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Empathy, social values and civic behaviour among early adolescents in Ireland: Composite report
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2019)
This new century is indeed one of pressing global issues, from climate change to
large-scale migration and displacement – issues that challenge us to exercise our
capacity for empathy, to feel for the plight of those we ...
Empathy, social values and civic behaviour among early adolescents in Ireland: Scientific report
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2019)
At an international level, there is evidence that empathy values, social
concern, and civic engagement are declining among younger generations
as a consequence of the increasing individualisation of society over ...
"They Pulled Me Through the Darkest Times": exploring the social benefits of a women's group in rural Ireland
(Social Care Ireland, 2019)
While much has been written about the importance of women’s groups in the developing world, less is known about whether such groups have relevance in western societies. In Ireland, women’s groups played a key role in ...
Queering the ground: A performative reading of Siniša Malešević’s Grounded Nationalisms
(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 ...
Women’s rights as human rights: 25 years on
(Springer, 2019-05-22)
“Women’s Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights,” by Charlotte Bunch (published in Human Rights Quarterly in 1990), is considered a classic text in the field of women’s human rights. In it, Bunch set ...
Ireland, The Nation and the Woolfs, Part 1
(Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2019-05)
Readers may be familiar with Virginia Woolf s diary entries concerning the shriek of agony that marked the death by hunger strike in October 1920 of the Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney, as well as the violence in ...
A paradigm framework for social work theory for early 21st century practice
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019-03-01)
This article explores whether paradigms for social work that helped structure and focus social work theory in the late 20th century can continue to inform social work theorising in the present day. The question is considered ...
Ireland, The Nation and the Woolfs, Part 2
(Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2019-09)
In The Nation editorials reproduced here from 9 October 1920, Leonard Woolf s succinct, clear writing style, consummate storytelling ability, and forceful declarative statements come to the fore. The opening paragraph of ...
Women, gender and international human rights: An overview
(Springer, 2019-06-26)
This chapter reviews the many achievements of the last 25 years − expressed in the proliferation of laws, norms, and mechanisms − to advance the human rights of women and LGBTQI people and considers in five subsections ...
Some thoughts on other people's attachment to books - and my own
(International Virginia Woolf Society, 2019)
For Nancy Nolan reading was more than a pastime. She was an ardent collector of Virginia Woolf s novels and biographies and she devoured Virginia s essays. Evening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car was a favorite. ...