Browsing School of Political Science & Sociology (Scholarly Articles) by Title
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Echanges épistolaires Echanges épistolaires en anthropologie : l'enquête Harvard-Irlande/ Letters in anthropological research: the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936)
(2011)This article examines a selection of the professional and private letters associated with the social anthropology strand of the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936). These research letters contribute to the historiography of ... -
Editorial: The Spectre of Violence in Graduate Feminist Research
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Emerging feminist research: courage and determination
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2022)This volume is the third edition of Dearcadh journal. When we issued our first call for papers in November 2019, we did not know that the journal’s first three editions would all be carried out in the context of a global ... -
Environmental arguing at a crossroads? Cultural diversity in Irish transport planning
(Peter Lang, 2008-03-28)Environmental argument is 'about' far more than meets the eye. How people (mis)understand each other during environmental debates is affected by conflicts between values and ways of life which may not be directly connected ... -
Environmental gains and social losses? Critical reflections on the sustainability potential of telework
(2014)Anthropogenic climate change and its environmenmtal and social consequences are of increasing concern worldwide. Approaches that advocate a 'greening' of current economic and social systems through technological ... -
Ethical dilemmas in the development-security nexus: A human development and capabilities approach
(Centre for Global Education, 2019)The development-security nexus marks a paradigm shift for development, security and humanitarian practice, with implications for education and development education. This article explores zigzag changes, initially towards ... -
An evaluation of the practicability of the right to development
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2022)Human rights broadly speaking refer to norms, and codes that seek to protect humans from political, legal, and social abuses (Stanford, 2003). In more recent times, concerns for issues involving global and social justice ... -
Evidence-based training of health professionals to inform families about disability
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2013-05-09)Objective The development, delivery and evaluation of a training programme for medical and nursing professionals on best practice for informing families of their child’s disability. Design A 2 h training course on ‘Best ... -
Exploring Good Practice in Child and Family Services: Reflections and Considerations
(Taylor and Francis, 2007)The prospect of furthering good practice in child and family services is something that is in everybody¿s interest, service users, practitioners, policy makers, and academics alike. However, it is a task fraught with ... -
Exploring the intersection of motherhood and work for women working in the NGO sector in Harare, Zimbabwe
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2020)Gender equality, built on the principle of equal opportunities, maintains that women and men’s equality is based on the availability of equal access to resources, funding and opportunities. Through this principle women ... -
Exploring young women’s attitudes towards the feminist movement and popular music artists’ claims to feminism
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2021)The last decade has seen a marked increase in public visibility of feminism. Numerous factors have contributed to this; not least the growing number of celebrities aligning themselves with the feminist movement. This ... -
Family and Community: (Re)Telling Our Own Story
(2011)The contribution of family, kin and community relations to sustaining a rural way of life was the primary focus of Arensberg and Kimball's anthropological study of Irish families in the 1930s, published as Family and ... -
Family-friendly policies and remote work: Revisiting the work-care conflict in a post Covid labour market
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the structure of the labour market, a shift which has had gendered consequences. In particular, women have been disadvantaged by the increased burden of care. The aim ... -
The farm as an educative tool in the development of place attachments among Irish farm youth
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-04-05)This paper focuses on the educative role of the farm in the development of relationships between young people and the homeplace they grew up on. The paper is based on qualitative interviews with a cohort of 30 Irish ... -
Forgetting and Remembering: Place and Space in the work of Yvonne Cullivan
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Frames of war: when is life grievable? (invited review essay)
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)Sometimes when faced with photographs and videos of terrible war scenes, we are left feeling nothing. Though increasingly exposed to images of the horrors of conflict, we often remain immune, unable to really engage with ... -
A framework to inform protective support and supportive protection in child protection and welfare practice and supervision
(MDPI, 2020-04-07)In this article, our intention is to provide an in-depth framework to inform the management of the inevitable complexity of day-to-day practice and supervision in child protection and welfare. It is based on what is now ... -
From care packages to Zoom cookery classes: youth work during the COVID-19 “lockdown”
(Emerald, 2022-03-10)Purpose: This paper explores the experience of one large Irish youth work organisation, Foróige, to measures introduced during the initial phase of Covid-19 in 2020. In the face of the unprecedented crisis including the ... -
The Galway Art Gallery Collection and Roger Fry's The Pond (1921)
(Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 2016)Following fragments of evidence that are suggestive of Bloomsbury-Irish connections, this article concerns Roger Fry, his passion for painting, for people, for places and for new ideas. Charleston, the home of Bell and ... -
Gellner's genealogy of the open society: biopolitics as fragment and remainder
(Sage, 2015)A decade before Foucault began to work with the related concepts of biopolitics and biopower, Gellner posed a series of questions which are suggestive of a similar line of inquiry. Gellner did not pursue this strand of his ...