Gypsies, Celts and tinkers: Colonial antecedents of anti‐traveller racism in Ireland

Helleiner, Jane

doi:10.1080/01419870.1995.9993878

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“…The empirical complexities of these discursive constructions are of interest in themselves because while research has been undertaken into political, media and literary discourses about Gypsy‐Travellers (Cottaar et al . 1992; Helleiner 1995; Mayall 1995; Sonneman 1999; Leudar and Nekvapil 2000), very little is known about everyday white attitudes to this group. What the analysis demonstrates is that the intricacies of the use of the figures ‘true Gypsy’ and ‘hanger on’, which go in and out of focus in residents’ racialization of this ethnic minority group, include elements of continuity and change with earlier readings in Traveller Studies.…”

Section: Conclusion: Geographies Of Racialization Geographies Of Whimentioning

confidence: 99%

Articulating Otherness? White rural residents talk about Gypsy‐Travellers

Holloway¹

2005

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper combines insights from geographical research on the racialization of ethnic minority groups with more recent interest in whiteness in an exploration of the ways white rural residents racialize Gypsy‐Travellers. Focusing on the white rural residents of Appleby, Cumbria, and their racialization of and relations with Gypsy‐Travellers who attend the New Fair there each year, the paper contributes both to our understanding of the ways white people racialize ethnic minority groups, and in doing so also highlights the chaotic nature of whiteness as a social construction.

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Section: Conclusion: Geographies Of Racialization Geographies Of Whimentioning

confidence: 99%

Articulating Otherness? White rural residents talk about Gypsy‐Travellers

Holloway¹

2005

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…The exact origins of the Irish Traveller community are a matter of some debate among anthropologists (McCann et al 1994; Helleiner 1995). However, there is broad consensus that Travellers constitute a distinct ethnic group (Crowley 1999; Fanning 2002; Helleiner 2000; Ní Shúinéar 1994).…”

Section: Irish Travellers: Culture Ethnicity and Socio‐economic Charmentioning

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Housing and Accommodation of Irish Travellers: From Assimilationism to Multiculturalism and Back Again

Norris¹,

Winston²

2005

Social Policy & Admin

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This article charts the changing conceptualization of Travellers in relevant Irish central government policy statements since the   s, together with the accommodation policy initiatives devised on this basis. It interprets developments in this regard as a movement from assimilationism to integrationism to (weak) multiculturalism. The article also reveals a significant "policy implementation deficit", which is manifested in two ways. Firstly, accommodation output has generally failed to meet central government targets and has consistently failed to reduce the numbers of Travellers living in unofficial encampments. Secondly, the type of accommodation provided has often been at variance with central government recommendations. Thus, an assimilationist policy statement has effected multicultural policy outcomes, while a multiculturalist policy statement has effected assimilationist policy outcomes. These patterns of accommodation output are related to various implementation variables-some long-standing, others new-which have impeded the implementation of national policy by actors on the ground.

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“…Cottaar et al's (1992) study of attitudes and policies in Europe highlights the very different ways in which Gypsy-Travellers were racialised and treated in Germany, the Netherlands, and Britain, with Britain perhaps having the least punitive measures against this group. Equally, Helleiner (1995) demonstrates the subtly different ways in which Irish Travellers were racialised, compared with their English counterparts, through discourses of imperialism, cultural nationalism, and changing class formation in Ireland. These comparative studies illustrate the very different processes of racialisation and racism in different countries.…”

Section: Gypsy-travellers Place and Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Outsiders in Rural Society? Constructions of Rurality and Nature—Society Relations in the Racialisation of English Gypsy-Travellers, 1869 – 1934

Holloway

2003

Environ Plan D

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In this paper I explore what Little (1999 Progress in Human Geography 23 page 438) terms “the complexity and fluidity of rural otherness” through an examination of the racialisation of Gypsy-Travellers in late-19th-century and early-20th century England. Drawing on social-constructionist and psychoanalytic accounts of difference, I explore both the specificity of racialisation in different places, and the ways in which processes of racialisation can produce highly spatialised understandings of difference. In so doing, I consider the importance of nature – society relations in the othering of this minority group, and the contested construction of their place in the rural idyll.

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Gypsies, Celts and tinkers: Colonial antecedents of anti‐traveller racism in Ireland

Cited by 12 publications

References 6 publications

Articulating Otherness? White rural residents talk about Gypsy‐Travellers

Articulating Otherness? White rural residents talk about Gypsy‐Travellers

Housing and Accommodation of Irish Travellers: From Assimilationism to Multiculturalism and Back Again

Outsiders in Rural Society? Constructions of Rurality and Nature—Society Relations in the Racialisation of English Gypsy-Travellers, 1869 – 1934

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