Susan Marie Martin Interdisciplinary Researcher & Writer |
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Susan's lifelong concern with social justice issues, and interests in social policy and power imbalances, underpin her writing and presentations. The broader topics she covers include women in the urban margins, gentrification and the displacement of the poor, food insecurity and class inequalities - United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2, 5, 8 and 11. She uses Michel Foucault's methods to 'emancipate histories', using archival materials to unearth and re-examine injustices of the past, retelling them from the perspective of those who were once silenced. She holds a PhD in Social Science from University College Cork.
Her book, The Shawlies: Cork's Women Street Traders and the 'Merchant City' 1901 - 1950 (Four Courts Press, Dublin) examines how government policies designed to protect citizens and revitalise cities worked to criminalise and marginalise the poor women who sold food and clothing in the street market that was Cork's Coal Quay. Her second book, Dublin's women street traders, 1882-1932: 'civic evil' and civil disobedience (Four Courts Press, Dublin) was published in 2025. In November 2025, she was part of a panel discussion on Irish women and resilience across three centuries at the Royal Irish Academy as part of the Dublin Book Festival.
Susan is a guest lecturer and member of the supervisory panel in Food Studies and Irish Foodways at University College Cork. Her articles and book reviews are found on leading social science blogs including the London School of Economics Review of Books, Discover Society, and the Sociological Review. She has published her research in international peer-reviewed publications. She is currently researching a broader study of women and urban informality in Irish cities across the long nineteenth century. Susan's teaching has taken her to posts in The Netherlands, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Morocco. Her country of origin is Canada.
Her book, The Shawlies: Cork's Women Street Traders and the 'Merchant City' 1901 - 1950 (Four Courts Press, Dublin) examines how government policies designed to protect citizens and revitalise cities worked to criminalise and marginalise the poor women who sold food and clothing in the street market that was Cork's Coal Quay. Her second book, Dublin's women street traders, 1882-1932: 'civic evil' and civil disobedience (Four Courts Press, Dublin) was published in 2025. In November 2025, she was part of a panel discussion on Irish women and resilience across three centuries at the Royal Irish Academy as part of the Dublin Book Festival.
Susan is a guest lecturer and member of the supervisory panel in Food Studies and Irish Foodways at University College Cork. Her articles and book reviews are found on leading social science blogs including the London School of Economics Review of Books, Discover Society, and the Sociological Review. She has published her research in international peer-reviewed publications. She is currently researching a broader study of women and urban informality in Irish cities across the long nineteenth century. Susan's teaching has taken her to posts in The Netherlands, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Morocco. Her country of origin is Canada.
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