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This book is a collection of nine essays exploring the
Irish-American experience in the New Jersey and New York
metropolitan area, both historically and today. The essays place
the local Irish-American experience in the wider context of
immigration studies, assimilation, and historical theory. Using
case studies, interviews, scholarly research in primary historical
documents and theory, and first-hand experience, the authors delve
into what it has meant, and means, to be Irish American in the New
Jersey and New York area, projecting what this ethnic identity will
signify in years to come. Representing a variety of scholarly and
professional disciplines, from archivists; to historians; to
lawyers; to scholars of literature and theology; the authors share
their own unique perspectives on the significance of the
contributions of Irish-Americans to American life in various
arenas. Each chapter is interdisciplinary, revealing the
interconnections among cultural history, biography, contemporary
events, and literary appreciation. It is through these
intersections of disciplines, of past and present, of individual
and community, that we can best analyze and appreciate the ways
that Irish-Americans have shaped life in the New Jersey/New York
area over the past two centuries.
Derrida's work is controversial, its interpretation hotly
contested. Derrida: Ethics Under Erasure offers a new way of
thinking about ethics from a Derridean perspective, linking the
most abstract theoretical implications of his writing on
deconstruction and on justice and responsibility to representations
of the practice of ethical paradoxes in everyday life. The book
presents the development of Derrida's thinking on ethics by
demonstrating that the ethical was a focus of Derrida's work at
every stage of his career. In connecting Derrida's earlier work on
language with the ethics implicated in his later work on justice
and responsibility, Nicole Anderson traverses literary, linguistic,
philosophical and ethical interpretative movements, thus
recontextualising Derrida's entire oeuvre for a contemporary
readership. She explores the positive ethical implications of
Derrida's work for representation and practice and asks the reader
to consider how this new ethical reading of Derrida's work might be
applied to concrete instances of his or her own ethical experience.
There is a widely held notion that, except for the elections of
1928 and 1960, the Irish have primarily influenced only state and
local government. The Irish and the American Presidency reveals
that the Irish have had a consistent and noteworthy impact on
presidential careers, policies, and elections throughout American
history. Using US party systems as an organizational framework,
this book examines the various ways that Scots-Irish and Catholic
Irish Americans, as well as the Irish who remained in eire, have
shaped, altered, and sometimes driven such presidential political
factors as party nominations, campaign strategies, elections, and
White House policymaking. The Irish seem to be inextricably
interwoven into important moments of presidential political
history. Yanoso discusses the Scots-Irish participation in the
American Revolution, the Whiskey Rebellion, and the War of 1812.
She describes President Bill Clinton's successful Good Friday
Agreement that brought peace and hope to Northern Ireland. And
finally, she assesses the now-common presidential visits to Ireland
as a strategy for garnering Irish-American support back home. No
previous work has explored the impact of Irish and Irish-American
affairs on US presidential politics throughout the entire scope of
American history. Readers interested in presidential politics,
American history, and/or Irish/Irish-American history are certain
to find The Irish and the American Presidency enjoyable,
informative, and impactful.
Derrida's work is controversial, its interpretation hotly
contested. Derrida: Ethics Under Erasure offers a new way of
thinking about ethics from a Derridean perspective, linking the
most abstract theoretical implications of his writing on
deconstruction and on justice and responsibility to representations
of the practice of ethical paradoxes in everyday life. The book
presents the development of Derrida's thinking on ethics by
demonstrating that the ethical was a focus of Derrida's work at
every stage of his career. In connecting Derrida's earlier work on
language with the ethics implicated in his later work on justice
and responsibility, Nicole Anderson traverses literary, linguistic,
philosophical and ethical interpretative movements, thus
recontextualising Derrida's entire oeuvre for a contemporary
readership. She explores the positive ethical implications of
Derrida's work for representation and practice and asks the reader
to consider how this new ethical reading of Derrida's work might be
applied to concrete instances of his or her own ethical experience.
Cultural Theory in Everyday Practice takes some of the most
prominent theoretical approaches used in Cultural Studies and
demonstrates the ways in which they are used to evaluate, analyze
and interpret recent events, debates, topics and texts in
contemporary society.
The book is organized around seven theories that have dominated and
still dominate the teaching and researching of cultural studies.
Each section consists of an introduction, then three essays by
different contributors that bring together theory and practice.
This allows the book to look more at the types of theory, rather
than at the theorist in isolation. Each section uses the
introduction of the theory, its history, where appropriate, its
concerns and its limitations, as well as connection with other
sections of the book, drawing all the relevant concepts alongside
for comparison and discussion.
By offering more than one example in each part, the text reveals
that there are not only many theories and many practices in which
theory can be applied, but also many styles of writing, many styles
of thinking about and articulating cultural practices and everyday
life.
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