Dr. Ricca Edmondson B.A., D.Phil.
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Biography:
| Ricca Edmondson studied philosophy and political theory at the University of Lancaster before writing a D.Phil. in Oxford in the theory of the social sciences. She taught philosophy at universities in Berlin, also working as a translator, before doing post-doctoral research on the sociology of organisations at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development there. She is now a member of the School of Political Science and Sociology at NUIG, Co-Chair of the Social Sciences Research Centre, and founder of the Galway Wisdom Project. She is member of the Executive Committee of the European Sociological Association and an editor of the ESA's forthcoming journal, The European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, appearing with Routledge from 2014. Her research centres on four interconnected, interdisciplinary areas: the sociality of reasoning and rhetorical argumentation; understanding phenomena connected with ‘wisdom’, and developing new techniques for doing so; issues connected with the life course and life-course meaning; and interculturality, translation and qualitative methods in the social and political sciences. (Please see section on Research for further details.) Since 1999 Ricca Edmondson has been a member of the Board of Research Network 1 (Ageing) in the ESA; she is also a Board member of the corresponding Research Committee in the International Sociological Association. On several occasions she has co-organised ESA RN1 international meetings as Chair of its committee. She has also organized a sequence of further conferences and workshops, in Galway and abroad. These include an international conference she organised on Ageing and Values in NUI,Galway in 2006; she is now co-organising the 8th International Conference on Cultural Gerontology, to be held in Galway in 2014. In 2003 Ricca Edmondson obtained a Senior Research Fellowship from the Irish Council for Humanities and Social Sciences. More recently she has carried out research at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, and at the Institute of Philosophy in the University of Potsdam. She currently has a DAAD grant to carry out work at the universities of Vechta and Potsdam, Germany. She is a former editor of The Irish Journal of Sociology and a member of the Editorial Boards of a number of journals, including Ageing and Society, European Societies, Revista Sociologia, the Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies, and Ecopolitics. |
Research Interests
| Ricca Edmondson’s research sets out to combine techniques from the social and political sciences, philosophy, and the theory of argumentation. It deals with the following interlinked, interdisciplinary themes: Reasoning and the sociality of reasoning; she uses approaches derived from Aristotelian rhetoric to embrace potentially positive accounts of argumentation rather than concentrating on manipulation and fallacy, though it does not ignore these (particularly where the impact of social and political power on argumentation is concerned, for example in connection with the environment). This interest has led also to her work on understanding phenomena connected with the excellent forms of reasoning and behaving grasped as ‘wisdom’; she has developed a blend of philosophical and ethnographic methods for elucidating what is going on when people behave in a way that is considered, or can be argued to be, ‘wise’. This work is also intended to combat ageism by elucidating positive contributions made by people in later stages of the life course. Concentrating on issues connected with the life course, including the question of life-course meaning, Ricca Edmondson has been a member of the steering committee of Research Network 1 (Ageing) in the ESA since 1999, on several occasions co-organising its international meetings, among many other conferences and workshops. She is also a Board member of the corresponding Research Committee in the International Sociological Association. She organised an international conference on Ageing and Values in NUI,Galway in 2006 and is co-organising the 8th International Conference on Cultural Gerontology in NUIG in 2014. This work cannot be carried out without a substantial interest in interculturality, translation and qualitative methods in the social sciences. This combination too relies on interdisciplinary techniques for elucidating meaning in different areas of everyday and public life. Recent international conferences (co-)organised in these connections include 2012 International Workshop on Wise Practices, Imagination and the Toleration of Diversity, National University of Ireland, Galway; June. 2011 Research Network on Ageing, Conference of European Sociological Association, Geneva, Switzerland; September. 