Browsing School of Political Science & Sociology (Scholarly Articles) by Issue Date
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Echanges épistolaires Echanges épistolaires en anthropologie : l'enquête Harvard-Irlande/ Letters in anthropological research: the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936)
(2011)This article examines a selection of the professional and private letters associated with the social anthropology strand of the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936). These research letters contribute to the historiography of ... -
Family and Community: (Re)Telling Our Own Story
(2011)The contribution of family, kin and community relations to sustaining a rural way of life was the primary focus of Arensberg and Kimball's anthropological study of Irish families in the 1930s, published as Family and ... -
Das neue Mobilitätsparadigma als Regulierungsansatz für die Wechselbeziehungen von Umwelt, Politik und Gesellschaft
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Forgetting and Remembering: Place and Space in the work of Yvonne Cullivan
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Together in the middle: Back-Channel Negotiation in the Irish Peace Process
(Sage, 2011)This article examines the development of cooperative relationships in back-channel communication and their impact on intraparty negotiation. It draws on extensive newly available evidence on back-channel communication in ... -
Developing policies and instruments for sustainable consumption: Irish Experiences and Futures
(Springer, 2011-03)In recent years, the concept of sustainable consumption (SC) has received increased attention. Overconsumption in industrialized countries still presents major challenges to achieving sustainable development goals despite ... -
Territoriality and Order in the North of Ireland
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-08)This article draws on the recent academic literature on territoriality and power to analyse territorial strategies for the maintenance of public order in the north of Ireland. It argues that these strategies were shaped ... -
The role of an intermediary in back-channel negotiation: Evidence from the Brendan Duddy Papers
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-12)This article draws on the newly available private papers of Brendan Duddy, the key intermediary in contacts between the British government and the IRA between the early 1970s and the early 1990s when the IRA moved towards ... -
The role of the citizen consumer: alternative consumer actvisim and the rights to health and development
(Commonwealth Secretariat/ Nexus Strategic Partnerships, 2012)This chapter draws on case-study research to show how networked consumer campaigns have shaped global health governance. It highlights the important, yet under-researched role of Southern health activism in mobilising ... -
Yours Sincerely: Letters and Lives
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The disfigured ontology of figurational sociology: Norbert Elias and the question of violence
(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, ... -
The new wave of childhood studies: breaking the grip of bio-social dualism?
(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 ... -
Someone big and important : Recognition and affect in an international development workplace.
(2012)Psychoanalysis has been widely used to develop our understanding of power in organizations. In this paper, I draw on a case study of a non-profit organization in the field of international development, in order to explore ... -
Dangerously Empty? Hegemony and the construction of the Irish Entrepreneur
(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 ... -
Some Good Clean Fun : Humour, Control and Subversion in an Advertising Agency
(2012-05)This article explores the relation between humour and control, drawing on participant observation in an organization in which humour was central to daily life. Keys is a leading advertising agency whose staff spent an ... -
Doing transnational feminism, transforming human rights: the emancipatory possibilities revisited
(SAGE Publications, 2012-10-24)This article contributes to cross-disciplinary engagement with the idea of transnationality through a discussion of transnational feminisms. In particular, it reviews and responds to some of the more critical readings of ... -
The practices of technology: putting society and technology in their place
(Common Ground Publishing, 2013)Technology is all pervasive in modern society transforming people s everyday lives and work environments. Societal change is coinciding with the ever increasing availability of small, light, and affordable tools for ... -
Putting the 'public' back into public health
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Revisiting and Reframing the Anthropological Archive: the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936)
(2013)We consider a methodological opportunity when revisiting classical anthropological studies, namely the social anthropological archive of the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936). A gift of the Irish field diaries of Conrad ... -
Introduction: Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences Concepts, Methodologies and the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity
(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 ...