=14

11:00-11:15am =16 Coffee Break

11:15am-1:00pm =16 Panel 4: Power=20
Chair: Jerusha Westbury, New York University
Commentator: Jennifer Morgan, New York University

Marisa J. Fuentes, University of California, Berkeley, =13Power and =
Historical
Figuring: Rachael=20
Pringle Polgreen=12s=20
Troubled Archive=14
Heather Miyano Kopelson, University of Iowa/MCEAS, =13 =11Transgressing =
the Law
of God &=20
Man=12: Regulating=20
Sexual Intimacy in Seventeenth-Century Bermuda=14
Jessica A. Kr|g, University of Wisconsin, Madison, =13Kromanti =
Ethnogenesis as
Healing and the=20
Deep Roots of=20
Resistance=14
TJ Desch Obi, CUNY, =13Combat and Creolization=14

1:00-2:00pm =16 Lunch

2:00-4:00pm =16 Panel 5: Rethinking Slavery and Its Legacy=20
Chair: Jorge Silva, New York University
Commentator: Fred Cooper, New York University

Dayo Nicole Mitchell, University of Oregon, =13An Atlantic People: Free =
People
of Color in the=20
Caribbean=14
Roquinaldo Ferreira, University of Virginia, =13Atlantic Microhistories:
Slaving, Personal Ties,=20
and Mobility in the=20
Atlantic World (Angola and Brazil)
Gary T. Van Cott, Tulane University, =13Bananas and the American =
Atlantic,
1880-1945=14
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Bryn Mawr College, =13Spain's Early Modern Panama
Frontier: Pacification,=20
Rebellion, and=20
Negotiation=14

4:00-4:30pm =16 Coffee Break

4:30-5:30pm =16 Closing Roundtable=20
Chairs: Jenny Shaw, New York University, Christian A. Crouch, Bard =
College

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Forwarded from H-Kentucky, the second essay may be of interest to many on
the list.

Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Volume 5, Number 4, October
2006

ESSAYS
Law and Society: Structuring Legal Revolutions, 1870-1920
Christopher Waldrep

Irish-American Terrorism and Anglo-American Relations, 1881-1885
Jonathan W. Gantt

Defective or Disabled?: Race, Medicine, and Eugenics in Progressive Era
Virginia and Alabama Gregory Michael Dorr

REVIEW ESSAY
The Rediscovery of Juvenile Delinquency
Bill Bush

For information, please contact the editor.

Alan Lessoff
Editor, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
email: ahlesso[at]ilstu.edu
web: www.jgape.org

Bill Mulligan

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
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