2009 Research Network on Ageing, Conference of European Sociological Association, Lisbon, Portugal; September.. 2007 Research Network on Ageing, Conference of European Sociological Association, Glasgow, Scotland; September. 2006 International Symposium on Ageing and Values, NUIG; October. |
Books
| Edmondson, R. (2013) Ageing, Insight and the Life Course: Social Practices and Intergenerational Wisdom. Bristol: Bristol: Policy Press. [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (1998) Ireland: Society and Culture. Hagen, Germany: Distance University Hagen. [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (1987) Rules and Norms in the Sociology of Organisations. Berlin: Max Planck Institute for Human Development. [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (1984) Rhetoric in Sociology. London: Macmillan. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| Edmondson, R. (2013) 'A Social Interpretation of Personal Wisdom' In: Michel Ferrari and Nic Weststrate, eds, The Scientific Study of Personal Wisdom: From Contemplative Traditions to Neuroscience. Dordrecht: Springer. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R. (2013) 'Cultural Gerontology in Europe' In: Katrin Komp and Marja Aartsen, eds, Growing Old in Europe: A Textbook of Gerontology. New York, Springer. Amsterdam: Springer. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R., Rau, H. (2013) 'Time and Sustainability' In: in Fahy, F. and Rau, H. (eds) Methods of Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences. London: SAGE. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R. (2013) 'The Sociology of Ageing' In: Tom Dening and Alan Thomas, eds, The Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry (5th Edition) (Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R., Hulser, K. (2012) 'Intergrated Practical Reasoning' In: Politics of Practical Reasoning: Integrating Action, Discourse and Argument. Lanham, MD: Lexington. [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (2012) 'Practical Reasoning in Place: Tracing ‘Wise’ Inferences in Everyday Life' In: Politics of Practical Reasoning: Integrating Action, Discourse and Argument. Lanham, MD: Lexington. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R. (2011) 'Ageing in Ireland' In: Sheyeng Chen and Jason Powell (eds) Global Aging. New York: Nova Science. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R. (2009) 'Wisdom: A Humanist Approach to Valuing Older People' In: Edmondson, R.; von Kondratowitz, H.J (eds). Valuing Older People: A Humanist Approach to Ageing. Bristol: Policy Press. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R. & von Kondratowitz, HJ. (2009) 'Introduction: Valuing Ageing in the Contemporary World' In: Ricca Edmondson and Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz, Valuing Older People: Towards a Humanistic Gerontology. Bristol: Policy Press. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R., Rau, H. (2008) 'Introduction: Environmental Arguing and Interculturality' In: Ricca Edmondson and Henrike Rau, eds, Environmental Argument and Cultural Difference: Locations, Fractures and Deliberations. Oxford: Peter Lang. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R. (2008) 'Intercultural Rhetoric, Environmental Reasoning and Wise Argument' In: Edmondson, R.; Rau, H (eds). Environmental Argument and Cultural Difference: Locations, Fractures and Deliberations. Oxford, Peter Lang. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R. (2007) 'Rhetorics of Social Science: Sociality in Writing and Inquiry' In: Outhwaite, W.; Turner, S (eds). The Handbook of Social Science Methodology. London, Sage. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R. (2003) 'Interreligiöses Verstehen: Kultursoziologische Probleme und Paradoxien' In: in Michael Bongardt, Rainer Kampling and Markus Woerner, eds, Verstehen an der Grenze: Beitraege zur Hermeneutik interkultureller und interreligioeser Kommunikation. Muenster: Aschendorff Verlag. [Details] |
