In this episode, I chat with my friend and colleague Frederique Carey about her research on Ireland’s surf culture and its links to identity formation through storytelling, something that draws from the country’s ancient bardic traditions, popular culture, and poetry.
In this episode, I chat with my friend and colleague Frederique Carey about her research on Ireland’s surf culture and its links to identity formation through storytelling, something that draws from the country’s ancient bardic traditions, popular culture, and poetry.
Frederique Carey is a lecturer and a researcher at the University of Rennes 2, France, where she teaches courses in International Trade, Marketing and Management, as well as surf economics.
Her PhD research weaves together Celtic sea folklore and myths, anthropology, surf photography and film work analysis to offer an ethnographic study of surfing in Ireland as well as a mythopoetical interpretation of surf narratives and iconography and a market-oriented examination of the place of surfing in the Irish cultural and economic landscapes.
In association with Irish films production company Pockets Full of Water, she is currently working on a documentary series project that is supported by multidisciplinary academic research and structure. Her podcast series “Daoine na Mara – Tales from the Green Shores” was launched in March 2019; it is meant to be a platform for storing and sharing the stories she has collected from surfers along the coast of Ireland, and aims to root the development of a distinct Irish surflore.
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Artwork by Nacer Ahmadi: IG @x.filezzz
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