Browsing Geography by Subject "Geography"
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A booming country- a booming countryside? The Celtic Tiger phenomenon and the consequences for rural areas
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Challenges for coastal management in Ireland. Case study: The Maharees, Castlegregory, County Kerry
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Closing the neoliberal gap: risk and regulation in the long war of securitization
(Wiley, 2010)When US military commanders refer today to the “long war”, they could more instructively refer to the “long war of securitization”, involving both practices of war and reconstruction that have always been based on a ... -
Contours of colonialism: Gaelic Ireland and the early colonial subject
(2004)The sixteenth century is critical to our reading of Ireland's subsequent colonial and indeed postcolonial geographies, yet has frequently evaded considered scrutiny for a variety of reasons, including the deficiencies of ... -
Cultural geographies of the contact zone: Gaels, Galls and overlapping territories in late medieval Ireland
(2005)In writing about the social and cultural geographies of the past, we frequently reinforce notions of difference by using neatly delineated ethnic terms of reference that often superscribe the complexities of reality on the ... -
Field characterization of three-dimensional lee-side airflow patterns under offshore winds at a beach-dune system
(American Geophysical Union, 2013-05-22)Characterization of three-dimensional (3D) airflow remains elusive within a variety of environments and is particularly challenging over complex dune topography. Previous work examining airflow over and in the lee of dunes ... -
Field-based learning: the challenge of practising participatory knowledge
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-05-14)In 2009, Geography at National University of Ireland, Galway, launched a new taught master's programme, the MA in Environment, Society and Development. The vision for the programme was to engage students in the analysis ... -
The geoeconomic pivot of the global war on terror: US Central Command and the war in Iraq
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Geography militant: resistance and the essentialisation of identity in colonial Ireland
(2004)In recent years, a growing recognition of the interconnections (in addition to the conflicts) between the worlds of the coloniser and the colonised has enabled the construction of an enhanced collection of differentiated ... -
Geography under threat in Irish second-level education
(Taylor & Francis, 1998)Recent Department of Education recommendations for a revised second-level junior cycle programme in the Republic of Ireland omitted geography from its established position in the core curriculum. This paper describes the ... -
Hijacking the 3Ss to ground reflective co-management of beach-dune environments
(Elsevier, 2021-12-23)The global drive to provide the 3Ss (Sun, Sand and Sea) for the benefit of tourists has been a contributory factor in the parallel deterioration of beach-dune habitats on our coasts. In Europe, this has happened at a time ... -
Humanity’s legacies: historical geographies in the present
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Imperial Geopolitics
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The imperial present: Geography, imperialism and its continued effects
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)[No abstract available]