Race Against Time: Racial Discourse and Irish History

Gibbons, Luke

doi:10.3366/olr.1991.005

Cited by 57 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 1 publication

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…While such essentialising discourses © 2007 The Author Journal Compilation © 2007 IOM were ultimately successful in building a nationalist self-esteem among the Irish, they simultaneously nourished future nationalist exclusivisms (ibid: 300). For a more detailed discussion of how Ireland's colonial relationship with Britain has shaped and defined both Irish and British national identity, (see Eagleton, 1995;Gibbons, 1996;Hickman, 1995b;Howe, 2000, andLloyd, 1993). For a more comprehensive discussion of racism in the Irish experience, particularly the centrality of "becoming white" in America to contemporary views of Irishness, (see Garner, 2004: chapters 4, 7, and 9).…”

Section: Postscriptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Dublin then, is both a real and an imaginary space. A potent imaginary, this conflation of people and territory is encouraged by Ireland's island geography, a feature which was heavily exploited by nationalist advocates following independence (Castles, 1998;Gibbons, 1996). In legislative terms, it is reflected by the concept of jus soli -or birthright citizenship -and the centrality of this concept in Irish nationality law is understood to reflect a combination of British influence and a territorial conception of the Irish people (Ryan, 2005: 192).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

“Everyone with Eyes Can See the Problem”: Moral Citizens and the Space of Irish Nationhood

Tormey

2007

International Migration

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper examines Ireland's 2004 Constitutional Amendment which removes birthright citizenship from any future Irish-born children of immigrant parents. I argue that for particular historical reasons, the ability of the state to convince its citizens of the necessity for this Amendment was remarkable and I suggest that it was able to do so by constructing citizenship as a moral regime and foreign-nationals and their foetuses as 'suspect patriots.' I describe how the notion of immorality is laminated upon black bodies -specifically black pregnant women -and how the presence of black migrant workers, refugees and asylees consequently comes to be experienced in Irish national space as transgressive, their political subjecthood constrained by the supposedly legible abjectivity of their bodies. The issue of race remains unenunciated, and yet, as the Minister for Justice stated during the referendum debate, 'anyone with eyes can see the problem.' The Irish government's privileging of moral rather than cultural incommensurability is strikingly similar to culturalist rhetorics of exclusion that are often invoked when race is at issue in European public debate on immigration. Configured upon, and therefore experienced as a type of body, immorality becomes an alibi for race and is naturalized as a form of exclusion and as a potential site of state intervention in the form of xenophobic legislation and policymaking. Reading this decision as merely racist however, fails to give voice to the experiences of Irish Citizens who voted for this Amendment. Their struggle to build a "New Ireland" and to accept a multiculturalist framework in the face of neo-liberal restructuring policies and a European-wide retreat from the welfare state must be considered as being in dialectical tension with the ideological smearing of immigrants if we are to fully grasp the complex interaction between relations of power and the privileging of difference.

show abstract

Section: Postscriptmentioning

confidence: 99%

mentioning

confidence: 99%

“Everyone with Eyes Can See the Problem”: Moral Citizens and the Space of Irish Nationhood

Tormey

2007

International Migration

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…9 The attempt to impose Burkean ideas of continuity on Irish history is critically analyzed in Tom Dunne (1988: 72-3), and in Gibbons (1991). 10 Daniel Corkery's classic nationalist study of eighteenth-century Gaelic poetry, The Hidden Ireland, was published in 1924.…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identity without a centre: Allegory, history and Irish nationalism

Gibbons¹

1992

Cultural Studies

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Na nešto drugačiji način, unutrašnje veze bi se mogle izvesti i za kategoriju "rase" (Groot 1989;Gibbons 2001;Cox 2002;Shah 2000;Molnar 1997) Četvrto poglavlje nastoji da preispita šta je to što ženu čini nemogućim pojedincem, odnosno kako joj sistem privatnog i javnog dodeljuje poziciju pola/poziciju nemogućeg pojedinca. U njemu se stoga razlažu značenja polnosti, koja se otvaraju u presecima sfere rada, moralnosti, pravne egzistencije, "naučnih" opisa ženskosti i medicinskog otkrića Jedna je od ključnih teza ovog istraživanja da pol nije samo neraskidivo povezan s klasom, već i da je taj entitet kao entitet mogao nastati samo u kontekstu reforme, transformacije političkog i nastanka države koja nije commonwealth.…”

