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(Post) human rights, poverty and inequality: problems of algocracy, pharmocracy and chemocracy
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021-09)This chapter explores new questions for human rights in a context of extreme poverty and inequalities of income, wealth, political power and biological life. Minimalist and contradictory narratives of poverty and inequality ... -
The social, cultural and environmental costs of hyper-connectivity: Sleeping through the revolution
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021-08-17)This book seeks broader critical engagement with the design, development and adoption processes of contemporary digital technologies. Such technology has been the catalyst for great improvements in the fields of medicine, ... -
Liminal citizenship: Young people's perspectives on civic and political engagement in three European cities
(University of Chicago Press, 2021-06)Concerns about young people s disengagement from civic and political life, particularly disengagement of those from marginalized backgrounds, are prominent in contemporary discourse and increasingly serve as an impetus ... -
Restoring the parental position in the face of emerging childhood challenges with non violent resistance
(Family Therapy Association of Ireland, 2020)Behaviours associated with child to parent violence and abuse (CPVA) and anxiety can paralyse parents and children in a cycle of fear, intimidation and parental accommodation. Psychotherapists and practitioners can also ... -
Initial motivation of mentors in formal youth mentoring relationships
(Routledge, 2021-06-22)The paper presents results of a phenomenological longitudinal qualitative study undertaken with mentors associated with the Big Brothers Big Sisters programme in the Czech Republic. Ten mentors were interviewed during the ... -
Promoting civic and political engagement among marginalized urban youth in three cities: Strategies and challenges
(Elsevier, 2020-06-17)Over the past decade and more, there has been a significant emphasis in western societies on policy processes to engage youth in civic and political life. Concerns about the extent to which marginalized urban young people ... -
Associations between non-parental adult support and youths’ individual and contextual characteristics
(Routledge, 2021-01-15)While the role parents play in supporting young people is well established, support from other caring adults also becomes important during adolescence, particularly when young people are facing problems in their lives. ... -
Challenging behaviour, Non Violent Resistance (NVR) and parents/carers in a time of COVID 19
(UK Editorial Collective, 2020-06-03)Thirteen year old Marie s parents (not her real name), rang their social worker as their daughter s behaviour had worsened since the COVID 19 pandemic closed schools and their workplaces. Marie was fighting with them much ... -
Assessment and decision making under the spotlight: The roles of student, practice teacher, tutor and university in four failed social work placements
(Whiting and Birch, 2021-01-24)In social work education failing placement is a seismic event. There are many complex reasons why placements fail; the student fails the placement, the placement fails the student, the practice teacher fails the student, ... -
Epistolary research relations: Correspondences in anthropological research: Arensberg, Kimball, and the Harvard-Irish Survey, 1930 1936
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2017-10)In public and personal archives scattered throughout the United States lie the professional correspondences and personal letters of the Harvard-Irish Survey research team (1930 36) that came to Ireland in the early years ... -
‘That’s the boat that reared us’. Maritime culture, place and the role of the ‘Galway hooker’ in southwest Conamara
(Routledge, 2020-08-24)The West of Ireland 'Galway hooker' holds iconic status in the region's maritime heritage and identity. In this paper we explore its significance from the perspective ofbadoiri(boatmen or hooker sailors) andsaortha baid(boat ... -
Survivor‐led relational psychotherapy and embodied trauma: A qualitative inquiry
(Wiley, 2020-10-04)Background Childhood sexual abuse has complex and multifarious consequences for one's physical and mental health, including injuries and psychological illnesses such as depression (Psychological Bulletin, 99, 1986, 66; ... -
Rural tourism and cultural identity in the west of Ireland
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Women in Irish society: Introduction
(Beyond the Pale Publications, 1997)This text contains 28 chapters on gender-based social science research in Ireland from a feminist perspective. Accompanied by introductions by the authors, sections include Women, Power and Politics; Hidden Lives; Rural ... -
Single women in Ireland: a re-examination of the sociological evidence
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Gender and sustainability in rural Ireland
(Routledge, 2016-11-15)This chapter considers if and how gender is relevant for the sustainability of rural Ireland. When we refer to rural sustainability we mean the continuation of the economic, social, institutional and environmental ... -
The health and economic costs of violence against women and girls on survivors, their families and communities in Ghana
(IntechOpen, 2019-10-08)Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a worldwide phenomenon. Globally, 35% of women have experienced physical or sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) or non-partner sexual violence in their lives. VAWG is estimated ... -
Development and validation of lost days of labor productivity scale to evaluate the business cost of intimate partner violence
(SAGE Publications, 2020-08-01)Developing scientific evidence showing the impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) on companies' productivity is an effective way to involve them in IPV prevention. However, there are no suitable and brief self-report ...