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Power, Conflict and Ideologies
Publications
Kenny, K., Willmott, H. & Whittle, A. (forthcoming, 2010) Studying Identity. Sage: London.
This short textbook presents an overview of key issues and topics around the concept of identity, as it relates to management and contemporary workplaces. The book is distinctive for its illustration of in-depth theoretical issues with easily accessible examples from popular culture. It also showcases core readings and empirical studies in the field of identity in business and management. It engages with the latest topics and concepts in identity studies, including virtual identity, “post-post modern” approaches, and identity and social movements.
Bell, E. and Kenny, K. (forthcoming, 2010) ’Embodying Organizations’. In Jeanes, E., Knights, D. and Yancey Martin, P. (Eds), Handbook of Gender, Work and Organization. Blackwell/ Wiley: London.
In this chapter, we use our analysis of self help books, written between 1970 and 2007, to illustrate some key ideas from the study of gender, embodiment and organization. We focus on self-help books aimed at women managers, and explore how these put forward particular messages about gender and’how to “do” one’s body.
Kenny, K. (forthcoming 2010) Beyond ourselves: Passion and the Dark Side of Identification in an Ethical Organization Human Relations.
How are organizational discourses enacted by people at work? In this paper, instead of treating subjects as somewhat distinct from such discourses, I argue that the two are inescapably intertwined. The concept of ’ek-stasis’ helps us to understand this (Butler, 2004). Ek-stasis invokes an idea of the ’self’ which, through processes of identification, is always located outside of itself, embedded in a wider sociality. I explore this dynamic through an in-depth study of the powerful discourse of ’ethical living’, and its enactment in one contemporary development sector organization.
Kenny, K. & Euchler, G. (forthcoming, 2010) ’Some Good Clean Fun: Humour in an Advertising Agency’. Gender, Work and Organization.
This paper 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 unusually large amount of time sending humorous emails. We unpack the role of humour in subverting various forms of control, including gender norms and managerial authority.
S. Malesevic (2010)
The Sociology of War and Violence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). (Croatian translation forthcoming in 2010 with Jesenski & Turk, Zagreb)
This book focuses on the historical and contemporary impact of coercion and warfare on the transformation of social life and vice versa. Although collective violence and war have shaped much of recorded human history the mainstream sociology remains ignorant of war. In contrast this book brings the study of organized violence to the fore by providing a wide ranging sociological analysis that aims to link the classical and contemporary theoretical contributions with the specific historical and geographical contexts. It covers such diverse topics as violence before modernity, warfare in modern age, nationalism and war, war propaganda, battlefield solidarity, war and social stratification, gender and organized violence and the new wars debate.
S. Malesevic (2010) Ethnicity in Time and Space: A Conceptual Analysis. Critical Sociology (in press).
This paper critically engages with the two dominant paradigms in the study of ethnicity: the temporal and the spatial. The author identifies the principal epistemological weaknesses of both perspectives and articulates an alternative understanding that conceptualises ethnicity as a social situation.
S. Malesevic (2010) How Pacifist were the Founding Fathers?: War and Violence in Classical Sociology. European Journal of Social Theory. 13(4) (in press)
The paper explores the ways war and organised violence were analysed in the works of classical sociologists. It argues that contrary to the widely held view many classics were preoccupied with these topics and have devised complex concepts and models to study war and violence. In fact most of the classical social thought was sympathetic to the ’militarist’ understanding of social life.
O’Dochartaigh, N. (2010) In press. ’Bloody Sunday: Error or Design?’ Contemporary British History.
O’Dochartaigh, N. (2010) In press. ’Northern Ireland’. In The Encyclopedia of Political Science,Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
O’Dochartaigh, N. (2010) In press. ’Nation and Neighbourhood: Nationalist Mobilisation and Local Solidarities in the North of Ireland’. In Adrian Guelke (ed.) The Challenges of Ethno-Nationalism. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
G Taylor, 'The Reconfiguration of Risk in the British State', Public Policy and Administration 24 (4).
