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Dr. Una Crowley

Personal Information

Name:	Dr. Una Crowley
Position:	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, IRCHSS (2004-2006)
Department:	Geography
Organisation:	NUI Maynooth
Location:	TF 16, John Hume Building
E-mail:	una.m.crowley@nuim.ie
Telephone:	++ 353 1 708 6150
Fax:	++ 353 1 708 6456
Research Interests:	Social and cultural geography, Irish Travellers, geographies of sexualities
Research Group(s):	Social Exclusion, Quality of Life, Health & Welfare

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Projects

Project Title:	A Genealogy of Sexual Standards and Practices in Ireland: 1880- Present
Supervisor:	Prof. Rob Kitchin
Project Abstract:	This research is funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

 

Publications

• Irish Travellers and the Civilising Project: 1830-1922, (in preparation).
  
  
• Paradoxical spaces of citizenship in contemporary Ireland: the case of Irish Travellers, paper submitted to Political Geography (Feb 2005) (co-author Dr Rob Kitchin)
  
  
• The discursive construction of Irish Travellers: Myths, stereotypes, silences and the production of academic ‘truth’, paper submitted to Cultural Studies (October 2004) (co-author Dr Rob Kitchin)

 

• Irish Travellers and the Civilising Project: 1830-1922, (in preparation).

Presentations

• Paradoxical spaces of citizenship in contemporary Ireland: the case of Irish Travellers. Paper presented at Spaces of Citizenship Conference, Hume Building, NUIM. November 2004.
  
  
• The discursive construction of Irish Travellers: Myths, stereotypes, silences and the production of academic 'truth'. Paper presented at the Conference of Irish Geographers, NUI Maynooth. May 2004.
  
  
• Governing Travellers: The Discursive Construction of a Deviant Community. Paper presented at the Conference of Irish Geographers, University of Ulster. May 2002.

• The denial of the 'right to place': the implications of moral-legal discourse for Traveller spaces of citizenship. Paper presented at "Recycling The State" conference, University College Dublin. April 2002.

• A Spatial History of Travellers in Ireland. Paper presented at NUIM Postgraduates Consortium. February, 2002.

• Space, social control and disciplinary logic in the attempted settlement of the Irish Traveller (1963-2000). Paper presented at the Conference of Irish Geographers, University College Cork. May, 2001.

• The everyday lives of Travellers living in local authority housing estates and responses to official settlement policies aimed at this Community: A case study of Navan, Co. Meath. Paper presented at the Conference of Irish Geographers, Queens University Belfast. May 2000.