A researcher, writer and educator, Susan works internationally. 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 actually worked to criminalise and marginalise the poor women who sold food and clothing in the street market that was Cork's Coal Quay. Her articles and book reviews are found on leading social science blogs including the London School of Economics Review of Books, Discover Society, and Sociological Review. Her research and reviews have been published in international peer-reviewed publications.
Susan's lifelong concern with social justice issues, and interests in social policy and power imbalances, comes through in her writing and presentations. The broader topics she covers include women in the 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 to retell them from the perspective of those who were once silenced.
At present Susan is working on projects that include urban change in the MENA and archival research methods. She is currently working on her next book, 'a certain class of business', a historical study of Dublin's women street traders.
Susan's lifelong concern with social justice issues, and interests in social policy and power imbalances, comes through in her writing and presentations. The broader topics she covers include women in the 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 to retell them from the perspective of those who were once silenced.
At present Susan is working on projects that include urban change in the MENA and archival research methods. She is currently working on her next book, 'a certain class of business', a historical study of Dublin's women street traders.
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Shawlies Tribute on Pope's Quay. Photograph by Susan (Cork, 2013)
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PHOTO CREDITS:
Shawlies Tribute on Pope's Quay. Photograph by Susan (Cork, 2013)
Wallpaper: Wooden Cobblestones, Passage Saint-Maur, Paris Photographer: Poulpy Link to photo: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wooden_Cobblestones,_Passage_Saint-Maur,_Paris_-_01.jpg
Link to license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.enNo changes have been made. Licensing terms allow for the copying and redistribution of the photograph in any medium or format.
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