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TI 254  - Space, place and the irish landscape

Module Coordinators:   Dr John Morrissey and Prof. Charlotte Damm Phone:                          (0) 91 492267 (John)                                       (0) 91 494257 (Charlotte) E-mail:                          john.morrisseynuigalway.ie                                       charlotte.dammnuigalway.ie Module Weighting:       5 ECTS Lectures:                      Mon 10 - 11 & 1 - 2 AC202 Module Outline:           Click here.

Aims and Objectives:

This module aims to critically explore the historical and contemporary complexities of Irish culture, place and landscape through select case-studies, thematic and/or locational, and through a range of theoretical concerns from both Archaeology and Geography. The module engages the key challenge of carefully contextualising and historicising understandings of landscape, heritage and environment, and exploring urgent contemporary questions of landscape/environment sustainability, governmentality and management. The module will provide an introduction to the various ways in which human societies interact(ed) with their environment, and will be able to provide both chronological depth and thematically-specific case-study knowledge of key sites and spaces across the island of Ireland. Particular attention too will be given to the range of competing discourses on issues of environment, landscape and development in both rural and urban Ireland and their implications for communities in the present and the future. Some of the case studies will be able to provide a long term trajectory of developments (in both rural and urban landscapes), while others may choose to focus on other aspects of the physical or social environment.

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Lecture Topics

• Landscape: representation and performance
• Deconstructing and reading the landscape
• Landscape and territoriality
• Ireland and the postcolonial landscape
• Landscapes of Ireland abroad
• Irish vernacular architecture
• 'Constructing' the (mobile) Irish landscape
• The Great Famine: representation and reality
• Neolithic sacred geographies
• Ritual landscapes and practices in the Irish stone age

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Method of assessment

• Fieldwork Report (30%)
• 2-Hour Exam (70%)

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Deadlines: 

TBA. Essay topics will be posted on Blackboard.

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Schedule

• Lectures 1-4:      Dr John Morrissey, Geography, NUI Galway
• Lectures 5-8:      Dr Alma Clavin, Geography, NUI Galway
• Lectures 9-12:    Dr Anna Ryan, Architecture, University of Limerick
• Lectures 13-16:  Maggie Ronayne, Archaeology, NUI Galway
• Lectures 19-21:  Dr Stefan Bergh, Archaeology, NUI Galway
• Lectures 22-24:  Prof. Charlotte Damm, Archaeology, NUI Galway

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Blackboard

Blackboard support is enabled for this module: https://nuigalway.blackboard.com/ under 1213-TI254: Space, Place and the Irish Landscape.

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Core Readings

B. Bender and M. Winer (eds), 2001, Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place. Berg: Oxford and New York

D. Brett, 1996, The Construction of Heritage, Cork University Press, Cork

D. Cosgrove and S. Daniels (eds), 1988, The Iconography of Landscape, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

J. Duncan, 1990, The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

J. Duncan and D. Ley (eds), 1993, Place/Culture/Representation, Routledge, London

B.J. Graham, G.J. Ashworth and J.E. Tunbridge (eds), 2000, A Geography of Heritage: Power, Culture and Economy, Arnold, London

K. Hetherington, 1998, Expressions of Identity: Space, Performance, Politics, Sage, London

G. Kearns and C. Philo (eds), 1993, Selling Places, Pergamon, Oxford

D. Lowenthal, 1998, The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

J. Tunbridge and G. Ashworth, 1996, Dissonant Heritage: The Management of the Past as Resource in Conflict, Wiley, Chichester

    

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