Andrea Redmond

Irish Traveller Women

At the brutal intersections of hate

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Produktbeschreibung

The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of
the life experience and culture of female Irish
Travellers in Ireland, with special consideration to
their experience in Northern Ireland. The Irish
Travelling community are an indigenous minority
group. Traditionally a nomadic community Travellers
have been marginalised and discriminated against with
new pluralistic initiatives at interculturalism
failing to moderate Irish society s perception of the
community. The author has made special note of the
traditional female Traveller economy, their
door-step-exchanges which have displayed an agency
and skill historically invalidated. Other aspects
considered include recent changes to Traveller
nomadism, anti-Traveller racism, health, education,
marriage and Traveller faith. Frequently the
Travelling community has been used in literature and
art as symbolic vehicles, this volume considers the
Irish and Colonial Constructs of Traveller Culture
focusing on fine artists such Northern painter Basil
Blackshaw and recent depictions of Travellers in
films.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9783639143911
• ISBN-10: 3639143914
• Artikelnr.: 26355725

Autorenporträt

Andrea Redmond is a native of Prince Edward Island, Canada, who
has lived in Northern Ireland for 20 years. She has worked
in the community sector in Belfast and Derry as a women s worker,
a community activist
and artist. The mother of three she is presently
completing her PHD with a focus on the cultural representation of
the Travelling people.