Browsing by Subject "Childhood"
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Childhood, biosocial power, and the anthropological machine : life as a governable process?
(Maney Online, 2014-11)This article examines how childhood has become a strategy that answers to questions concerning the (un)governability of life. The analysis is organized around the concept of biosocial power, which is shown to be a ... -
Empowering children and young people: an access to justice assessment of mental health law and policy
(2016-10-08)This thesis aims to comparatively assess the Irish government’s national, international and regional obligations to respect, protect and fulfil children’s access to justice rights under mental health law, policy and ... -
Family and society in the old Irish and Anglo-Irish elite in Connaught, 1714-1914
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-07)This thesis analyses family relationships within a minority genre in Connaught, or closely associated with the province, between the years 1714 and 1914. Focussing on Catholic and Protestant, Gaelic and Anglo-Irish gentry ... -
Performing the Pied-Noir family: Weaving narratives of memory and identity
(2014-03-10)Although the Algerian war (1954-1962) is now fifty years past, it remains a contentious issue in France. In the aftermath of this particularly violent conflict, the French public was encouraged to forget the hostilities ... -
Refiguring childhood: Hannah Arendt, natality, and prefigurative biopolitics
(SAGE Publications, 2018-05-18)Arendt s concept of natality spans birth and action, which combine to inaugurate the new. Natality is used here to examine prefigurative forms of biopolitics, both past and present. These are practices that seek to actualise ... -
Reimagining the Fourth Age: The ageing mother in the poetry of Mary Dorcey and Paul Durcan
(Nordic Irish Studies Network, 2018)In my analysis of selected poems by Mary Dorcey and Paul Durcan, literary representations of the ageing mother are explored in conjunction with research in cultural and social gerontology relating to the demographic group ... -
Stigma towards Peers with Mental Health Disorders in Childhood & Adolescence: An Investigation into Explicit & Implicit Stigma & Social Reasoning about Exclusion
(2013-09-30)Children and adolescents with mental health disorders are widely reported to have problems with peer relationships; however, few studies have explored the way in which their peers regard these young people. The literature ...