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As the city fathers squabble over streetcars and sidewalk repairs, an emergent class of artists, "makers" and entrepreneurs are taking the re-development of the deindustrialized downtown into their own hands. My ongoing research in Kenosha examines the reinvention of place in a context where there is no directive policy agenda, where local government and local activists are often working at cross purposes. I ask, what emerges from the fray, and what of Kenosha's industrial past will be drawn into its future? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5907a8e046c3c49694ad0b45/1495642364298-M9L5JJVNY6SO0O86FQME/image-asset.png Research - Imagining a New Belfast You can find my book, Belfast Imaginary: Art and Urban Reinvention at https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793628114/Belfast-Imaginary-Art-and-Urban-Reinvention. Use the discount code LXFANDF30 for 30% off (good until 12/31/23). In it I analyze the role of murals and civic celebrations in the ongoing post-conflict regeneration of Belfast, Northern Ireland. In these artistic creations, issues central to Belfast’s political life—from tourism, physical redevelopment, to European integration—are addressed through carnivalesque play as producers and participants imagine and perform Belfast’s future urban identity. Through my fieldwork I reconstruct the broad networks that fund and organize these public events, reassemble the process of their production, and examine the motivations and intentions behind them. I find that parades play an integral part in the collective negotiations of place. Parades have a role in the semiotics of imagining new futures; they represent, through tropes of multiculturalism and Europeanism, aspirational ideals of a peaceful “New Belfast”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5907a8e046c3c49694ad0b45/1494187051985-0MK1X2FD5SNNS40Z0IJH/043.JPG Research https://www.drkeenan.org/assessment daily 0.75 2017-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5907a8e046c3c49694ad0b45/1499641963235-QBZE5S4HWU3XP46O1HPU/blue+books.JPG Assessment https://www.drkeenan.org/publications daily 0.75 2021-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5907a8e046c3c49694ad0b45/1648746576993-4OLWYJ0YITI8QZ18AGCJ/Keenan_cover+proof-cropped-2.jpg Publications - Belfast Imaginary: Art and Urban Reinvention Out now: Belfast Imaginary: Art and Urban Reinvention. My book focuses on cultural policy and artistic production in post-conflict Belfast. This book shares over 10 years of research on how community and public arts promote a vision of a "new Belfast" throughout a period of political and economic uncertainty. You can order it now from Rowman and Littlefield at https://rowman.com/.../Belfast-Imaginary-Art-and-Urban..., use discount code LXFANDF30 for 30% off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5907a8e046c3c49694ad0b45/1587151037112-ULE3K012OPRN15AR80MR/IMG_6130.JPG Publications - "Reading While Walking" for Teaching Anthropology Journal A discussion of how Anthropologists “Read” urban space, and cross disciplinary boundaries to represent place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5907a8e046c3c49694ad0b45/1496418077768-AFTMFMT7X7SF8O16G5O2/Cover+Image+consuming+st+pats.jpg Publications - Chapter 6: "A New Parade for a New Belfast" In which I examine the symbolism of the 2011 St. Patrick's Day Parade in Belfast, Northern Ireland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5907a8e046c3c49694ad0b45/1496418048683-TT3VB4QSUVQPXW75P54S/evicted+cover+image.jpg Publications - Review of Matthew Desmond's Evicted Review at Sapiens.org of Desmond's excellent ethnographic study of poverty in America's most segregated city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5907a8e046c3c49694ad0b45/1496835852751-7WAI2K6UIUMCIEIKFKJM/AN+2013+cover.gif Publications - Publics and Protests: Grief in the wake of Tragic Events 2013 Essay on Demonstrations of Public Grief in the Wake of Tragic Events. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5907a8e046c3c49694ad0b45/1496834951725-2IB0UNDLG035W0I03DLO/newsletterlogo.png Publications - "Why Would they Come Here" Imagining Immigration in Northern Ireland 2010 Reflection on immigration in Northern Ireland for the Society for Applied Anthropology Student Committee Essay Series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5907a8e046c3c49694ad0b45/1616689228146-CI8YDIJTBSX3SB7KLOYW/IMG_2031.jpg Publications - "Virtual Crossings: Boundaries and Transgressions in Representation and Practice in Belfast, NI" Article Published in Interactive Discourse, Vol. 2, Special Issue on Virtual Reality: Frameworks and Misconceptions. 2010 https://www.drkeenan.org/contact daily 0.75 2019-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5907a8e046c3c49694ad0b45/1494190527790-DYMZ9LX35KAB2QH9OAK0/option8+%281%29.jpg Contact