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Industrial Schools and identification: Revisiting the total institution
(2011)In this paper, I revisit a forgotten empirical site, Ireland's industrial schools. Thousands of children lived and worked in these organizations from an early age until adulthood. They were hidden from mainstream Irish ... -
An informed pedagogy of community, care, and respect for diversity: Evidence from a qualitative evaluation of early years services in the west of Ireland
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-07-03)This article draws on qualitative evidence from an evaluation of the Greater Tomorrow Crèche and Ballyhaunis Community Preschool in Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo, Ireland in 2016. The article focuses on the approach to practice ... -
Interfacing informal and formal help systems: historical pathways to the Meitheal model
(De Gruyter Open, 2016-09)Meitheal is a national practice model which aims to ensure that the needs and strengths of children and their families are effectively identified, understood and responded to in a timely manner. The aim of this article is ... -
Introduction: Arguing about the Environment. What Difference Does Culture Make?
(Peter Lang, 2008)In recent years environmental debate has moved from the margins of public and political life to occupy a key position in discussions on the political, social and economic prospects of the human world. Unprecedented media ... -
Introduction: Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences Concepts, Methodologies and the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity
(Sage, 2013)The necessity to reconcile the needs and wants of human society with the limits of the global ecological system has resulted in proposals for alternative forms of development that prioritise human flourishing and well-being ... -
Irish women's ongoing experiences of domestic abuse in cases of separation and divorce
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-08-02)The issue of post separation abuse is a significant problem for women. This qualitative research examines Irish women s experiences of domestic abuse in cases of separation and divorce. Findings show that methods of abuse ... -
Leveraging new opportunities from the use of web widgets in online Web 2.0 environments
(University of Western Australia, 2010)Over the past two decades the world has experienced a phenomenal rise in popularity of new Internet technologies in the shape of innovative software, applications and services. Online social networking websites, blogging, ... -
Listening to practitioners talking about child to parent violence and abuse: Some findings from an action research project
(Irish Assocation of Social Workers, 2016)Contemporary debates about violence within the family are usually limited to the dynamics and prevention of adult-initiated violence. This largely ignores other kinds of challenges that social workers and other practitioners ... -
Lone parents and activation, what works and why: a review of the international evidence in the Irish context
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2016-09)This research sought to discover those policies, programmes and practices which enable lone parents to engage in employment which will lead to adequate living standards and improved well-being for them and their children. ... -
The longest negotiation: British policy, IRA strategy and the making of the Northern Ireland peace settlement
(SAGE Publications, 2013-11-24)This article offers a new analysis of the Northern Ireland peace settlement through an examination of the pivotal relationship between two key actors: the British state and the Provisional Republican movement that included ... -
Maintaining the mother child relationship within the Irish prison system: the practitioner perspective
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-09-11)There is a dearth of research on the experience of motherhood within the Irish prison system. This paper considers the specific issue of facilitating contact between incarcerated mothers and their children. It is based ... -
Movements, mobilities and the politics of hazardous waste
(Taylor and Francis, 2009-11-11)Global flows of hazardous waste and waste management technologies are major sources of environmental contestation. They reflect political structures and struggles within, and between, developed and less developed countries. ... -
Neoliberalism, the Special Period and Solidarity in Cuba
(Sage, 2008-06)While the Cuban state¿s resistance to neoliberalism and to US dominance in particular, has been vigorous, it is nonetheless subject to the constraints of neoliberal hegemony, and has entailed a degree of accommodation: ... -
New technologies and creative practices in teaching groupwork
(Whiting and Birch, 2017-04-01)This paper introduces the use of new technologies and creative practices in teaching groupwork within two applied Irish postgraduate MA courses (Social Work and Community Development). By reflecting on experiences of ... -
The new wave of childhood studies: breaking the grip of bio-social dualism?
(Sage Journals, 2012)The article takes as its starting point a new wave of researchers who use concepts such as 'hybridity' and 'multiplicity' in a bid to move the study of childhood beyond the strictures of what Lee and Motzkau call 'bio-social ... -
Northern Ireland. In The Encyclopedia of Political Science
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On power, habitus, and (in)civility: Foucault meets Elias meets Bauman in the playground
(Routledge, 2008)Drawing on the work of Foucault, Elias, and Bauman, this article examines how the playground has articulated specific configurations of power/knowledge. Originallydesigned to cultivate virtue and counteract vice, the ...