SALIS, DCU Launch two Edited Volumes

Three SALIS colleagues, Agnès Maillot, Jennifer Bruen and Jean-Philippe Imbert, will publish two edited volumes in late October 2018, entitled 'Non-Violent Resistance: Irreverence in Irish Culture' and 'Non-Violent Resistance: Counter Discourse in Irish Culture'.

The volume 'Non-Violent Resistance: Irreverence in Irish Culture' by Agnès Maillot, Jennifer Bruen and Jean-Philippe Imbert scrutinises Irish culture through the lens of humour, contributing to an alternative, and sometimes irreverent, reading of events. As John Updike wrote of Raymond Queneau’s witty re-imagining of the Easter Rising, humour can effectively expose ‘casual ambivalence’.

The second volume, 'Non-Violent Resistance: Counter Discourse in Irish Culture' is edited by Agnès Maillot and Jennifer Bruen, and deals with the concept of counter-discourses. Counter-discourses express new and alternative views of the world, in contrast with more established discourses which embody mainstream values, norms, beliefs and attitudes. The essays in this volume assess  the role of counter-discourses as non-violent forms of resistance to the status quo in core domains of Irish social, cultural and political life.