Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Author "Haugaard, Mark"
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After the end of history: Utopia, cities, and the populist imagination
Bierema, Sebastiaan Broeils (NUI Galway, 2023-06-14)Following the electoral success of populist movements in Europe and the Americas throughout the 2010s, liberal democracy is widely believed to be in crisis—a stark contrast to its jubilant victory over alternative ... -
Emotions & social change in Ireland: Exploring habitus shift in liquid modernity
Heaney, Jonathan G. (2013-10-17)Drawing on insights from a range of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, history, politics, but particularly sociology and sociological theory, this thesis explores the relationship between emotions and social ... -
Freedom,power and relational equality: republican justice in diverse societies
Savery, Daniel (2016-09-30)This thesis is my response to a view of republicanism that has become orthodox among contemporary political theorists. On that view, when we are talking about what it means to be treated as free and equal in a republic we ... -
Governmentality and the Performativity of the Asylum Process
Dagg, Jennifer (2012-09-28)This thesis is about the construction and performance of subject positions. Specifically, these include the subject position refugee and its negative constituent the bogus asylum seeker. Such a construction has over time ... -
Resistance and mobilization of power: the case of Irish senior citizens
Javornicky, Martin (NUI Galway, 2019-01-31)In October 2008, the Irish pensioners engaged in nation-wide public campaign of dissent in response to the government decision to abolish the universal access to medical card for the over-70s, which culminated in the largest ...