Mark Boyle

Metropolitan Anxieties

On the Meaning of the Irish Catholic Adventure in Scotland

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Produktbeschreibung

In a lecture entitled 'Scotland's shame', delivered at the Edinburgh Festival in August 1999, Scotland's leading musical composer James MacMillan sought to expose the continuing pervasiveness of anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sectarianism and bigotry in contemporary Scotland. A decade of heated public debate has followed. The purpose of this book is to harness the complex and rich theory of colonialism which French philosopher, political activist and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre developed and struggled over, to venture a qualified and partial interpretation of the Irish Catholic experience of Scotland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780754633792
• ISBN-10: 0754633799
• Artikelnr.: 45540174

Autorenporträt

Mark Boyle is Chair and Head of the Department of Geography at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface: liberating nausea; Provincialising the Scotland's Secret
Shame debate: an enquiry into the meaning of the Irish Catholic adventure
in Scotland. Part I Topological Mappings and Their Limits: Metropolitan
anxieties: a critical appraisal of Sartre's theory of colonialism; The
Scotland's Secret Shame debate: approach and method. Part II Topographical
Mappings of the Irish Catholic Adventure in Scotland: Prologue: the oral
history archive; National identity, estrangement and belonging: who are the
Irish Catholics in Scotland?; Imagining home: holidays, the farm, and the
craic; The politics of anti-imperialism: activists, agitators, and
advocates; Ways of life and the life of ways: culture, faith and family;
Immigrant advancement: poverty, education and equality. Part III
Cartographical Reflection: Method and Dialogue Under Scrutiny: Masses,
spontaneity and tribe: in search of the intelligibility of the Irish
Catholic adventure in Scotland; References; Index,