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geopolitics & governmentality RESEARCH cluster

The Geopolitics and Governmentality Research Cluster is concerned with interrogating the multiple practices of interventionism, development and securitization in our contemporary world and their consequent contested forms of governmentality. Running through much of the cluster's research is a focus on the intricate interconnections between discursive and material productions of space, particularly in the complex contexts of postcolonialism, neoliberalism and environmental justice. In critiquing abstract geopolitical, geoeconomic and developmental forms of interventionism, a key concern is to theorise and insist upon more humane, nuanced and critical human geographies.

Environmental Change
Geopolitics & Governmentality
Planning & Sustainability
Rural Studies

Contact: Dr John Morrissey

faculty Members

- Dr Alma Clavin
- Dr Patrick Collins
- Dr Valerie Ledwith
- Dr John Morrissey
- Dr Kathy Reilly
- Dr Anna Stanley
- Prof. Ulf Strohmayer

Graduate students

PhD candidates

- Diego Andreucci, 'Green neoliberalism & its discontents: development, free-market environmentalism & indigenous peoples in Peru'
- Stephanie Egan, 'The Irish-Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and the production of knowledge'
- Nikki James, 'Transnational identity and a sense of place amongst immigrant youth in Ireland'
- Tony Johnston, 'Commodification of dark tourism space in the Balkans'

MLitt candidates

- Joseph Dollard, 'Iconography, national identity and church architecture in Ireland, 1880-2010'

research projects

Clinton Institute: War and American Identity

IRCHSS: CENTCOM and US Geopolitical Grand Strategy in the Middle East, 1983-2003

Royal Irish Academy Geographical Sciences Committee: The Geography of Climate Justice

Recent funding success

Dr John Morrissey and Dr Kathy Reilly have recently won an NUIG Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI) research grant in support of the Field-Based Learning module of the MA in Environment, Society and Development. The module brings together the overall vision of the MA programme by civically engaging students on fieldwork in Bosnia, where they intersect with the work of the European Union, NGOs and United Nations agencies such as the UNDP Bosnia. Funding will be used to extend civic engagement initiatives there with a view to bridging what has been oft-highlighted in development studies as the disconnect between academic and practitioner work. Collaborative initiatives between the academy, international development practitioners and communities may be rarely embarked upon, but both the pedagogic and community gains in seeking to facilitate more critical, informed and participatory forms of development are considerable and indeed inspiring.

Publications

E. Oldroyd and A. Clavin (2012) 'Nested Scales and Design Activism: An Integrated Approach to Food Growing in Inner City Leeds', in: A. Viljoen and J. Wiskerke (eds) European Sustainable Food Planning, Wagenigen Academic Publishers, Wagenigen, pp. 405-419

A. Clavin (2011) 'Realising Ecological Sustainability in Community Gardens: A Capability Approach', Local Environment, Vol. 16 (10): 945-962

A. Clavin (2011) 'User Perspective: How and Why Children Use Ecological Urban Space', Urban Design and Planning: Journal of the Institute of Civil Engineers, Vol. 16 (DP1): 7-9

A. Clavin (2009) 'Community Gardening: Skills for Building Community and Working within Environmental Limits', in: A. Stibbe (ed.) Sustainability Literacy, Green Books, Totnes, pp. 70-77

P. Collins (2012) 'Dualistic Policy Approaches: Ireland’s Industrial Past and Future', Transnational Corporations (forthcoming)

P. Collins (2011) 'Cost Competitive Places: The Shifting Competitiveness of Dell’s Irish Operations', European Urban and Regional Studies, 18(4): 406-426

P. Collins and F. Fahy (2011) 'Culture and Creativity: A Case Study from the West of Ireland', Cities, Vol. 28 (1): 28-35

D. Pontikakis and P. Collins (2010) 'Geographically Differentiated Competition as Determinant of the Diffusion of Broadband: Evidence from Irish SMEs', Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 34 (3): pp 117-184

V. Ledwith (2010) 'The Influence of Open Enrollment on Scholastic Achievement among Public School Students in Los Angeles', American Journal of Education Vol. 116 (2): 243-262

V. Ledwith (2009) 'Open Enrolment and Student Sorting in Public Schools: Evidence from Los Angeles County', Environment and Planning A, Vol. 41 (5): 1109-1128

V. Ledwith and W.A.V. Clark (2007) 'The Effect of the Residential Mosaic and "White flight" on Public School Composition: Evidence from Los Angeles County', Urban Geography, Vol. 28 (2): 160-180

W.A.V. Clark and V. Ledwith (2007) 'How Much Does Income Matter in Neighborhood Choice?' Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 26 (2): 145-161

J. Morrissey (2011) 'Architects of Empire: The Military-Strategic Studies Complex and the Scripting of US National Security', Antipode, Vol. 43 (2): 435-470 ( DOI )

J. Morrissey (2011) 'Liberal Lawfare and Biopolitics: US Juridical Warfare in the War on Terror', Geopolitics, Vol. 16 (2): 280-305 ( DOI )

J. Morrissey (2011) 'Closing the Neoliberal Gap: Risk and Regulation in the Long War of Securitization', Antipode, Vol. 43 (3): 874-900 ( DOI )

J. Morrissey (2009) 'The Geoeconomic Pivot of the Global War on Terror: US Central Command and the War in Iraq', in D. Ryan and P. Kiely (eds) America and Iraq: Policy-Making, Intervention and Regional Politics, Routledge, New York, pp. 103-122 ( PDF )

K. Reilly (2006) 'Cultural Theory and Educational Practice: A Focus on Bourdieu’s Habitus, Bernstein’s Discourse and the Canvey Island Region', Chimera, Vol. 21

K. Reilly and V. Ledwith (2012 - under review) 'Two Tiers Emerging? School Choice and Educational Achievement Disparities among Migrant and Non-Migrant Youth in Galway City’, Population, Space and Place

K. Reilly (2012 - in preparation) 'Aspired Transitions: Exploring Youth Perceptions of Opportunity', Children’s Geographies

K. Reilly (2012 - in preparation) 'Habitus, Capital and Field: What use for Bourdieu in Geography?', Geography Compass

U. Strohmayer (2012) Key Concepts in Historical Geography. Sage, London (forthcoming) (co-written with J. Morrissey, D. Nally and Y. Whelan)

U. Strohmayer (2010) ' Bridges. Different Conditions of Mobile Possibilities', in: T. Cresswell and P. Merriman (eds) Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects, Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 119-136

U. Strohmayer (2007) 'Engineering Vision: the Pont-Neuf in Paris and Modernity', in: A. Cowan and J. Steward (eds) The City and the Senses: Urban Culture since 1500, Ashgate, Basingstoke, pp. 75-92

U. Strohmayer (2007) 'Ireland as a Civil Society: Public Space, the Common Good and Private Desires in Galway', in: T. McDonough et al. (eds) Re-thinking Irish Democracy. Arlen House, Galway, pp 17-58

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This page was last updated Friday, May 11, 2012