The return of the native: racialised space, colonial debris and the human zoo

Purtschert, Patricia

doi:10.1080/1070289x.2014.944183

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“…In the 19th century, Irish attitudes toward Travellers were influenced by social Darwinism (O'hAodha 2006). In both the 19th and early 20th centuries science was fascinated with race, and thousands of indigenous people all over the world were put into zoos as human exhibitions to demonstrate racial difference (Purtschert 2015). In colonial Ireland, Travellers found themselves positioned within the symbolic order of the dominant discourse on race (McVeigh 2012).…”

Section: A Brief Profile Of Ireland's Traveller Communitymentioning

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The Significance of the Declaration of Ethnic Minority Status for Irish Travellers

Haynes

Joyce

Schweppe

2020

Nationalities Papers

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Irish Travellers are a traditionally nomadic ethnic minority indigenous to Ireland. Although recognized as an ethnic minority in adjacent jurisdictions, the Irish state persistently and explicitly denied recognizing Travellers’ separate ethnicity and pursued assimilationist policies designed to eradicate Travellers’ differences. However, in the late 1980s and 1990s, the state recognized the structural disadvantage and social stigma to which Travellers are subjected, naming them as a protected group in equality legislation, as well as laws addressing incitement to hatred. Through these interventions, the state afforded Travellers rights on the basis of their collective identity as Travellers, while continuing to deny their ethnicity. After sustained campaigning, Traveller ethnicity was recognized by the prime minister of Ireland in 2017. This article explores the reasoning behind, and legal significance of, that statement of recognition in Ireland.1 We outline the evidence in support of ethnic recognition as a prelude to addressing the question of whether recognition is likely to afford the community any additional rights. We conclude that this is unlikely given the protections afforded to the group prior to ethnic recognition, though we argue that recognition may give the community a firmer basis for arguing for the activation of these preexisting rights.

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Section: A Brief Profile Of Ireland's Traveller Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Significance of the Declaration of Ethnic Minority Status for Irish Travellers

Haynes

Joyce

Schweppe

2020

Nationalities Papers

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“…Colonialism has generally not been perceived as a part of the history of those European countries that did not own colonies (Purtschert 2015;Rastas 2005;Hübi nette and Lundström 2011). Nationalistic narratives in the Nordic countries gener ally exhibit a strong dismissal of Nordic involvement in colonialism (Keskinen et al 2009;Loftsdóttir and Jensen 2012a;Palmberg 2001).…”

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Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins

Loftsdóttir¹

2018

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Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland provides a fresh look at the current politics of identity in Europe, using a crisis at the margins of Europe to shed light on the continued embeddedness of coloniality in everyday aspirations and identities. Examining Iceland's response to its collapse into bankruptcy in 2008, the author explores the way in which the country sought to brand itself as an exotic tourist destination. With attention to the nation's aspirations, rooted in the late 19th century, of belonging as part of Europe, rather than being classified with colonized countries, the book examines the engagement with ideas of otherness across and within Europe, as European discourses continue to be based on racialized ideas of 'civilized' people. With its focus on coloniality at a time of crisis, this volume contributes to our understanding of how racism endures in the present and the significance of nationalistic sentiments in a world of precariousness. Anchored in part in personal narrative, this critical analysis of coloniality, racism, whiteness and national identities will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in national identity-making, European politics and race in a world characterized by crisis. Two women very important inmy life passed away while I was completing this book: Ásta Jónsdóttir, my grandmother, and Helen K. Henderson, one of my mentors during my PhD studies. They had strength, humor and an ability to have strong positive and inspiring effects on those around them -including me. Contents Acknowledgments ix List of figures xi PART I Before the crash 15

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“…The most prevalent combination of codes for the sentences in which the NP "work" was found is "Organizations" (named, identified) + "Funding" (acknowledged, whether a grant number is present or not) + "Project" (for which the NP "work" stands, in term of describing the whole endeavour). Typical examples include: "This work was supported, in whole or in part, by National Institutes of Health Grant R01CA168700" (Biomedical Research; Artinian et al, 2015); "This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation" (Social Sciences; Purtschert, 2015). Table 2 shows the distribution of this dominant combination in comparison to the total number of sentences coded.…”

Section: Preliminary Findingsmentioning

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Checks and Balances: Taking a Closer Look at Funding Acknowledgements Texts

Paul‐Hus¹,

Desrochers²

2018

CAIS/ACSI

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Since 2008, funding acknowledgements have been indexed by Web of Science, allowing for large-scale analyses of acknowledgements. The objective of this study is to qualitatively analyse the content of acknowledgements texts in order to contextualize quantitatively obtained trends in acknowledgement practices. The preliminary results show that funding-related uses are more prevalent than expected, since even seemingly non-funding-related terms are in fact linked to funding statements.

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The return of the native: racialised space, colonial debris and the human zoo

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

The Significance of the Declaration of Ethnic Minority Status for Irish Travellers

The Significance of the Declaration of Ethnic Minority Status for Irish Travellers

Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins

Checks and Balances: Taking a Closer Look at Funding Acknowledgements Texts

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