Browsing School of Political Science & Sociology (Scholarly Articles) by Title
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Reframing Online: Ulster Loyalists Imagine an American Audience
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)This article examines one initiative aimed at taking advantage of new technologies to build new transnational connections between a political movement in the ¿homeland¿ and a diaspora population in the United States. It ... -
Reimagining Research and Education in Higher Education - integrating scholarships for sustainable human development
(Commonwealth Secretariat / Nexus Strategic Partnerships, 2014-11-27)This contribution examines key intersections between development, higher education and research. It suggests that the interactions between these domains are neglected and argues that higher education s contribution needs ... -
Researching complex sustainability issues: Reflections on current challenges and future developments
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Revisiting and Reframing the Anthropological Archive: the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936)
(2013)We consider a methodological opportunity when revisiting classical anthropological studies, namely the social anthropological archive of the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936). A gift of the Irish field diaries of Conrad ... -
The road to sustainable transport? Rural transport programmes and policies in Ireland
(Ashgate, 2009-07)Today many rural dwellers in the Republic of Ireland depend on the private car to access services, employment, education, healthcare and recreation and thus shoulder a disproportionate share of the burden of insufficient ... -
The role of an intermediary in back-channel negotiation: Evidence from the Brendan Duddy Papers
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-12)This article draws on the newly available private papers of Brendan Duddy, the key intermediary in contacts between the British government and the IRA between the early 1970s and the early 1990s when the IRA moved towards ... -
The Role of Government
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The role of the citizen consumer: alternative consumer actvisim and the rights to health and development
(Commonwealth Secretariat/ Nexus Strategic Partnerships, 2012)This chapter draws on case-study research to show how networked consumer campaigns have shaped global health governance. It highlights the important, yet under-researched role of Southern health activism in mobilising ... -
Singular Identities Managing Stigma, Resisting Voices
(2000)This paper argues that single women are stigmatised in contemporary Irish society and that this is particularly evident in people's everyday interactions with single women. Stigmatising interactions are apparent in relation ... -
Some Good Clean Fun : Humour, Control and Subversion in an Advertising Agency
(2012-05)This article explores the relation between humour and control, drawing on participant observation in an organization in which humour was central to daily life. Keys is a leading advertising agency whose staff spent an ... -
Someone big and important : Recognition and affect in an international development workplace.
(2012)Psychoanalysis has been widely used to develop our understanding of power in organizations. In this paper, I draw on a case study of a non-profit organization in the field of international development, in order to explore ... -
Spaces of connection and belonging: Young people's perspectives on the role of youth cafes in their lives
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-04-19)A youth café is a relaxed, drug-free and alcohol-free meeting space for young people. The youth café model has become a prominent form of policy provision for young people in Ireland over the past decade, with in excess ... -
Strengthening Development Education Practice in the Higher Education Sector: Reimagining research
(Palgrave, 2014-04)This chapter examines the case for development education research, explores the relationship between research and development education in the higher education sector and considers the implications for development education ... -
Telework isn't working: a policy review
(The Economic and Social Review, 2014)Towards the latter end of the last decade there was growing recognition that Ireland's transport and mobility patterns were unsustainable in the context of their economic, social and environmental impacts and consequences. ... -
Territoriality and Order in the North of Ireland
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-08)This article draws on the recent academic literature on territoriality and power to analyse territorial strategies for the maintenance of public order in the north of Ireland. It argues that these strategies were shaped ... -
Those Letters Keep Me Going: tracing resilience processes in US soldier to sweet heart war correspondences, 1942-1945
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Time divided - Time united? Temporal aspects of German unification
(2002)To illuminate the persisting division between East and West Germany, this article explores temporal aspects of East German culture and their impact on German unification. Arguing that approaches to GDR time in the contemporary ... -
Together in the middle: Back-Channel Negotiation in the Irish Peace Process
(Sage, 2011)This article examines the development of cooperative relationships in back-channel communication and their impact on intraparty negotiation. It draws on extensive newly available evidence on back-channel communication in ... -
Transport policy and governance in turbulent times: Evidence from Ireland
(Elsevier, 2015-12-08)This paper investigates transport policy in the Republic of Ireland before, during and after the ‘Celtic Tiger’ era (1995-2007), to capture how the prevailing governance system responded to rapid economic, political, and ... -
Two sides of the one coin: assessment of students who have previously failed a placement and the role of the practice teacher
(Whiting and Birch, 2014)Why does a student fail? What will be the student s learning needs in any repeat placement? How does the student reflect on their previous placement experience? Can the Practice Teacher provide the appropriate learning ...