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Academic freedom and the eye of power: the politics and poetics of open enclosures
Ryan, Kevin (Taylor & Francis, 2016-06-13)Transparency is both a powerful idea and a technology of power associated with accountability, justice and democracy, which opposes the secretive and shadowy power of surveillance wielded by states and corporations. This ... -
Aesthetics and emotion in an organisational ethnography
Kenny, Kate (Inderscience, 2008-11)In this paper, I argue that an aesthetic approach can help us to better understand workplace ethnography. Ethnography is sensory by nature; it can incorporate a feeling of rightness and beauty in the experience of 'being-with' ... -
Arrive bearing gifts: Postcolonial Insights for development management
Kenny, Kate (Zed Books, 2008)Organizations working in the development sector play an important role in contemporary processes of globalization. The term globalization has many interpretations, but it tends to refer to a certain set of observed societal ... -
The art of democracy: constitutive power and the limits of dissensus
Ryan, Kevin (Taylor & Francis, 2014-10-03)This article engages critically with the normative framing of socially engaged/collaborative art as a consensual/dissensual dichotomy, whereby consensualpractices are equated with political abdication. This way of framing ... -
At a crossroads: investigating automobility and its implications for local urban transport policy design
Hynes, Mike (MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2017-05-05)More people than ever before are living in urban settlements, increasing competition for living space, employment, food, water, and energy. Urbanisation poses many challenges, most notably meeting the basic health and ... -
Bloody Sunday: Error or Design?
Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010)When British Paratroopers shot dead 13 people at a civil rights march in Derry on January 30, 1972 it dealt a hammer blow to British government claims of neutrality and moral authority in dealing with the escalating violence ... -
Bridging the gap: Using Veerman and Van Yperen s (2007) framework to conceptualise and develop evidence informed practice in an Irish youth work organisation
Brady, Bernadine; Canavan, John; Redmond, Susan (Elsevier, 2016-04)While there is considerable support among the policy, practice and academic communities for the idea that practice in youth work should be based on evidence, Veerman and Van Yperen (2007) highlight the fact that little ... -
Bridging the gap: Using Veerman and Van Yperen's (2007) framework to conceptualise and develop evidence informed practice in an Irish youth work organisation
Brady, Bernadine (2016-04)While there is considerable support among the policy, practice and academic communities for the idea that practice in youth work should be based on evidence, Veerman and Van Yperen (2007) highlight the fact that little ... -
The British Army in Northern Ireland. Encyclopedia of Ireland
Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (Gill and Macmillan, 2003) -
Childhood, biosocial power, and the anthropological machine : life as a governable process?
Ryan, Kevin (Maney Online, 2014-11)This article examines how childhood has become a strategy that answers to questions concerning the (un)governability of life. The analysis is organized around the concept of biosocial power, which is shown to be a ... -
Commentary on William Hazleton's: Devolution and the diffusion of power: the internal and transnational dimensions of the Belfast Agreement.
Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (Routledge, 2007) -
Dangerously Empty? Hegemony and the construction of the Irish Entrepreneur
Kenny, Kate; Scriver, Stacey (SAGE Journals Online, 2012-03)In this paper we build on Jones and Spicer's (2009) conceptualisation of the entrepreneur as an empty signifier. We explore the function of the signifier 'entrepreneurship' within a social context marked by crisis: Ireland ... -
The disfigured ontology of figurational sociology: Norbert Elias and the question of violence
Ryan, Kevin (Sage, 2012)This article scrutinises Norbert Elias s figurational sociology byfocusing on its ontological foundations. The analytical spotlight is onthe inherent tension between Elias s stance of normative neutralityand detachment, ... -
Does the work role of Catholic clergy contribute to the disenfranchisement of their grief?
Mooney, Dearbhla (Sage, 2015-09-01)While bereavement-related compassion fatigue and burnout have been studied in many helping professions, this researcher has found no peer-reviewed articles based specifically on bereavement experiences of Roman Catholic ... -
Doping and anti-doping: the excesses of enterprise and the tyranny of transparency
Ryan, Kevin (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19406940.2015.1063529, 2015-07-06)Building on Foucault s theory of the enterprise society , this article situates the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport in the wider socio-economic context, where generalised competition has become a strategic ... -
The farm as an educative tool in the development of place attachments among Irish farm youth
Cassidy, Anne (Taylor & Francis, 2017-04-05)This paper focuses on the educative role of the farm in the development of relationships between young people and the homeplace they grew up on. The paper is based on qualitative interviews with a cohort of 30 Irish ... -
Frames of war: when is life grievable? (invited review essay)
Kenny, Kate (Taylor & Francis, 2010)Sometimes when faced with photographs and videos of terrible war scenes, we are left feeling nothing. Though increasingly exposed to images of the horrors of conflict, we often remain immune, unable to really engage with ... -
Gellner's genealogy of the open society: biopolitics as fragment and remainder
Ryan, Kevin (Sage, 2015)A decade before Foucault began to work with the related concepts of biopolitics and biopower, Gellner posed a series of questions which are suggestive of a similar line of inquiry. Gellner did not pursue this strand of his ... -
Gender, Power and Property: In my own right . The Rural Economy Development Programme (REDP) Working Paper Series
Byrne, Anne; Duvvury, Nata; Macken-Walsh, Áine; Watson, Tanya (Rural Economy Development Programme, 2013-11)Women on farms in Ireland are a subject of feminist analysis for five decades. Salient themes are the constraints of patriarchal agriculture (O'Hara 1997; Shortall, 2004), the invisibility of women's farm work (Viney 1968; ... -
Going Local? Public Participation and Future Mobility in Ireland
Rau, Henrike (Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2007)Recent changes in Ireland's economic and socio-political fabric have coincided with an increase in physical mobility, car dependency and long-distance commuting. National transport policies, prevailing land use patterns ...