Brewing Identities: Globalisation, Guinness and the Production of Irishness - Couverture souple

Murphy, Brenda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1433118904 ISBN 13 : 9781433118906

Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2014

Synopsis

While Guinness is a global product, it still contains references to Ireland and it occupies a particular place in imaginings of Irishness. Brewing Identities is unique in that, while it focuses on the (re)production of a specific kind of ethno-national identity– Irishness – it is simultaneously transnational in scope, as the author maps the trails of products, people and symbolic constructs through a globalised world. In pubs from Dublin to London to New York, the reader is taken on a multi-sited ethnography, where stories unfold through observation, interview, and conversation with fellow patrons and pub personnel, while drawing from an ample sampling of discursive and interactional sources from which the author derives her own interpretations and conclusions. Additionally, the book follows the trail of the political economy of Guinness. Brewing Identities produces an engaging and well-grounded mode of inquiry informed not only by multiple sources but by the interdisciplinary field of cultural studies, one that is particularly sensitive and responsive to both the convergences and discontinuities of diverse conditioning factors at work in the generally nebulous and complex sphere of identity production.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Born in Ireland, Dr Brenda Murphy received her doctorate from Goldsmiths' College, University of London. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender Studies at the University of Malta and is a collaborative researcher in EU and International projects.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1433118904
• ISBN 13: 9781433118906
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 233
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• Personne responsable: non disponible