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Foucault and the colonial subject: Emergent forms of colonial governmentality in early modern Ireland
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Book review: Human Incumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine
(SAGE Publications, 2012-11-15)In 1860, the Irish nationalist writer John Mitchell avowed that ‘The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine’ (from The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps)). The aphorism quickly became ... -
Consideration of coastal risk in the Irish spatial planning process
(Elsevier, 2014-11-29)The vulnerability of coastal areas to associated hazards is increasing due to population growth, development pressure and climate change. It is incumbent on coastal governance regimes to address the vulnerability of coastal ... -
Comments on marine litter in oceans, seas and beaches: Characteristics and impacts
(JSciMed Central, 2015-06-11)Abstract Marine litter is observed along shorelines, pelagic, benthic marine and lake systems all around the globe. On beaches, litter creates aesthetic and related economic problems because a clean beach is one of the ... -
The fetch effect on aeolian sediment transport on a sandy beach: a case study from Magilligan Strand, Northern Ireland
(Wiley, 2016-04-22)Experiments were conducted on Magilligan Strand, Northern Ireland, to assess the influence of the fetch effect on aeolian sediment transport. During each experiment surface sediments were uniformly dry and unhindered by ... -
Geoeconomics in the Long War
(Wiley, 2015-09-15)In Neil Smith's American Empire (2003, University of California Press), he makes the case that the current moment of US global ambition is characterized by a network of imperial power that is exercised in the first place ... -
Securitizing instability: The US military and full spectrum operations
(SAGE Publications, 2015-01-01)This paper examines the recent broadening of the US military’s overseas mission into what it calls ‘full spectrum operations’ and critiques how it is being enabled by what I term ‘full spectrum law’. The paper explores the ... -
US Central Command and liberal imperial reach: 'Shaping the Central Region for the 21st Century'
(Wiley, 2014-11-26)For over 30 years, the grand strategy of one of the most important commands in the US military, Central Command (CENTCOM), has consistently held fast to a commitment to neoliberal capitalism and an ostensibly free-market ... -
Field-based learning: the challenge of practising participatory knowledge
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-05-14)In 2009, Geography at National University of Ireland, Galway, launched a new taught master's programme, the MA in Environment, Society and Development. The vision for the programme was to engage students in the analysis ... -
Participative critical enquiry in graduate field-based learning
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-10-09)This paper outlines a critical pedagogic approach to field-based learning (FBL) at graduate level. Drawing on student experience stemming from a FBL module and as part of an MA programme in Environment, Society and ... -
Governing the academic subject: Foucault, governmentality and the performing university
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-19)Drawing on research conducted at National University of Ireland, Galway, this paper explores how senior managers at an Irish university are seeking to measure and facilitate academic performance in the context of national ... -
Interview with Séamus Grimes, Emeritus Professor, NUI Galway, Ireland
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The moral dimension of third world development
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 1997)The 1987 Encyclical of Pope John Paul II, Solicitudo Rei Socialis is a most remarkable statement on the problem of development, particularly in relation to the Third World. While following the tradition of the social ... -
Economic well-being in the Ballymote rural area: myth and reality
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 1996)Despite the many negative indicators such as falling population and high emigration which are characteristic of the Northwest, the town of Ballymote appears to be booming. In explaining this apparent contradiction, ... -
Impact of crime on the rural elderly
(Irish Medical Organisation, 1990-03)Two hundred and seven persons over 65 years of age were interviewed to determine the impact of crime on their lives. The setting was during a much publicised series of assaults on the rural elderly in their homes. Seventy ... -
Fortification in the North (1200 -1600)
(Aarhus University Press, 2011-11)This paper looks at different types of fortification used across north-west Europe between the twelfth and arly seventeenth centuries. These incude castles, town walls, artillery fortifications, linear fortifications, ... -
Geophysical Survey at Rathcroghan 2010-2012
(Navan Research Group, 2016)Following an extensive programme of geophysical survey at Rathcroghan published in 2009, five hitherto unexplored areas were surveyed using magnetic gradiometry in 2010–12. In an area south of Oweynagat a faint circular ... -
Challenging the political economies of injustice: An interview with David Harvey
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Placing Ireland's transition to a knowledge economy within a global context
(Edward Elgar, 2005)Throughout most of the 20th century the Republic of Ireland suffered from persistently high unemployment and chronic emigration and as a result employment creation drove industrial policy. During a period of rapid growth ...