Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space

Milena Komarova is a Research Officer at the Centre for Cross Border Studies, Armagh and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast. Her research spans the fields of conflict transformation, urban sociology and border studies, exploring the intersections between place, identities and bordering practices within and without ethno-nationally “divided” cities.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Spatiality, Movement and Place-MakingMaruška Svašek and Milena KomarovaChapter 1. Growing up with the Troubles: Reading and Negotiating Space  Angela Stephanie MazzetiChapter 2. Crafting Identities: Prison Artefacts and Place-Making in Pre- and Post-ceasefire Northern IrelandErin HinsonChapter 3. ‘Recalling or Suggesting Phantoms’: Walking in BelfastElizabeth DeYoungChapter 4. ‘Women on the Peace Line’: Challenging Divisions through the Space of FriendshipAndrea García GonzálezChapter 5. ‘You Have No Legitimate Reason to Access’: Visibility and Movement in Contested Urban SpaceMilena KomarovaChapter 6. ‘Lifting the Cross’ in West Belfast: Enskilling Crucicentric Vision Through Pedestrian Spatial PracticeKayla RushChapter 7. Engaging amid Divisions: Social Media as a Space for Political Intervention and Interactions in Northern IrelandAugusto H. Gazir M. SoaresChapter 8. Belfast’s Festival of Fools: Sharing Space through LaughterNick McCaffertyChapter 9. Criss-crossing Pathways: The Indian Community Centre as a Focus of Diasporic and Cross-Community Place-MakingMaruška SvašekChapter 10. Sushi or Spuds? Japanese Migrant Women and Practices of Emplacement in Northern IrelandNaoko MaeharaChapter 11. Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Belfast: Finding ‘Home’ through Space and TimeMalcolm FranklinAfterword: Cupar Way or Cupar Street – Integration and Division around a Belfast WallDominic BryanIndex

“Milena Komarova and Maruška Svašek’s edited volume is a commendable piece of scholarship on Northern Ireland that manages to be ambitious in scope but never scattershot in execution… a magnificent work on the outbound orientation of mobility and sociality and, lamentably, how this sociability brushes up against the walls and the persistent, dichotomous views of two opposing communities that constrain and reify them.” • JRAI“A very welcome and timely contribution… This is a book that manages to be both detailed and insightful in its elaboration of fascinating empirical data whilst also being very strong in its conceptual and methodological contribution.” • Katy Hayward, Queen's University Belfast“This volume will set a new benchmark for the ethnographic study of life in the north of Ireland today. Focusing on practices and discourses of placemaking, it explores many of the nooks and crannies of everyday life that are perhaps less than visible to the outsider… It is a pleasure to read and makes an important contribution to our understanding of the place in question, and its people, but also to the wider anthropology of the contemporary world.” • Richard P Jenkins, Sheffield University“[This book] represents a valuable addition to the literature on Northern Ireland due to the manner in which it integrates the new with the established, the perspectives of the majority communities with those of the new minority communities and in the way that it foregrounds women's perspectives.” • Neil Jarman, Queen's University Belfast