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Podcast Steering of Independent Learning in Higher Education
(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 ...
Closing the neoliberal gap: risk and regulation in the long war of securitization
(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 ...
Regimes of performance: practices of the normalised self in the neoliberal university
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...