From 'Route Shock' towards Spatial Justice Mapping Travellers' Storied Places and Mazeways

This article extends Fullilove's research about root shock and displacement by describing two community spatial justice projects led by Irish Travellers (also known as Mincéirs), an indigenous ethnic minority historically oppressed due to their distinctive nomadic culture who continue to experience systemic discrimination. Traveller-led genealogy and community mapping projects extend understandings of displacement, not from located urban neighbourhoods, but from familiar circuits including places. The article describes how younger generations, having inherited the negative effects of this 'route shock', engaged older generations to document, visit, and map Traveller places and mazeways, and in so doing, share stories with younger generations and a wider public that acknowledges Traveller contributions to Irish society.