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Heritage, social justice and Black Lives Matter in Ireland during COVID-19
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2023-07-14
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McAtackney, Laura
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Routledge
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This chapter reflexively examines the role of social media during the COVID-19 pandemic in bringing together issues of social justice and heritage in the context of racism in Ireland. While social media has a global reach, there are often culturally and nationally-specific conversations that take place on social media forums that not only shape wider debates in the mainstream media but can allow for a variety of perspectives and experiences to come into contact that would seldom do so offline. I will use three case-studies–two of which I have been tangentially involved with–to consider how the pivot online has not simply been a social crutch in isolating times but has allowed for broader conversations of social injustice that have been prompted by the pandemic to be explored in detail.
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Heritage , Ireland , Racism , #BLM , Social media , Statues , Language , Fake history
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McAtackney, L. (2023) Heritage, social justice and Black Lives Matter in Ireland during COVID-19, in Shepherd, N. (ed.) Rethinking Heritage in Precarious Times: Coloniality, Climate Change, and Covid-19. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003188438-15
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© 2023, the Author. All rights reserved. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Shepherd, N. (ed.) Rethinking Heritage in Precarious Times: Coloniality, Climate Change, and Covid-19.