Browsing School of Political Science & Sociology (Book Chapters) by Title
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Consuming distance or (all) consuming work? The case of telework
(Routledge, 2014)The reality of anthropogenic climate change and the consequences for society and environment is of growing concern to many worldwide. Sustainable Development - development which addresses existing human needs while ... -
Epistolary research relations: Correspondences in anthropological research: Arensberg, Kimball, and the Harvard-Irish Survey, 1930 1936
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2017-10)In public and personal archives scattered throughout the United States lie the professional correspondences and personal letters of the Harvard-Irish Survey research team (1930 36) that came to Ireland in the early years ... -
Finding ‘Room to Manoeuvre’: Gender, agency and the family farm
(Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)Women on Irish farms have been a subject of feminist analysis over the past two decades. Salient themes in the literature on farm women have been the constraints of patriarchal agriculture (O'Hara 1997; Shortall, 2004), ... -
Gender and sustainability in rural Ireland
(Routledge, 2016-11-15)This chapter considers if and how gender is relevant for the sustainability of rural Ireland. When we refer to rural sustainability we mean the continuation of the economic, social, institutional and environmental ... -
Governing the future: children's health and biosocial power
(Manchester University Press, 2017-05-31)Hannah Arendt’s concept of natality spans birth and action, which combine to inaugurate the new. Natality is used here to examine childhood as a prefigurative form of biopolitics. This concerns practices that seek ... -
The health and economic costs of violence against women and girls on survivors, their families and communities in Ghana
(IntechOpen, 2019-10-08)Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a worldwide phenomenon. Globally, 35% of women have experienced physical or sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) or non-partner sexual violence in their lives. VAWG is estimated ... -
Ireland's abortion regime on the world stage: Performative acts and the claim to state sovereignty in foreign policy discourse
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Irish field education/social work placement: The making of multi-touch ebooks as a wrap around resource
(Intechopen, 2019-10-04)Social Work placement can be the stimulating experience hoped for or the dreaded experience gained. Professional training values, whether these are influenced by globalization and/or indigenization are principled on the ... -
The methodological issues in the assessment of the quality and benefits of formal youth mentoring interventions - the case of the Czech Big Brothers Big Sisters/Pět P
(Routledge, 2020-09-07)Mentoring is a social phenomenon naturally occurring in the networks of human relationships. The systematic implementation of mentoring principles into the mentoring directed programmes creates a powerful tool for social ... -
(Post) human rights, poverty and inequality: problems of algocracy, pharmocracy and chemocracy
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021-09)This chapter explores new questions for human rights in a context of extreme poverty and inequalities of income, wealth, political power and biological life. Minimalist and contradictory narratives of poverty and inequality ... -
Rural tourism and cultural identity in the west of Ireland
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Secularism, feminism and the public sphere
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Single women in Ireland: a re-examination of the sociological evidence
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Solidarity, equity and rights-based to health provision
(Commonwealth Secretariat, 2015)This brief contribution addresses the central, but neglected principle of solidarity in universal health coverage reforms. Solidarity is the key to understanding rights-based approaches to health, while ensuring a good fit ... -
Surviving necropolitical developments amid democratic disinformation: A pandemic perspective from Brazil
(Bristol University Press, 2022-10-03)The global COVID-19 pandemic poses evolving dilemmas of disease, death, disability, and economic and socio-political inequalities and injustices, as the SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to spread and evolve variants. This ... -
What's smart about working from home? Telework and the sustainable consumption of distance in Ireland
(Research-Publishing, 2013)The use of technology is pervasive in contemporary society transforming lives and work environments. The internet and the availability of portable personal communication devices have resulted in immense societal change. ... -
Women in Irish society: Introduction
(Beyond the Pale Publications, 1997)This text contains 28 chapters on gender-based social science research in Ireland from a feminist perspective. Accompanied by introductions by the authors, sections include Women, Power and Politics; Hidden Lives; Rural ...