Section: Fuko Kažeunclassified

“…Na nešto drugačiji način, unutrašnje veze bi se mogle izvesti i za kategoriju "rase" (Groot 1989;Gibbons 2001;Cox 2002;Shah 2000;Molnar 1997), i za 28 imperijalno-kolonijalni kontekst (Burton 1992;Stoler 1996;Midgley 1998;Bell 2007), 13 te se otuda svuda gde je to u tekstu bilo prikladno, upućivalo i na ove kategorije, doduše više u vidu podsećanja nego temeljne analize.…”

unclassified

The process of enfranchisement in England: Becoming a citizen in the system of private and public

Zaharijević¹

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Datum odbrane: Izjava zahvalnostiPisanje doktorske teze, i to teze koja se bavi nekim sasvim drugim prostorom i sasvim drugim vremenom, u temeljnom je smislu bilo proces. Proces je svakako postala ključna reč gotovo svakog teksta koji sam poslednjih godina pisala, ali i svakog oblika delovanja u koji se upuštam, uz punu svest da je reč o toku kojem se teško razaznaje početak, još teže kraj. U ovom slučaju, reč je o jednom od onih procesa koji svaku dimenziju -istraživačku, teorijsku, aktivističku, najzad, ljudsku -stavljaju na kušnju, potvrđujući na taj način tegobnost života u procesualnosti i procesualnog mišljenja. Na ovom putu, ponekad usamljeničkom preko svake izdržljive granice, uz mene je ipak bilo mnoštvo ljudi koji su taj proces ipak učinili manje tegobnim.Daša Duhaček, moja mentorka, treći put je sa mnom prolazila kroz proces stasavanjateorijskog, feminističkog, ljudskog. Ovaj tekst je proizvod naših nebrojenih rasprava koje smo tokom godina vodile o značaju moći delovanja, o vezi teorije i prakse, o smislu političkog, o odgovornosti prema zajednicama kojima pripadamo, svojevoljno ili slučajno, rođenjem. Ovaj tekst je takođe proizvod Dašinog naloga da se na dubok način promišlja političnost našeg delovanja, odnos institucija i pojedinca, i emancipacije. Na podsticaju da o tome mislim i pišem, i u skladu s tim delujem, iskreno joj se zahvaljujem. Moja duboka zahvalnost ide i Iliji Vujačiću i Ani Stolić koji su ponovo prihvatili da pročitaju ovaj tekst, podrže moj rad i podstaknu na neka nova istraživanja.Na samom svom ulasku u feminizam, pred mene je postavljen još jedan nalog: biti uvek i po svaku cenu otvoren/a, postavljati pitanja pre nego davati odgovore. Njega pripisujem Jelisaveti Blagojević, koju sam širom otvorenih očiju slušala na njenom prvom predavanju u Centru za ženske studije 2001. godine. Od tada do danas, a ovaj rad želim da vidim i kao izraz te otvorenosti, Jelisavetin "nalog" uvek je bio orijentacioni znak pored puta, i to, čini mi se, ne samo za mene, već za čitavu jednu generaciju žena u Srbiji."Pisati o viktorijancima u Srbiji?", s pravom je iznenađeno reagovao Tomas Laker tokom jednog kratkog razgovora koji smo o viktorijancima vodili u Beogradu. Da bi se o viktorijancima u Srbiji pisalo, nije bio dovoljan samo brzi internet, već i svesrdna pomoć ljudi koji su me opskrbljivali materijalima za čitanje i spiskovima relevantnih tekstova. Aleksandra Đajić-Horvath, Eva Kamerer i Ivana Pantelić sa mnom su bezrezervno i prijateljski podelile literaturu, beleške i svoje virtuelne biblioteke. Podrška Kostasa Duzinasa nadilazila je upućivanje u značajne naslove iz ove oblasti. Kostas Duzinas i Tomas Laker su mi takođe ukazivali na nesamerljivost poduhvata u koji se upuštam i zahteva koji se postavljaju pred osobe koje pretenduju da tek uđu u akademsku zajednicu. To je stvari činilo težima, ali im je davalo i smisao koji je često inače bio vrlo maglovit.Nekoliko ljudi, izvanrednih teoretičara koje s radošću mogu nazvati svojim prijateljima, pročitalo je pojedine delove ovog teksta. Ivan Milen...

show abstract

Race Against Time: Racial Discourse and Irish History

Cited by 57 publications

References 1 publication

“Everyone with Eyes Can See the Problem”: Moral Citizens and the Space of Irish Nationhood

“Everyone with Eyes Can See the Problem”: Moral Citizens and the Space of Irish Nationhood

Identity without a centre: Allegory, history and Irish nationalism

The process of enfranchisement in England: Becoming a citizen in the system of private and public

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About