| Edmondon, R., O'Murchadha, N. (2002) 'Learning from Talking to Travellers' In: in John M. Kirk and Donall P. O Baoill, eds, Travellers and their Language. Belfast Studies in Language, Culture and Politics. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R. (2002) 'Silence and the Golden Years: Older People in Ireland' In: In George Taylor (ed) Issues in Irish Public Policy. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R. (2002) 'Studying Civic Culture Ethnographically and what it tells us about Social Capital: Communities in the West of Ireland' In: in Eric Uslaner and Paul Dekker, eds, The Politics of Everyday Life. London: Routledge. [Details] |
| Byrne, A., Edmondson, R., Varley, T. (2001) 'Arsensberg and Kimball and Anthropological Research in Ireland: Introduction to the Third Edition' In: Arensberg, C.; Solon, K (eds). Family and Community in Ireland, CLASP. Clare, IRELAND: CLASP. [ARAN Link] [Details] |
| Edmondson, R., Byrne, A., Varley, T. (2001) 'Anthropological Research in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Introduction to the Third Edition of Family and Community in Ireland' In: Ennis: CLASP Press. Ennis: CLASP Press. [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (2000) 'Writing between worlds' In: (Re)Searching Women: Feminist Research Methodologies in the Social Sciences in Ireland. Dublin: IPA Press. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R. (2000) 'Health Promotion and the Study of Cultural Practices' In: in Edmondson and Kelleher, eds, Health Promotion: New Discipline or Multi-Discipline? Dublin: Irish Academic Press. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R., Kelleher, C. (2000) 'Introduction' In: in Health Promotion: New Discipline or Multi-Discipline. [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (1997) ''Older People and Life-Course Construction in Ireland' In: The Sociology of Health and Illness in Ireland. Dublin: UCD Press. [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson and Frank Nullmeier (1997) ''Knowledge, Rhetoric and Political Action in Context'' In: The Political Context of Collective Action. London: Routledge. [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson, ed. (1997) 'Introduction: The Context of Collective Political Action' In: The Political Context of Collective Action. London: Routledge. [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (1995) 'Reasoning in the Social World: Prolegomenon to a Sociology of Argument' In: K. Gavroglu, Marx Wartofsky et al (eds). Science, Politics and Social Practice. Dordrecht: Kluwer. [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (1994) 'Rhetoric and Truthfulness: Reporting in the Social Sciences' In: Richard Harvey Brown (eds). Postmodern Representations: Truth, Power and Mimesis in the Human Sciences and Public Culture. Champaign Il.:: University of Illinois Press, 1994. [Details] |
| Byrne, Anne, Edmondson, R, Fahy, K (1993) 'Rural Tourism and Cultural Identity in the West of Ireland' In: O'Connor, B and Cronin, M (eds). Tourism in Ireland - A Critical Analysis. Cork Ireland: Cork University Press. [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson, Anne Byrne, and Kathleen Fahy (1993) 'Women, Tourism and Cultural Identity in the West of Ireland' In: Barbara O'Connor and Michael Cronin (eds). Tourism in Ireland: A Critical Analysis. Cork: Cork University Press. [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (1992) 'Moral Debate and Social Change' In: Abortion, Law and Conscience. Dublin: Dominican Publications. [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (1981) 'Rhetorical Explanation in ‘Language for Special Purposes’' In: Sprache: Lehren - Lernen. Darmstadt / Tuebingen: Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Linguistik. [Details] |
| Anthony Heath and Ricca Edmondson (1981) 'Oxbridge Sociology: the Development of Centres of Excellence?' In: Practice and Progress: British Sociology 1950-1980. London: Allen and Unwin. [Details] |
Edited Books
| Ricca Edmondson and Karlheinz Hülser (Ed.). (2012) Politics of Practical Reasoning: Integrating Action, Discourse and Argument. Lexington: Rowman and Littlefield: Lexington Books. [Details] |
