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"Ireland in Proximity" surveys and develops the field of Irish
Studies, reviewing existing debates and providing new avenues for
exploration. Drawing on a wide variety of approaches, this
impressive collection of essays makes an innovative contribution to
three areas of current interest. The contributors illustrate the
diversity of thinking on Irish history, culture, and identity.
Drawing on theoretical perspectives including psychoanalysis,
cultural theories of space, postcoloniality, and theories of gender
and sexual difference, this collection offers fresh perspectives on
established subjects and brings new and under-represented areas of
critical concern to the forefront. Among the topics explored are:
sexuality and gender identities, the historiographical issues
surrounding the Famine, the Irish diaspora, and theories of space
in relation to Ulster and beyond.
Contributors: David Alderson, Aidan Arrowsmith, Caitriona Beaumont,
Fiona Becket, Scott Brewster, Dan Baron Cohen, Mary Corcoran,
Virginia Crossman, Richard Kirkland, David Lloyd, Patrick McNally,
Elisabeth Mahoney, Willy Maley, Shaun Richards, Eibhear Walshe.
Ireland in Proximity surveys and develops the expanding field of Irish Studies, reviewing existing debates within the discipline and providing new avenues for exploration. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches, this impressive collection of essays makes an innovative contribution to three areas of current, and often contentious, debate within Irish Studies. This accessible volume illustrates the diversity of thinking on Irish history, culture and identity. By invoking theoretical perspectives including psychoanalysis, cultural theories of space, postcoloniality and theories of gender and sexual difference, the collection offers fresh perspectives on established subjects and brings new and under-represented areas of critical concern to the fore. Chapter subjects include: * sexuality and gender identities * the historiographical issues surrounding the Famine * the Irish diaspora * theories of space in relation to Ulster and beyond. Contributors inlcude: David Alderson, Aidan Arrowsmith, Caitriona Beaumont, Fiona Becket, Scott Brewster, Dan Baron Cohen, Mary Corcoran, Virginia Crossman, Richard Kirkland, David Lloyd, Patrick McNally, Elisabeth Mahoney, Willy Maley, Shaun Richards, Éibhear Walshe.
Today, anti-humanism is a dominant, even definitive, feature of
contemporary theory. Setting out to challenge this tendency,
editors David Alderson and Kevin Anderson argue that the political
moment demands a reappraisal of the humanist tradition. Humanism,
in all its diversity and complexity, may facilitate the renewal of
progressive theory through the championing of human subjectivity,
agency and freedom. Across four extended essays, David Alderson,
Kevin Anderson, Barbara Epstein and Robert Spencer engage
critically with the Marxist tradition, recent developments in
poststructuralism, postcolonialism and queer theory. Incorporating
an overview of the historical context that resulted in socialist
humanism's eclipse in the 1950s and '60s, and a strident critique
of anti-humanism, For Humanism offers a coherent and compelling
argument for the rehabilitation of a much maligned tradition.
Today, anti-humanism is a dominant, even definitive, feature of
contemporary theory. Setting out to challenge this tendency,
editors David Alderson and Kevin Anderson argue that the political
moment demands a reappraisal of the humanist tradition. Humanism,
in all its diversity and complexity, may facilitate the renewal of
progressive theory through the championing of human subjectivity,
agency and freedom. Across four extended essays, David Alderson,
Kevin Anderson, Barbara Epstein and Robert Spencer engage
critically with the Marxist tradition, recent developments in
poststructuralism, postcolonialism and queer theory. Incorporating
an overview of the historical context that resulted in socialist
humanism’s eclipse in the 1950s and '60s, and a strident critique
of anti-humanism, For Humanism offers a coherent and compelling
argument for the rehabilitation of a much maligned tradition.
The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was
that capitalism's investment in the norms of the heterosexual
family meant that any challenge to them was invariably
anti-capitalist. In recent years, however, lesbian and gay
subcultures have become increasingly mainstream and commercialized
- as seen, for example, in corporate backing for pride events -
while the initial radicalism of sexual liberation has given way to
relatively conservative goals over marriage and adoption rights.
Meanwhile, queer theory has critiqued this 'homonormativity', or
assimilation, as if some act of betrayal had occurred. In Sex,
Needs and Queer Culture, David Alderson seeks to account for these
shifts in both queer movements and the wider society, and argues
powerfully for a distinctive theoretical framework. Through a
critical reassessment of the work of Herbert Marcuse, as well as
the cultural theorists Raymond Williams and Alan Sinfield, Alderson
asks whether capitalism is progressive for queers, evaluates the
distinctive radicalism of the counterculture as it has mutated into
queer, and distinguishes between avant-garde protest and
subcultural development. In doing so, the book offers new
directions for thinking about sexuality and its relations to the
broader project of human liberation.
The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was
that capitalism's investment in the norms of the heterosexual
family meant that any challenge to them was invariably
anti-capitalist. In recent years, however, lesbian and gay
subcultures have become increasingly mainstream and commercialized
- as seen, for example, in corporate backing for pride events -
while the initial radicalism of sexual liberation has given way to
relatively conservative goals over marriage and adoption rights.
Meanwhile, queer theory has critiqued this 'homonormativity', or
assimilation, as if some act of betrayal had occurred. In Sex,
Needs and Queer Culture, David Alderson seeks to account for these
shifts in both queer movements and the wider society, and argues
powerfully for a distinctive theoretical framework. Through a
critical reassessment of the work of Herbert Marcuse, as well as
the cultural theorists Raymond Williams and Alan Sinfield, Alderson
asks whether capitalism is progressive for queers, evaluates the
distinctive radicalism of the counterculture as it has mutated into
queer, and distinguishes between avant-garde protest and
subcultural development. In doing so, the book offers new
directions for thinking about sexuality and its relations to the
broader project of human liberation.
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