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The book explores the multi-faceted nature of the important phenomenon of Irish tourism, drawing on current work in sociology, cultural studies, ethnography, and language studies. It will provide invaluable insights into historical and contemporary tourist representations, practices and impacts and will interest researchers and practitioners.

Introduction: Irish Questions and Jewish Questions / Aidan Beatty and Dan O'Brien -- British Israelites, Irish Israelites, and the Ends of an Analogy / Abby Bender -- "Not So Different after All": Irish and Continental European Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective / R. M. Douglas -- "New Jerusalem": Constructing Jewish Space in Ireland, 1880-1914 / Peter Hession -- Irish Representations of Jews and Jewish Responses/Jewish Representations of Jews and Irish Responses / Natalie Wynn -- From Richard Lalor Sheil to Leon Pinsker: The Jewish Question, the Irish Question, and a Genealogy of Hebrewphobia / Sander L. Gilman -- Rebellious Jews on the Edge of Empire: The Judæo-Irish Home Rule Association / Heather Miller Rubens -- Rethinking Irish Protectionism: Jewish Refugee Factories and the Pursuit of an Irish Ireland for Industry / Trisha Oakley Kessler -- Irish, Jewish, or Both: Hybrid Identities of David Marcus, Stanley Price, and Myself / George Bornstein -- The Irish Victory Fund and the United Jewish Appeal as Nation-Building Projects / Dan Lainer-Vos / The Discourses of Irish Jewish Studies: Bernard Shaw, Max Nordau, and Evocations of the Cosmopolitan / Stephen Watt -- The Historical Revitalization of Hebrew as a Model for the Revitalization of Irish? / Muiris Laoire -- "From the Isle of Saints to the Holy Land": Irish Encounters with Zionism in the Palestine Mandate / Seán William Gannon -- Epilogue / Aidan Beatty and Dan O'Brien.

Law attempts to govern life & death through the appropriation of images that give a fantasy of control over death. The functioning of the thanatopolitical state is underpinned by a perceived control over death & its representation. This means of controlling death is challenged when someone wishes to die in an untimely fashion. Death may be timely when the state engages in the officially sanctioned killing of the death penalty but not when the individual assumes such a power to decide. When an individual goes before the law to obtain a right to die, instead of confronting death, legal institutions evade the issue & instead talk about life, & its sacred & inviolable nature. Yet, in the same move, many exceptions to this sacred quality of life are carved out. One can see an example of this phenomenon in the area of Supreme Court decision making on physician-assisted suicide. In Washington v. Glucksberg, the applicants had died by the time of the Supreme Court's decision. Where did they go? Were they ever really there for the law? The Supreme Court decision attempts to recompose the notion of identic wholeness in the face of bodies associated with death & decay. It is, in other words, an attempt to arrest the process of death by composing a narrative that valorizes life. The case becomes a narrative about the threat to life or, more precisely, a threat to a particular way of life. In other words, the state's interest in preserving life becomes the interest in preserving the life of the state. The state must live on. The question then moves from being one of whether the individual applicant in a case concerning physician-assisted suicide should live or die to one that asks should we the court live or die? 32 References. Adapted from the source document.

"All societies have their own customs and beliefs surrounding death. In the West, traditional ways of mourning are disappearing, and although Western science has had a major impact on how people die, it has taught us little about the way to die or to grieve. Many whose work brings them into contact with the dying and the bereaved from Western and other cultures are at a loss to know how to offer appropriate and sensitive support. Death and Bereavement Across Cultures 2nd Edition is a handbook which meets the needs of doctors, nurses, social workers, hospital chaplains, counsellors and volunteers caring for patients with life-threatening illness and their families before and after bereavement. It is a practical guide explaining the religious and other differences commonly met with in multi-cultural societies when someone is dying or bereaved. In doing so readers may be surprised to find how much we can learn from other cultures about our own attitudes and assumptions about death. Written by international experts in the field the book: - Describes the rituals and beliefs of major world religions; - Explains their psychological and historical context; - Shows how customs are changed by contact with the West; - Considers the implications for the future The second edition includes new chapters that: explore how members of the health care professions perform roles formerly conducted by priests and shamans, can cross the cultural gaps between different cultures and religions; consider the relevance of attitudes and assumptions about death for our understanding of religious and nationalist extremism and its consequences; discuss the Buddhist, Islamic and Christian ways of death"--

"The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity and profitability; dark tourism has emerged as a rapidly expanding industry; and funerals have become less traditional. "Corpse chic" and "skull style" have entered mainstream fashion, while elements of gothic, horror, torture porn, and slasher movies have streamed into more conventional genres. Monsters have become pop culture heroes: vampires, zombies, and serial killers now appeal broadly to audiences of all ages. This book considers, for the first time, these phenomena as aspects of a single movement, documenting its development in contemporary Western culture. Previous considerations of our fixation on death have not developed a convincing theory linking the mounting demand for images of violent death and the dramatic changes in death-related social rituals and practices. This book offers a conceptual framework that connects the observations of the simulated world of fiction and movies--including The Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, Night Watch, Hannibal, and the Harry Potter series--to social and cultural practices, providing an analysis of the specific aesthetics and the intellectual and historical conditions that triggered the cult of death. It also considers the celebration of death in the context of a longstanding critique of humanism and investigates the role played by 20th-century French theory, as well as by posthumanism, transhumanism, and the animal rights movement, in the formation of the current antihumanist atmosphere. With its critique of movie and book blockbusters and the death-related social rituals, festivals, and fashions that have coalesced into the cult of death, this timely volume will appeal to anyone hoping to better understand a defining phenomenon of our age. Scholars and general readers of cultural studies, film and literary studies, anthropology, and American and Russian studies will find this book thought-provoking"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Changing Places: The Local and the Global in Tourist Communities -- 1. 'If It Wasn't for the Tourists We Wouldn't Have an Audience': The Case of Tourism and Traditional Music in North Mayo -- 2. Defining the Local: The Development of an 'Environment Culture' in a Clare Village -- 3. Shaping Tourism Places: Agency and Interconnection in Festival Settings -- Part 2: Performing Heritage: The Globalisation of Tourist Products and Practices -- 4. 'The Cracked Pint Glass of the Servant': The Irish Pub, Irish Identity and the Tourist Eye -- 5. Constructing an Exotic 'Stroll' through Irish Heritage: The Aran Islands Heritage Centre -- 6. 'Come and Daunce with Me in Irlande': Tourism, Dance and Globalisation -- Part 3: The Power of the Gaze: Negotiating Tourist and Native Identities -- 7. Power, Knowledge and Tourguiding: The Construction of Irish Identity on Board County Wicklow Tour Buses -- 8. The Native Gaze: Literary Perceptions of Tourists in the West Kerry Gaeltacht -- Part 4: Imagining Ireland: The Construction of Tourist Representations -- 9. Next to Being There: Ireland of the Welcomes and Tourism of the Word -- 10. Home from Home: Diasporic Images of Ireland in Film and Tourism -- 11. Photography, Tourism and Natural History: Cultural Identity and the Visualisation of the Natural World -- Part 5: Tourism Policy: Historical and Contemporary Issues -- 12. Tongue-tied: Language, Culture and Changing Trends in Irish Tourism Employment -- 13. 'Not Only Beef, But Beauty . . . ': Tourism, Dependency, and the Post-colonial Irish State, 1925-30 -- Index