Dr Steve Coleman

    Anthropology

    Gaeilge agus fáilte

    Lecturer
    MA Creole/MA Linguistic Coordinator

    Rowan House
    1st Floor
    1.04
    (01) 708 3932

    Biography

    EDUCATION:
    University of Chicago - PhD Anthropology 1999
    University of Chicago - MA Anthropology 1987
    University of Washington, Seattle - BA Anthropology 1985

    ACADEMIC WORK AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE    :
    2000 - present - Lecturer in Anthropology National University of Ireland Maynooth

    1993-2000 - Contract Lecturer in Anthropology National University of Ireland Maynooth

    Spring 1998 - Part-Time Lecturer, Department of Anthropology LSB College, Dublin

    1992-1993 - Outside Lecturer in Anthropology (part-time) ST. Patrick's College, Maynooth

    1990-1992 - Instructor (Teaching English as a Second Language: Reading, Grammar, and Speech (to refugees) Harry S. Truman College, Chicago

    1988-1992 - Research Assistant (Analyzing interview data for a research project in applied psychological anthropology) Erickson Institute, Chicago

    PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:  


    2002-present  - Associate, Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin  


    2002 - present - Associate, NIRSA, NUI Maynooth
    2000 - President, Anthropological Association of Ireland  


    1996 - present Co-editor, Irish Journal of Anthropology.  

    PUBLICATIONS (selected):

     
    2003. (Co-edited with Colin Coulter) The End of Irish History? Critical Approaches to the ‘Celtic Tiger’. Manchester University Press.  

    2003. The Centralized Government of Liquidity: Language and Culture under the Celtic Tiger. Chapter in The End of Irish History? Critical Approaches to the ‘Celtic Tiger’, eds. C. Coulter and S. Coleman. Manchester University Press.
    2000. Music and Dialogue. Published by Traditional Music Archive and The Irish Traditional Music Society, University College Cork (Ó Riada Memorial Lecture 13).
    1997. Joe Heaney and Style in Sean-nós Singing. In Blas: the Local Accent in Irish Traditional Music, edited by T. M. Smith and M. Ó. Súilleabháin. Limerick: Irish World Music Centre, University of Limerick.
    1996. Joe Heaney Meets the Academy. Irish Journal of Anthropology 1. 

    Research Interests

    Linguistic Anthropology Irish language discourse and literature Verbal art, music, and performance Minority languages and the nation-state C.S. Peirce's Semeiotic Political Movements Ethnographic Approaches to Literature

    Research Projects

    Title Role Description Start date End date Amount
    The Agri-Cultural Imagination: Ideas of the future of agriculture and their impact on the present / Stuart Lang PI The future is a precarious place, in both reality and in our imaginations. The future, and the past for that matter, have occupied humanity's collective consciousness for aeons. In today's world, the need for understanding our place in the present and how that might impact the future is as great, if not greater, than it has ever been. In the wider context of resource management, global climate change, and social upheaval, there are many threads an anthropologist could follow. But for my research project, I propose to untangle the web of meanings, understandings, and values surrounding the realms of agriculture, horticulture, and technology. I will examine how two forms of agriculture, urban and rural, differ from each other and how these differences impact on practices and discourse within the urban and rural farming communities. Through the use of visual culture, economic anthropology, material culture, and the more novel anthropology of time, I will explore how economic, environmental and technological values influence Irish urban farming. Farming, in its multitude of forms, has been an aspect of human life for millennia. But how we as a species has gone about growing food has changed many times over, whether due to social and economic factors, such as the Irish societal shift from agrarian to industrial, technology, or, as we are facing today, catastrophic environmental change. While the effects of dramatic climate change have yet to coalesce for Ireland, and the current countrywide system of food production works to a certain extent, there are those who are looking to, and creating new and novel practices to combat the destructive nature of industrialised farming. 01/09/2019 31/08/2021 50333.28
    To be a minority: language, place and expressive culture in two minority language communities, the Irish in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht and the Slovenian in Trieste, Italy - Nastja Slavec PI There are many different minority language communities in Europe. Anthropologists who have researched them have mostly focused on language-related issues. Researching language (language use, ideologies, policies) is important, as speaking a minority language is precisely what differentiates people belonging to a linguistic minority from the majority population. However, there are also other aspects or variables that make up the experiences of minority language speakers and that haven’t been given much attention yet. Two such aspects are place and expressive culture. But also adding these two variables to our research still doesn’t have much relevance if we don’t look deeply at the people themselves: what are their experiences in relation to these variables? Are they just minority language speakers or also “minority people”? How is their identity shaped by and expressed through language, place and expressive culture? The project “To be a minority: language, place and expressive culture in two minority language communities, the Irish in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht and the Slovenian in Trieste, Italy” aims to answer these questions by studying and comparing the Irish language speakers in Corca Dhuibhne/ West Kerry on the west coast of Ireland, and the Slovenian minority in Trieste in north-eastern Italy. The project will employ the ethnographic fieldwork method, which will enable to gain a deep intersubjective understanding of the lived realities of minority language speakers. Nine will be spent living and researching in each of the studied communities and two main techniques will be used to gather ethnographic data: participant observation and the person-centred interviewing technique. Building on the researcher’s background as a minority language speaker and on her previous research, and using a comparative approach, the project “To be a minority” will contribute new deeper insights into minority experiences. 01/09/2019 31/08/2023 96000
    GOI scholarship for Kevin Flanagan - City as a Commons PI 01/10/2018 30/09/2020 48000