G Taylor, Risk Science and Food: The Politics of Little Red Sweets', Administration (forthcoming).
E Ward, “Lap-Dancing and Red Light Milieu: Conceptualising the Context for Sex-trafficking into Ireland” (with Gillian Wylie) in Wylie, G., and Mac Redmond, P., (eds.), Human Trafficking in Europe: Character, Causes, Consequences (Palgrave McMillan, 2010).
This chapter explores the causality argument made in relation to a sex-trade and sex trafficking by exploring the context of lapdancing in Ireland. It argues that while a red light milieu (demand) acts as a pull (supply), the location of women in lap dancing is more complex that simplistic causality relationships allow and it concludes by arguing for evidence-driven policy change and innovation rather than policy-driven research.
Ricca Edmondson and Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz, eds,
Valuing Older People: A Humanist Approach to Ageing (Bristol, Policy Press, 2009).
How can we understand older people as human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and purposes matter in themselves as well as responding to those of others? Using a life-course approach, this book claims that the complexity and potential creativity of later life demands a humanistic vision of older people and ageing, one which denies that older people are ’other’ than ourselves and emphasises instead the ’ties of recognition and concern’ that bind human beings together. At the same time, it acknowledges the specificities of different experiences of older age and the diversities of meanings connected with them. It presents a range of contexts and methodologies through which such meanings can be understood. The book interprets ageing as a process of creating meaning, carried out by older people but significant for those around them, and influenced by the norms and values of their societies as well as their political and economic structures. It then considers the impact of social norms on older people’s capacities to age in creative ways. What obstacles are their to older people’s construction of meaningful lives? What is going on when they feel they are ageing well? In former times, the idea of a meaningful later life was associated with the idea of wisdom; some of its contemporary dimensions are explored here. Contributors include internationally renowned writers such Peter Coleman, Michele Dillon and Haim Hazan. Chapters explore norms and values associated with ageing from the US to the UK, Germany, Ireland, Finland, Israel and Singapore.
Ricca Edmondson, ’Wisdom: A Humanist Approach to Valuing Older People’, pp.201-216 in Ricca Edmondson and Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz, eds, Valuing Older People: A Humanist Approach to Ageing (Bristol, Policy Press, 2009).
Ricca Edmondson, Jane Pearce and Markus Woerner (2009), ’When Wisdom is Called for in Clinical Reasoning’, in William Stempsey, ed., Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 30: 231-247
Exploring informal components of clinical reasoning, we argue that they need to be understood via the analysis of professional wisdom. Wise decisions are needed where action or insight is vital, but neither everyday nor expert knowledge provides solutions. Wisdom combines experiential, intellectual, ethical, emotional and practical capacities; we contend that it is also more strongly social than is usually appreciated. But many accounts of reasoning specifically rule out such features as irrational. Seeking to illuminate how wisdom operates, we build on Aristotle’s work on informal reasoning. His account of rhetorical communication shows how non-formal components can play active parts in reasoning, retaining or even enhancing its reasonableness. We extend this account, applying it to forms of healthcare-related reasoning which are characterised by the need for wise decision-making. We then go on to explore some of what clinical wise reasoning may mean, concluding with a case taken from psychotherapeutic practice.
Markus Woerner and Ricca Edmondson (2009), ’Towards a Taxonomy of Types of Wisdom’, Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society: 148-163.
Wisdom is no longer a central topic of Philosophy, ’the love of wisdom’. However, current empirical research in psychology highlights its vital importance for the human life-course. An attempt to unearth the history of wisdom in Western philosophical, theological and rhetorical traditions shows that it is an intrinsically dramatic concept, in need of a taxonomy of diverse accounts. Such a taxonomy would help to formulate criteria for a theoretical framework in terms of which a working definition of wisdom could be philosophically justified, a project fruitful for empirical research and useful for public policy.