| aluing Older People: Towards a Humanistic Gerontology (Ed.). (2009) Ricca Edmondson and Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz. Bristol: Policy Press. [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson and Henrike Rau (Ed.). (2008) Environmental Argument and Cultural Difference: Locations, Fractures and Deliberations. Oxford: Peter Lang Publications. [Details] |
| Anne Byrne, Ricca Edmondson, Tony Varley (Ed.). (2001) Arensberg’s and Kimball’s Family and Community in Ireland. Ennis: CLASP Press. [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson and Cecily Kelleher (Ed.). (2000) Health Promotion: New Discipline or Multidiscipline?. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (Ed.). (1997) he Political Context of Collective Action: Argumentation, Power and Democracy. London: Routledge. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Edmondson, R (2012) 'Intergenerational Relations in the West of Ireland and Sociocultural Approaches to Wisdom'. Journal Of Family Issues, 33 :76-98. [DOI] [Details] |
| Edmondson, R,Pearce, J,Woerner, MH (2009) 'Wisdom in clinical reasoning and medical practice'. Theoretical Medicine And Bioethics, 30 :231-247. [DOI] [Details] |
| Markus Woerner and Ricca Edmondson (2009) 'Towards a Taxonomy of Types of Wisdom'. Yearbook Of The Irish Philosophical Society, :148-163. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R. (2008) 'Wisdom and Older People in Ireland'. Senior People Educational Studies, Wuhan China, 2 (36):73-76. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R. (2007) 'Življenjski potek in modrost kot vodilna idea; The Life Course and Wisdom as a Guiding Idea'. Towards Good Quality of Life in Older Age, 10 (2):28-42. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R., Pearce, J. (2007) 'The Practice of Health Care: Wisdom as a Model'. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 10 (3):233-244. [Details] |
| Edmondson, R (2005) 'Wisdom in later life: ethnographic approaches'. Ageing & Society, 25 :339-356. [DOI] [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (2003) 'Social Capital: A Strategy for Advancing Health?'. Journal Of Social Science And Medicine, 57 (9):1723-1733. [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (2000) 'Rural Temporal Practices: Future Time in Connemara'. Time And Society, 9 (2/3):269-288. [Details] |
Other Journals
| Ricca Edmondson (1993) 'Retorica y objetividad: los reportes en las ciencias sociales' Revista Columbiana de Sociologia :33-46. [Details] |
| Markus Woerner and Ricca Edmondson (1981) 'Theology and Rhetoric' New Blackfriars :379-387. [Details] |
Conference Publications
| Aartsen, M., Béland, D., Edmondson, R., Ginn, J., Komp, K., Nilsson, M., Perek- Bialas, J., Sorensen, P., & Weicht, B. (2012) Ageing in the light of crises: Economic crisis, demographic change, and the search for meaning Ageing in the Light of Crises http://www.soc.umu.se/english/research/ publications/welfare-studies-working-papers/, [Details] |
| Edmondson, R., Woerner, M. (2007) Later-Life Learning and Wisdom Proceedings of 'A Legacy of Learning': Sharing Global Experiences of Learning in Later Life, University of Strathclyde [Details] |
| Edmondson, R. (2005) The Language of Global Civil Society and a Transcultural Idea of Wisdom Proceedings of the Conference A World For All, Edinburgh; eds Cecilia Clegg and William Storrar [Details] |
Article
| Edmondson, R., Künemund, H., and Komp, K. (2012) The Research Network on Ageing. Article [Details] |
| Edmondson, Ricca, Komp, Kathrin, & Künemund, Harald (2010) Positive ageing. Article [Details] |
Other Item
| Ricca Edmondson (2010) Wisdom and Ageing from a Humanistic Pespective. Other Item [Details] |
Presentation
| Liselotte Maas (1981) English text of the Handbuch der deutschen Exilpresse 1933-1945. Presentation [Details] |
Reviews
