The space of the nation: History, culture and a conflict in modern Ireland

Maguire, Mark

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“…The dog was Ireland' (quoted in Breathnach, 1974: 29). And, Ireland's laboratory-like qualities persisted throughout the 20th century: from experiments in semistate government in the 1920s and tax-free export zones in the 1960s to efforts to attract transnational corporations and liquid capital during the so-called Celtic Tiger period (see Coen and Maguire, 2012;Maguire, 1998). 3.…”

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Neoliberalism, securitization and racialization in the Irish taxi industry

Maguire

Murphy

2013

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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The Irish taxi industry was deregulated in 2000 during an era of neoliberal reform and record economic growth. Driving a taxi became a popular occupation for new immigrants, and the industry came to be associated with racial tensions. Today, the taxi industry is undergoing a process of re-regulation that includes a variety of security and identification measures. This article explores contested trends in governance, contemporary interventions that make use of new technologies and processes of subjectification such as racialization. We draw on several years of ethnographic research on the integration of African migrants in Ireland, which includes an exploration of labour integration, and extend this work here. We retrace the political rationalities behind deregulation and re-regulation and show the specific ways in which security interventions manifest themselves. We also look to the ways in which racialization processes operate within the industry and are nested in the modes of governance and (in)securitization.

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Neoliberalism, securitization and racialization in the Irish taxi industry

Maguire

Murphy

2013

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…The fishermen whose old lifestyle was disrupted by the scheme demonstrated against it to public acclaim. However, finally they were subjected to a modernist assessment of their losses by the state and categorised by historians and others in ways that ensured the priority of the modernising project: 'The outcome of the battle altered certain aspects of [the] sense of nationality while reifying others' (Maguire 1998 : 1 17-19).…”

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Janus and Gender: Women and the Nation's Backward Look

Cusack

2000

Nations and Nationalism

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This article considers how nations are imagined and characterised in relation to the national roles allocated to women, with particular reference to the early Irish state. It examines two related dichotomies, that between 'civic' and 'ethnic' nationalisms, and the concept of the nation itself as 'Janus-faced', simultaneously looking ahead to the future and back to the past. It has been suggested that women bore the burden of the nation's 'backward look' towards a putative traditional rural past and an organic community, while men appropriated the nation's present and future. This thesis is examined with reference to Ireland and the representation of women in visual imagery and travel writing.'All nations depend on powerful constructions of gender. Despite nationalism's ideological investment in the idea of popular unity, nations have historically amounted to the sanctioned institutionalisation of gender dgference' (McClintock 1993: 61). This article considers how nations are imagined and characterised in relation to the national roles allocated to women, with particular reference to the early Irish state, following independence in 1922. The article examines two related dichotomies, that between 'civic' and 'ethnic' nationalisms, and the concept of the nation itself as 'Janus-faced', simultaneously looking ahead to the future and back to the past. It considers how women's national role as a mother-figure effectively cuts across the first dichotomy, and how it is figured in the second. It has been suggested that women have borne the burden of the nation's 'backward look' towards a putative traditional rural past and an organic community, while men appropriated the nation's present and future. This thesis is examined with reference to Ireland and the representation of women in visual imagery and travel writing. The first two sections discuss ethnic and civic nationalisms in relation to the nation's 'Janus-face'. The following two consider how women's national role was depicted, and defined, in Ireland. Civic and ethnic nationalisms and gender

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“…Much of the focus has been on disrupting the assumed 'isomorphism of space, place and culture ' (Gupta and Ferguson 2001: 66). This article builds on the ethnographic literature that takes space as a central focus of analysis (Saris 1996, Maguire 1998, 2004 and seeks to suggest a broader project for anthropology under what we would consider to be the useful heading of enshrining. Our focus here has been to explore ethnographically the spatial dimensions of identity as mutable, flexible and dynamic, while at the same time recognizing that identity may congeal to give coherence and stability -and not always in benign ways.…”

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