    Book

    Year Publication
    2018 Coulter C.; Coleman S. (2018) The end of Irish history?.
    2003 Colin Coulter & Steve Coleman (2003) The end of Irish history? Critical reflections on the Celtic Tiger. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

    Book Chapter

    Year Publication
    2022 Sally Ness and Steve Coleman (2022) 'Semiotics in Anthropology and Ethnography' In: Bloomsbury Semiotics, Volume 3. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing. [Link] [Full-Text]
    2020 Coleman S.; Ciosáin É. (2020) 'The Irish Gaeltacht as a trans-local phenomenon' In: Non-Territorial Autonomy and Decentralization: Ethno-Cultural Diversity Governance. [DOI]
    2022 Steve Coleman (2022) '“Sí Teanga na Muintire a Shlánós an Mhuintir”: Ó Cadhain, Rhetoric, and Immanence' In: Tropological Thought and Action: Essays on the Poetics of Imagination. New York : Berghahn Press. [Link] https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800732728 [Full-Text]
    2018 Coleman S. (2018) 'The centralised government of liquidity: Community, language and culture under the celtic tiger' In: The end of Irish history?.
    2012 Steve Coleman (2012) 'Nonsynchronism, traditional music, and memory in Ireland' In: Memory Ireland vol. 2: Diaspora and Memory Practices. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press. [Full-Text]
    2012 Steve Coleman (2012) 'Pobail Urlabhra' In: An tSochtheangeolaíocht: Feidhm agus Tuairisc. Baile Átha Cliath : Cois Life. [Full-Text]
    2012 Steve Coleman (2012) 'Non-synchronism, traditional music, and memory in Ireland' In: Memory Ireland: Explorations in Irish Cultural Memory, Vol. 2. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press.
    2011 Steve Coleman (2011) 'Archival Inscription' In: The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, 2nd Edition. Cork : Cork University Press. [Full-Text]
    2003 S. Coleman (2003) 'Irish Ethnography' In: Brian Lalor(Eds.). Encyclopedia of Ireland. London : Gill and Macmillan.
    2003 C. Coulter and S. Coleman (2003) 'The End of Irish History? An introduction to the book' In: C. Coulter and S. Coleman(Eds.). The End of Irish History? Critical Approaches to the 'Celtic Tiger'. Manchester : Manchester University Press.
    2003 C. Coulter and S. Coleman (2003) 'The Centralized Government of Liquidity: Language and Culture under the Celtic Tiger' In: C. Coulter and S. Coleman(Eds.). The End of Irish History? Critical Approaches to the 'Celtic Tiger'. Manchester : Manchester University Press.
    2000 Dr. Steve Coleman (2000) 'Music and Dialogue' In: to be added. University College Cork : Traditional Music Archive and The Irish Traditional Music Society.
    1997 S. Coleman (1997) 'Joe Heaney and Style in Sean-nos Singing' In: T. M. Smith and M. O. Suilleabhan(Eds.). Blas: the Local Accent in Irish Traditional Music. Limerick : Irish World Music Centre, University of Limeric.

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2010 Coleman, Steve (2010) 'Mobilized sound: Memory, inscription and vision in Irish traditional music'. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 13 . [Full-Text]
    2007 Coleman S. (2007) 'Looking back on some dead world that looks so new: the idea ofthe UN in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq'. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 10 . [Full-Text]
    2006 S. Coleman (2006) 'Bridget Cleary Speaks!'. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 9 :35-36. [Full-Text]
    2004 Coleman, S (2004) 'The nation, the state, and the neighbors: personation in Irish-language discourse'. Language and Communication, 24 :381-411. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    1996 S. Coleman (1996) 'Joe Heaney Meets the Academy'. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 1 . [Full-Text]

    Other Journal

    Year Publication
    2017 Steve Coleman (2017) 'AN BHEOCHAN AGUS AN ‘PERFORMANCE’ I DTRAIDISIÚIN NA HÉIREANN' The European Union and International Dispute Settlement, :22-28.