| Ricca Edmondson (2011) Review of Miza Izuhara (ed., 2010) Ageing and Intergenerational Relations: Family Reciprocity from a Global Perspective. Reviews [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (2004) Review of Colin Coulter and Steven Coleman, The End of Irish History? Critical Reflections on the Celtic Tiger. Reviews [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (2004) Review of Russell Keat, Cultural Goods and the Limits of the Market. Reviews [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (2002) Review of John Brewer: Ethnography. Reviews [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (1998) Review of Patrick Hanafin: Last Rights: Death, Dying and the Law in Ireland. Reviews [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (1997) Review of Honor Fagan, Culture, Politics, and Irish School Dropouts. Reviews [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (1996) Review of Tony Fahey and Peter Murray, Health and Autonomy among the Over- 65s in Ireland. Reviews [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (1992) Review of Pat O’Connor, Friendships Between Women. Reviews [Details] |
| Ricca Edmondson (1991) Review of Chris Curtin and Thomas Wilson, Ireland from Below, and M. Tomlinson et al., Whose Law and Order?. Reviews [Details] |
Translation
| Sebastian Lalla (2012) Philosophia Sine Qua Non: Transcendental-Political Reflections using the Work of John Rawls. Translation [Details] |
| Walter Wortberg (2008) Environmental Medicine and Health in Industrialised Nations: Cases from Germany. Translation [Details] |
| Gundel Schümer (1991) The Heyday of Reform: Literature on the Sociology of Education in Germany. Translation [Details] |
| Klaus Held (1990) Things and the World - Interpreting the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Translation [Details] |
| Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggeman (1986) This Side of Nameless Terror (The Modernisation Theory of Hans Blumenberg). Translation [Details] |
| Christel Hopf (1983) Norms and Interpretations - Some Methodological and Theoretical Problems in the Collection and Analysis of Subjective Accounts in Qualitative Research. Translation [Details] |
| Klaus Jacobi (1983) Statements about Events: Modal and Tense Analysis in Medieval Logic. Translation [Details] |
| Ernest Hess-Lüttich (1982) Medial Transformation and Semiotic Structure: Problems of Notation in Corpus Analysis. Translation [Details] |
Conference Contributions
| Ricca Edmondson (2012) Keynote Address: Older Age, the Future and Crises of Meaning. [Keynote Address], Ageing in the Light of Crises: Economic Crisis, Demographic Change, and the Search for Meaning, University of Umeå , 19-OCT-12 - 21-JAN-13. |
| Ricca Edmondson (2012) 'A Reading of Aristotelian Wisdom and its Compatibility with Contemporary Organisational Behaviour’. [Oral Presentation], 8th Philosophy of Management International Conference, Oxford , 20-JUL-12 - 23-JUL-12. |
| Ricca Edmondson (2012) Wisdom and Access to Other Worlds. [Oral Presentation], nternational Conference on Wise Practices, Imagination and the Tolerance of Diversity, Galway , 20-JUN-12 - 23-JUN-12. |
| Ricca Edmondson (2011) ‘Methodological Approaches to Understanding “Wisdom” in Older Age’. [Oral Presentation], British Society of Gerontology, Plymouth , 14-JUL-11 - 17-JUL-11. |
| Ricca Edmondson (2011) ‘Wisdom and Social Uncertainty: Learning from Older People’. [Oral Presentation], European Sociological Association, Geneva , 07-SEP-11 - 11-SEP-11. |
| Ricca Edmondson (2011) Commentary on the work of Bill Bytheway. [Oral Presentation], Meet the Authors Session, European Sociological Association, Geneva , 07-SEP-11 - 11-SEP-11. |
| Ricca Edmondson (2011) ‘Geographies of Ageing and Wisdom’. [Oral Presentation], merican Association of Geographers, Seattle, USA , 14-APR-11 - 17-APR-11. |
| Ricca Edmondson (2011) ‘Gerontology as “Post-Disciplinary” Enterprise: Debates and Examples’. [Oral Presentation], ENAS Research Network on Ageing in Europe, Maastricht , 13-OCT-11 - 18-OCT-11. |
| Ricca Edmondson and Eileen Fairhurst (2011) Calendars, Intergenerationality and Wisdom in Ageing’. [Oral Presentation], ENAS Research Network on Ageing in Europe, Maastricht , 13-OCT-11 - 19-JAN-13. |
| Carmel Gallagher and Ricca Edmondson (2011) ‘“Wise” Practices in Social Care Institutions for Older People’. [Oral Presentation], CARDI conference, Dublin , 22-NOV-11 - 23-NOV-11. |
| Ricca Edmondson (2011) Linking Fromm and Benhabib: Interactive Universalism and Wisdom’. [Oral Presentation], European Sociological Association, Geneva , 07-SEP-11 - 11-SEP-11. |
Teaching Interests
| Ricca Edmondson's undergraduate teaching includes courses on Recent appointments to teach abroad include: |