Browsing School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies by Author "Morrissey, John"
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Book review: Human Incumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine
Morrissey, John (SAGE Publications, 2012-11-15)In 1860, the Irish nationalist writer John Mitchell avowed that ‘The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine’ (from The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps)). The aphorism quickly became ... -
Challenging the political economies of injustice: An interview with David Harvey
Morrissey, John (Royal Irish Academy, 2014)[No abstract available] -
Closing the neoliberal gap: risk and regulation in the long war of securitization
Morrissey, John (Wiley, 2010)When US military commanders refer today to the “long war”, they could more instructively refer to the “long war of securitization”, involving both practices of war and reconstruction that have always been based on a ... -
Contours of colonialism: Gaelic Ireland and the early colonial subject
Morrissey, John (2004)The sixteenth century is critical to our reading of Ireland's subsequent colonial and indeed postcolonial geographies, yet has frequently evaded considered scrutiny for a variety of reasons, including the deficiencies of ... -
Cultural geographies of the contact zone: Gaels, Galls and overlapping territories in late medieval Ireland
Morrissey, John (2005)In writing about the social and cultural geographies of the past, we frequently reinforce notions of difference by using neatly delineated ethnic terms of reference that often superscribe the complexities of reality on the ... -
Envisioning human security – commentary to Gill
Morrissey, John (Geographical Society of Finland, 2018)Prompted by Nick Gill’s review essay, ‘The suppression of welcome’, this commentary additionally reflects on attendant questions of security and responsibility in seeking to conceptualize a more human-centred vision of ... -
Envisioning security for a more-than-human world
Morrissey, John (United Nations Development Programme, 2024-01-03)This paper considers a key securitization challenge that the world faces in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a challenge that centres on discursively envisioning the kind of security required in tackling a ... -
Field-based learning: the challenge of practising participatory knowledge
Morrissey, John; Clavin, Alma; Reilly, Kathy (Taylor & Francis, 2013-05-14)In 2009, Geography at National University of Ireland, Galway, launched a new taught master's programme, the MA in Environment, Society and Development. The vision for the programme was to engage students in the analysis ... -
Foucault and the colonial subject: Emergent forms of colonial governmentality in early modern Ireland
Morrissey, John (Geography Publications, 2012)[No abstract available] -
The geoeconomic pivot of the global war on terror: US Central Command and the war in Iraq
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Geoeconomics in the Long War
Morrissey, John (Wiley, 2015-09-15)In Neil Smith's American Empire (2003, University of California Press), he makes the case that the current moment of US global ambition is characterized by a network of imperial power that is exercised in the first place ... -
Geography militant: resistance and the essentialisation of identity in colonial Ireland
Morrissey, John (2004)In recent years, a growing recognition of the interconnections (in addition to the conflicts) between the worlds of the coloniser and the colonised has enabled the construction of an enhanced collection of differentiated ... -
Governing the academic subject: Foucault, governmentality and the performing university
Morrissey, John (Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-19)Drawing on research conducted at National University of Ireland, Galway, this paper explores how senior managers at an Irish university are seeking to measure and facilitate academic performance in the context of national ... -
Haven: The Mediterranean crisis and human security
Morrissey, John (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020-10-06)[No abstract available] -
Humanity’s legacies: historical geographies in the present
Morrissey, John (Sage Publishing, 2014)[No abstract available]