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- Title
Root Shock and Postcolonial Trauma in Ireland.
- Authors
KEARNS, GERRY
- Abstract
This paper illustrates the place of root shock in the colonial and postcolonial history of Ireland and situates this series of Irish papers inspired by Mindy Fullilove’s seminal book. It explains why the practice of eviction has such a traumatic resonance within Irish society. This trauma was laid bare in the responses to a 2023 artwork by Spicebag that connected modern eviction with its historical precedents. In this paper the elements of Spicebag’s work are given their historical context with an account of dispossession and plantation, famine and exile, urban poverty, and neoliberal privatization of land and housing. In each case, a new form of root shock was added to the earlier legacies producing chronic place-based trauma.
- Subjects
IRELAND; DUBLIN (Ireland); HISTORY of colonies; IRISH history; URBAN poor; EXILE (Punishment); EVICTION
- Publication
Built Environment, 2024, Vol 50, Issue 2, p307
- ISSN
0263-7960
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2148/benv.50.2.307