Browsing by Subject "Geography"
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Geography militant: resistance and the essentialisation of identity in colonial Ireland
(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 ... -
Geography under threat in Irish second-level education
(Taylor & Francis, 1998)Recent Department of Education recommendations for a revised second-level junior cycle programme in the Republic of Ireland omitted geography from its established position in the core curriculum. This paper describes the ... -
GIS-based advanced spatial analysis of total organic carbon and potentially toxic elements in European agricultural and Irish soils
(NUI Galway, 2022-03-01)With the increasing availability of data in environmental geochemistry, one of the biggest challenges is to extract useful knowledge and interpretable information from large and diverse data sources. The unprecedented ... -
Heidegger, or the neglect of boundaries
(Copernicus Publications, 2015-05-05)Benedikt Korf’s recent invitation to re-think the deployment of Heidegger’s philosophy within geography in the pages of this journal (Korf, 2014) is both opportune and essential: opportune, because the many and continuing ... -
Hijacking the 3Ss to ground reflective co-management of beach-dune environments
(Elsevier, 2021-12-23)The global drive to provide the 3Ss (Sun, Sand and Sea) for the benefit of tourists has been a contributory factor in the parallel deterioration of beach-dune habitats on our coasts. In Europe, this has happened at a time ... -
Humanity’s legacies: historical geographies in the present
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Imperial Geopolitics
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The imperial present: Geography, imperialism and its continued effects
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Irish farm succession and inheritance; an examination of farmers’ economic decision-making strategies as socially-constructed risk assessment
(NUI Galway, 2019-03-28)Intergenerational farm transfer is increasingly viewed as fundamental to the sustainability and development of global agriculture, with an expectation that younger farmers, with more effective and efficient production ... -
Labour agency and the Dubai Irish
(NUI Galway, 2021-03-09)An Irish community has been established in Dubai since 1974, with a surge in those migrating from Ireland to Dubai during the Great Recession (2008-2014). Since 2014 the approximate number of Irish migrants has increased ... -
Liberal lawfare and biopolitics: US juridical warfare in the war on terror
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The Long War: CENTCOM, grand strategy, and global security
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Magnetic and interpolation techniques in the identification and analysis of metal contaminants In urban soils
(NUI Galway, 2019-06-28)Soil pollution has been identified as the third most important threat to soil quality in Europe. There are an estimated ~2,000 potentially contaminated sites in Ireland alone. Metal contamination has been identified as one ... -
Material culture of high-status drinking ritual in medieval and early modern Gaelic Ireland
(2016-01-31)This thesis is the first comprehensive study of ritual drinking vessels of horn and wood from later medieval and early modern Gaelic Ireland. The research provides an analysis of the drinking vessels and offers an ... -
Mediating alternative imaginaries of aid and development: The possibilities and challenges for contemporary NGOs
(NUI Galway, 2020-03-14)This thesis extends considerations around the role that geography can play in disrupting dominant representational tropes through which Global North publics understand distant people and places. Through a focus on NGO ...