    Conference Contribution

    Year Publication
    2020 Steve Coleman (2020) Third Annual Joe Heaney memorial Lecture What is the “life” in “living culture”? Galway, NUIG, 22/01/2020-23/01/2020.
    2019 Steve Coleman (2019) 1st ENTAN conference: Non-Territorial Autonomy as a Form of Plurinational Democracy: Participation, Recognition, Reconciliation “The Irish Gaeltacht as a trans-local phenomenon” Belgrade, Serbia, 22/11/2019-23/11/2019.
    2019 Steve Coleman (2019) 44th Annual Conference, Semiotic Society of America Mediation and the “Life” of Signs Portland, OR, 09/10/2019-13/10/2019.
    2018 Steve Coleman (2018) Ó Cadhain’s “living clay” a reexamination Annual Meeting, Anthropological Association of Ireland: Eco-cosmology, Sustainability and a Spirit of Resilience Cork, .
    2018 Steve Coleman (2018) Ordeals of Language, yours and theirs, in ethnographic research MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY ETHNOGRAPHY WINTER SCHOOL 2018: Ethnography in/and/as Institutions Maynooth University, .
    2018 Steve Coleman (2018) Condensed and Insurgent Narratives CREOLE Intensive Programme: Ethnographic Narratives: Stories, Biographies, and Plots Bern, Switzerland, .
    2017 Steve Coleman (2017) Ethnography as Sensory Crossing Creole & SENSOTRA Summer School / Intensive Programme “SENSORY DIMENSIONS OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK” Piran, Slovenia, .
    2017 Steve Coleman (2017) Futures past of 1967 Annual Conference, Anthropological Association of Ireland: Predictive Texts: Imagining the Future Belfast, .
    2017 Steve Coleman (2017) Speaking of Finance: The discursive production of contemporaneity Maynooth Ethnographic Winter School, 2017: Ethnography in the Contemporary Maynooth University, .
    2016 Steve Coleman (2016) The role of poetic speech in cultural cognition: poetic ideologies in Irish performance First International Conference on Cultural Linguistics Prato, Italy, .
    2009 (2009) The Gaeltacht as a type of community ALTE - The Association of Language Testers of Europe, 37th Annual Meeting, Maynooth, Ireland Maynooth, . [Full-Text]
    2009 Dr. Michael Silverstein (2009) The elementary forms of culture in a post-cultural world:Signification–circulation–emanation NUI Maynooth, Social Sciences, Anthropology, .
    2009 (2009) “General intellect” and global culture World Culture and Nation-States: Erasmus Intensive Programme, Vienna Vienna, Austria, .
    2009 (2009) Understanding Recession: What happened to the Irish economy and what is going to happen next? Understanding Recession public forum NUI Maynooth, .
    2009 (2009) Mobilised sound: Memory, inscription and locality in Irish traditional music Spring Conference, Anthropological Association of Ireland Belfast, .
    2009 Dr. Michael Silverstein (2009) A Trinity for the Enlightened: Society, Polity, and Language Community in Anthropological Perspectiv NUI Maynooth, Social Sciences, Anthropology, .
    2009 (2009) Speaking to the archive: Irish tradition and archival inscription Annual Symposium, International Council for Traditional Music, Ireland Dublin, .
    2003 (2003) Scheps Library Friday Series Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, 14/02/2003-.
    2002 (2002) Seventh meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropologists Copenhagen, 20/11/2002-.
    2002 (2002) 101st Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association New Orleans, 20/11/2002-.
    2002 (2002) Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College, Dublin, 29/11/2002-.
    2000 (2000) Representation and Beyond School of Anthropological Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 28/11/2000-.
    2000 (2000) 99th Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association San Francisco, 15/11/2000-.
    1999 (1999) 98th Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association Chicago, 20/11/1999-.
    1999 (1999) Defining Colonies NUI Galway, 18/06/1999-.
    1999 (1999) 'Dis-ease with Post-modern Anthropology: Anthropologists facing towards the 21st century' LSB College, Dublin, 12/12/1999-.
    1999 (1999) Workshop in Interpretive Political Social Analysis Allihies, C. Cork, 01/09/1999-.
    1998 (1998) Winter Meetings of the Anthropological Association of Ireland Thurles, Co. Tipperary, 11/12/1998-.
    1998 (1998) Joint Anthropology-Sociology Seminar NUI Maynooth, 19/03/1998-.
    1998 (1998) Paper presented to Anthropology Society NUI Maynooth, 03/02/1998-.
    1998 (1998) 97th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association Philadelphia, 02/12/1998-.

    Book Review

    Year Publication
    2011 Coleman, Dr. Steve (2011) John Walsh, Contests and Contexts: The Irish Language and Ireland's Socio-Economic Development. [Book Review]
    2009 Coleman, Steve (2009) Review of Fintan Vallely, Tuned Out: Traditional Music and Identity in Northern Ireland Cork University Press. [Book Review] http://journalofmusic.com/article/1028
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    Professional Associations

    Description Function From / To
    Member, American Anthropological Association of Ireland * 30/12/1999 - 30/12/1999
    Member, Anthropological Association of Ireland * 30/12/1999 - 30/12/1999
    Member, European Association of Social Anthropologists * 29/12/1999 - 30/12/1999
    President, Anthropological Association of Ireland * 01/01/2000 - 30/12/1899
    Member, Humanities Institute of Ireland * 01/01/2002 - 30/12/1899

    Recent Students

    Graduation date Name Degree
    2016 Marion Ní Mhaoláin PhD
    2016 Threase Kessie PhD
    2014 Lijing Peng PhD