Browsing by Author "Ryan, Kevin"
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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 ... -
The American Indian movement and the Black Panther party compared: violence, the state and social movements in the USA, 1966 to 1976
Cronin, Míceál Daniel (NUI Galway, 2020-04-30)The concepts of liberal democracy and pluralism evoke themes relating to justice, parity of esteem and the right of equal protection under the law. At the centre of these tenets is a state that is deemed to be both the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Everyday racism in the west of Ireland
Naughton, Anita (2016-09-30)Everyday life might be described as a rhythmic flow of routines and practices that frame social life’s multitudinous interactional episodes. Everyday social life is also punctuated by various types of racism that can be ... -
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 ... -
Governing the future: children's health and biosocial power
Ryan, Kevin (Manchester University Press, 2017-05-31)Hannah Arendt’s concept of natality spans birth and action, which combine to inaugurate the new. Natality is used here to examine childhood as a prefigurative form of biopolitics. This concerns practices that seek ... -
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 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 ... -
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 politics of non-domination: Towards an an-archic critique of neo-republican political philosophy
Farrell, Liam (NUI Galway, 2020-05-08)This thesis offers an an-archic critique and analysis of Philip Pettit’s approach to theorising neo-republican politics and democracy. Neo-republican political philosophy has come to dominate much of the field of contemporary ... -
Queering the ground: A performative reading of Siniša Malešević’s Grounded Nationalisms
Ryan, Kevin (SAGE Publications, 2019-07-16)This comment uses Judith Butler s theory of performativity to engage critically with Sini a Male ević's claim that nationalism is so deeply grounded in everyday social life that it has become omnipotent . The gist ... -
Refiguring childhood: Hannah Arendt, natality, and prefigurative biopolitics
Ryan, Kevin (SAGE Publications, 2018-05-18)Arendt s concept of natality spans birth and action, which combine to inaugurate the new. Natality is used here to examine prefigurative forms of biopolitics, both past and present. These are practices that seek to actualise ... -
Thinking sexual difference with (and against) Adriana Cavarero: on the ethics and politics of care
Ryan, Kevin (Wiley, 2019-03-23)This article engages with Adriana Cavarero's framing of sexual difference, specifically in terms of how this displaces “bodies that queer” (Volcano 2013). For Cavarero, the narratable self is inescapably relational and ...