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"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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Thinking sexual difference with (and against) Adriana Cavarero: on the ethics and politics of care
(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 ...
Ethical dilemmas in the development-security nexus: A human development and capabilities approach
(Centre for Global Education, 2019)
The development-security nexus marks a paradigm shift for development, security and humanitarian practice, with implications for education and development education. This article explores zigzag changes, initially towards ...
Traditional sailing boats, embodied knowledge(s) and dwelling in coastal rural communities: The case of the Galway Hooker in South West Conamara, Ireland
(Elsevier, 2019-10-25)
In the context of a healthy flourishing within rural studies on embodied knowledges and human-nonhuman-nature relations, such a relational focus is of especial significance for coastal places where the relations and ...