Mary Burke
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199566464
- eISBN:
- 9780191721670
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199566464.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Chapter Four examines the manner in which the idealization of the tinker figure disappeared after Partition, when it functioned as a symbol of threatening outside forces; although Synge had ...
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Chapter Four examines the manner in which the idealization of the tinker figure disappeared after Partition, when it functioned as a symbol of threatening outside forces; although Synge had Hibernicized tinkers, nativist discourse did not allow for the inclusion of any element of dubious origin in the putatively homogenous state. Ironically, in post-Independence Ireland, the tinker’s alien patina was reinforced by the fact that earlier interest in the minority had emanated from Anglo-Irish quarters. However, accretions of ‘foreignness’ were sometimes exorcized in literary depictions by a compensatory stress on the tinker’s orthodox Catholicism and Irish language ability, such as will be noted in Maurice Walsh’s prose. Additionally, the tinker was utilized for differing but related ideological purposes by the two sedentary territories on the divided island: liberal humanist nationalist discourse attempted to re-Hibernicize the tinker even as post-war Northern Unionists labelled tinkers a potential contaminant emanating from the hostile South.Less
Chapter Four examines the manner in which the idealization of the tinker figure disappeared after Partition, when it functioned as a symbol of threatening outside forces; although Synge had Hibernicized tinkers, nativist discourse did not allow for the inclusion of any element of dubious origin in the putatively homogenous state. Ironically, in post-Independence Ireland, the tinker’s alien patina was reinforced by the fact that earlier interest in the minority had emanated from Anglo-Irish quarters. However, accretions of ‘foreignness’ were sometimes exorcized in literary depictions by a compensatory stress on the tinker’s orthodox Catholicism and Irish language ability, such as will be noted in Maurice Walsh’s prose. Additionally, the tinker was utilized for differing but related ideological purposes by the two sedentary territories on the divided island: liberal humanist nationalist discourse attempted to re-Hibernicize the tinker even as post-war Northern Unionists labelled tinkers a potential contaminant emanating from the hostile South.
Tuomo Rankinen and Claude Bouchard
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195183009
- eISBN:
- 9780199865116
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195183009.003.0005
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter provides an overview of the basic study designs and research methods that can be used to investigate the genetic basis of human heterogeneity in the ability to benefit from a physically ...
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This chapter provides an overview of the basic study designs and research methods that can be used to investigate the genetic basis of human heterogeneity in the ability to benefit from a physically active lifestyle. It summarizes the key findings regarding the genetics of physical activity levels and responsiveness to regular exercise. It shows that genetic factors contribute to the individual differences in response to regular exercise.Less
This chapter provides an overview of the basic study designs and research methods that can be used to investigate the genetic basis of human heterogeneity in the ability to benefit from a physically active lifestyle. It summarizes the key findings regarding the genetics of physical activity levels and responsiveness to regular exercise. It shows that genetic factors contribute to the individual differences in response to regular exercise.
Clare Herrick
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847426383
- eISBN:
- 9781447302445
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847426383.001.0001
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This book critically explores the urban governance of healthy lifestyles and the contemporary problematisations of the obesity, sedentarism and alcohol ‘epidemics’. To do so, it uses US and UK case ...
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This book critically explores the urban governance of healthy lifestyles and the contemporary problematisations of the obesity, sedentarism and alcohol ‘epidemics’. To do so, it uses US and UK case studies to shed light on the complex socio-spatial dynamics of responsibilities for health and argues for an engagement with the construct of ‘sensible’ behaviour at a time of its rising political salience.Less
This book critically explores the urban governance of healthy lifestyles and the contemporary problematisations of the obesity, sedentarism and alcohol ‘epidemics’. To do so, it uses US and UK case studies to shed light on the complex socio-spatial dynamics of responsibilities for health and argues for an engagement with the construct of ‘sensible’ behaviour at a time of its rising political salience.
