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Governing the future: citizenship as technology, empowerment as technique
Ryan, Kevin (Sage Journals, 2011)This article examines how citizenship can be deployed as a technology of conduct, and how it combines with the technique of empowerment in instituting the behavioural norms that constitute a neo-liberal social order. It ... -
The "green wave" that never happened: the general election in 2007
Rau, Henrike (Institute of Public Administration, 2010)[no abstract available] -
'He told me to calm down and all that': a qualitative study of forms of social support in youth mentoring relationships
Brady, Bernadine; Dolan, Pat; Canavan, John (Wiley, 2017-02-22)The worldwide growth in formal youth mentoring programmes over the past two decades is partly a response to the perception that young people facing adversity do not have access to supportive relationships with adults and ... -
Heeding the stains: Lacan and organizational change
Kenny, Kate (Emerald, 2009-03)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to add to current discussions on the use of Lacanian psychoanalysis in organizational change. Specifically, It argues that critiques of Lacan's work must be acknowledged and incorporated ... -
Industrial Schools and identification: Revisiting the total institution
Kenny, Kate (2011)In this paper, I revisit a forgotten empirical site, Ireland's industrial schools. Thousands of children lived and worked in these organizations from an early age until adulthood. They were hidden from mainstream Irish ... -
Interfacing informal and formal help systems: historical pathways to the Meitheal model
Cassidy, Anne; Devaney, Carmel; McGregor, Caroline; Landy, Fergal (De Gruyter Open, 2016-09)Meitheal is a national practice model which aims to ensure that the needs and strengths of children and their families are effectively identified, understood and responded to in a timely manner. The aim of this article is ... -
Introduction: Arguing about the Environment. What Difference Does Culture Make?
Rau, Henrike (Peter Lang, 2008)In recent years environmental debate has moved from the margins of public and political life to occupy a key position in discussions on the political, social and economic prospects of the human world. Unprecedented media ... -
Introduction: Contested Landscapes Space, Place, and Identity in Contemporary Ireland
Rau, Henrike (2009) -
Introduction: Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences Concepts, Methodologies and the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity
Rau, Henrike; Fahy, Frances (Sage, 2013)The necessity to reconcile the needs and wants of human society with the limits of the global ecological system has resulted in proposals for alternative forms of development that prioritise human flourishing and well-being ... -
Leveraging new opportunities from the use of web widgets in online Web 2.0 environments
Hynes, Michael (University of Western Australia, 2010)Over the past two decades the world has experienced a phenomenal rise in popularity of new Internet technologies in the shape of innovative software, applications and services. Online social networking websites, blogging, ... -
Listening to practitioners talking about child to parent violence and abuse: Some findings from an action research project
Coogan, Declan (Irish Assocation of Social Workers, 2016)Contemporary debates about violence within the family are usually limited to the dynamics and prevention of adult-initiated violence. This largely ignores other kinds of challenges that social workers and other practitioners ... -
The longest negotiation: British policy, IRA strategy and the making of the Northern Ireland peace settlement
Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (SAGE Publications, 2013-11-24)This article offers a new analysis of the Northern Ireland peace settlement through an examination of the pivotal relationship between two key actors: the British state and the Provisional Republican movement that included ... -
Maintaining the mother child relationship within the Irish prison system: the practitioner perspective
O'Malley, Sinead; Devaney, Carmel (Taylor & Francis, 2015-09-11)There is a dearth of research on the experience of motherhood within the Irish prison system. This paper considers the specific issue of facilitating contact between incarcerated mothers and their children. It is based ... -
Nation and Neighbourhood: Nationalist Mobilisation and Local Solidarities in the North of Ireland
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The new wave of childhood studies: breaking the grip of bio-social dualism?
Ryan, Kevin (Sage Journals, 2012)The article takes as its starting point a new wave of researchers who use concepts such as 'hybridity' and 'multiplicity' in a bid to move the study of childhood beyond the strictures of what Lee and Motzkau call 'bio-social ... -
Northern Ireland. In The Encyclopedia of Political Science
Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (CQ Press, 2010) -
On power, habitus, and (in)civility: Foucault meets Elias meets Bauman in the playground
Ryan, Kevin (Routledge, 2008)Drawing on the work of Foucault, Elias, and Bauman, this article examines how the playground has articulated specific configurations of power/knowledge. Originallydesigned to cultivate virtue and counteract vice, the ... -
The Opportunity of Equality
Byrne, Anne (Roscommon Women's Network, 2014)The Opportunity of Equality , forward to WINDOW project report, (Women Initiating Development Opportunities for Women), Roscommon Women s Network, April 2014 -
Parenting in Direct Provision: Parents' Perspectives Regarding Stresses and Supports
Uchechukwu Ogbu, Helen; Brady, Bernadine; Kinlen, Louise (Taylor and Francis, 2014-04-23)The Irish direct provision system for asylum seekers is acknowledged as providing a very challenging and exclusionary living environment for adults and children. To date, there has been little research focused specifically ... -
The performative surprise: parody, documentary and critique
Kenny, Kate (Taylor & Francis, 2009)Can parody help us to "re-imagine" the organizations and institutions we live with (Du Gay 2007, 13)? Or, like many forms of critique, does parody risk being incorporated: becoming part of the power it aims to make fun of? ...