Browsing Geography (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Morrissey, John"
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Book review: Human Incumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine
Morrissey, John (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 ... -
Closing the neoliberal gap: risk and regulation in the long war of securitization
Morrissey, John (Wiley, 2010)When US military commanders refer today to the “long war”, they could more instructively refer to the “long war of securitization”, involving both practices of war and reconstruction that have always been based on a ... -
Contours of colonialism: Gaelic Ireland and the early colonial subject
Morrissey, John (2004)The sixteenth century is critical to our reading of Ireland's subsequent colonial and indeed postcolonial geographies, yet has frequently evaded considered scrutiny for a variety of reasons, including the deficiencies of ... -
Cultural geographies of the contact zone: Gaels, Galls and overlapping territories in late medieval Ireland
Morrissey, John (2005)In writing about the social and cultural geographies of the past, we frequently reinforce notions of difference by using neatly delineated ethnic terms of reference that often superscribe the complexities of reality on the ... -
Envisioning human security – commentary to Gill
Morrissey, John (Geographical Society of Finland, 2018)Prompted by Nick Gill’s review essay, ‘The suppression of welcome’, this commentary additionally reflects on attendant questions of security and responsibility in seeking to conceptualize a more human-centred vision of ... -
Field-based learning: the challenge of practising participatory knowledge
Morrissey, John; Clavin, Alma; Reilly, Kathy (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 ... -
Geoeconomics in the Long War
Morrissey, John (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 ... -
Geography militant: resistance and the essentialisation of identity in colonial Ireland
Morrissey, John (2004)In recent years, a growing recognition of the interconnections (in addition to the conflicts) between the worlds of the coloniser and the colonised has enabled the construction of an enhanced collection of differentiated ... -
Governing the academic subject: Foucault, governmentality and the performing university
Morrissey, John (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 ... -
Imperial Geopolitics
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Ireland's Great War: Representation, Public Space and the Place of Dissonant Heritages
Morrissey, John (2006) -
Lessons in American Geopolitik: Kaplan and the Return of Spatial Absolutism
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Liberal Lawfare and Biopolitics: US Juridical Warfare in the War on Terror
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Mobilising the language of emergency: Human security and climate action discourse
Morrissey, John (Royal Irish Academy, 2020)This paper considers the UN's 1994 concept of human security as indispensable in progressively framing climate security discourse. It argues for a human security agenda that encapsulates a broad and integrated security ... -
Participative critical enquiry in graduate field-based learning
Reilly, Kathy; Clavin, Alma; Morrissey, John (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 ... -
Planetary precarity and 'More-Than-Human Security' : The securitization challenge in the aftermath of COVID-19
Morrissey, John (Librello, 2021-07-09)COVID-19 has elevated anew the import of holistically conceiving human-environmental well-being and tackling the overarching precarities of our ecologies, societies and public health in strategies of securitization. This ... -
Podcast Steering of Independent Learning in Higher Education
Morrissey, John (2012)Podcasting in higher education is a relatively new development that emerged mainstream in the latter part of the last decade (Stoerger, 2006; Salmon and Edirisingha, 2008). Since then, academics have variously begun to ... -
Regimes of performance: practices of the normalised self in the neoliberal university
Morrissey, John (Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-07)Universities today inescapably find themselves part of nationally and globally competitive networks that appear firmly inflected by neoliberal concerns of rankings, benchmarking and productivity. This, of course, has in ... -
Review of 'Cultural Geography: A Critical Dictionary of Key Concepts (ed. D. Atkinson et al.)'
Morrissey, John (2006)