This book offers a close look at the discourse of and around three
socially marginalised and vulnerable groups – Irish Travellers,
Squatters and Homeless people – in order to understand more about
how individuals within them position themselves vis-Ã -vis
mainstream society. It investigates the groups’ diverse and
provisional relationship with space that challenges mainstream
society’s spatial logic. Given that the relationship between
mobility, space and identity has been explored in migrant contexts,
Roberta Piazza proposes a reconsideration of this relationship
beyond people’s movement from one place to another. Investigating
the space-identity nexus among the three groups, she highlights how
mobility is not solely a cross-country phenomenon, but a no-less
crucial and dramatic reality within an individual nation. Based on
close linguistic analysis of interviews collected over many years,
Piazza investigates how the participants construct their social and
personal identities when talking about themselves and the sites
they inhabit, drawing on the concepts of ‘heterotopia’ and
non-sexual desire.
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