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Governing the future: citizenship as technology, empowerment as technique
(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 ...
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 ...
Reframing Online: Ulster Loyalists Imagine an American Audience
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)
This article examines one initiative aimed at taking advantage of new technologies to build new transnational connections between a political movement in the ¿homeland¿ and a diaspora population in the United States. It ...
Conflict, territory and new technologies: Online interaction at a Belfast interface
(Elsevier, 2007)
This article examines the relationship between new information and communication technologies and territorial boundaries through an analysis of online interaction oriented around a sectarian interface in north Belfast. It ...
Singular Identities Managing Stigma, Resisting Voices
(2000)
This paper argues that single women are stigmatised in contemporary Irish society and that this is particularly evident in people's everyday interactions with single women. Stigmatising interactions are apparent in relation ...
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 ...
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 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, ...
Childhood, biosocial power, and the anthropological machine : life as a governable process?
(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 ...