Learning Outcomes:
To understand the histories of marginalised communities.
To critically analyse recent and continued marginalisation.
To appreciate the intersectionality of marginalisation.
To identify and evaluate primary sources about marginalised histories.
To expand your methodological toolkit for exploring marginalised histories.
Indicative Module Content:
Psychiatric inpatients: stigma and institutionalisation in theory and practice.
Prisoners: demographic change and agency in the total institution.
Black Irish people: personal narratives and new media sources.
Student research projects: presentations on primary sources.
Intravenous drug users: how class shapes marginalisation.
Travellers: intergenerational structural racism.
Immigrants: localising international news narratives.
Homelessness: Intersectional marginalisation.