Paul Michael Garrett (2009)
'Transforming' Children’s Services? Social Work, Neoliberalism and the 'Modern' World (Open University/McGraw Hill).
This book provides an accessible overview of the 'transformation' of Children's Services in England. In doing this, it draws on social theory, critical social policy and takes account of developments in other countries. Paul Michael Garrett argues that the many changes which have taken place within, and beyond, Children's Services are related to the politics of Neoliberalism which, it is maintained, lie at the core of the Change for Children programme.
Paul Michael Garrett (2009) ’Marx and “Modernization”: Reading Capital as social critique and inspiration for social work resistance to neoliberalization’, Journal of Social Work, 9 (2): 199-221.
Mark Haugaard and Stewart Clegg (eds) (2009)
The Sage Handbook of Power (London: Sage). (Includes substantive co-authored introduction (pp. 1-25) and conclusion (pp. 400-66).)
The first touchstone for any student or researcher wishing to initiate them selves in the ’state of the art’ in this subject. Internationally acclaimed as at the top of their field, Stewart Clegg and Mark Haugaard have joined forces to select a collection of papers written by scholars with global reputations for excellence. These papers bridge different conceptual and theoretical positions and draw on many disciplines, including politics, sociology, and cultural studies.
Mark Haugaard (2009) ’Power and Hegemony’ in The Sage Handbook of Power (ed) Stewart Clegg and Mark Haugaard (London: Sage), pp. 239-255.
M Haugaard (2009) Editorial, Journal of Power 2(1): 1-6.
Kenny, K (2009) 'Heeding the Stains: Lacan and Organizational Change', Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol 22. No. 2, pp 214-228
The purpose of this paper is to add to current discussions on the use of Lacanian psychoanalysis in organizational change. Specifically, I argue that critiques of Lacan’s work must be acknowledged and incorporated into these discussions. I outline critiques of Lacan’s concepts of phallus and incest taboo, and show how these concepts can be exclusionary. To date, there remains a silence surrounding these critiques within organization studies.
Kenny, K. (2009) ’The performative surprise: parody, documentary and critique.’ Culture and Organization, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp 221-235
Can parody help us to “re-imagine” the organizations and institutions we live with (Du Gay 2007, 13)? Or, like many forms of critique, does parody risk being incorporated: becoming part of the power it aims to make fun of? In this paper, drawing on Judith Butler’s work, I discuss the value of parody for helping us to re-think and re-make particular institutions and organizations, focusing on the Yes Men’s parodies of the World Trade Organization.
S. Malesevic (2009).
Sociologija Ethniciteta, (Belgrade: Fabrika Knjiga), a Serbian translation of
The Sociology of Ethnicity (London: Sage, 2004).
In this thoughtful and accessible text, Malesevic assesses the explanatory strength of a range of sociological theories in understanding ethnicity and ethnic conflict. While acknowledging that there is no master key or blue-print to deal with each and every case of interethnic group relations, this book develops the best strategy to bridge epistemological and policy requirements for interethnic group relations.
S. Malesevic (2009) Collective Violence and Power. In S. Clegg and M. Haugaard (eds.) Sage Handbook of Power. London: Sage. pp. 274-290.
This paper explores the contentious social relationships between coercion, power and ideology. The central focus is on this paradoxical state of high modernity which is normatively built on the principles that glorify reason and despise violence wile at the same time witnessing more bloodshed than any previous historical era.
P Morriss, ’Power and Liberalism’ in S. Clegg and M. Haugaard, eds, The Sage Handbook of Power (London: Sage, 2009)
N O’Dochartaigh (2009) ’Conflict, Territory and online Boundaries: Drawing wider Lessons from a Belfast Case Study’. In Juergen Barkhoff and Helmut Eberhart eds. Networks across borders and frontiers. Graz.
N O’Dochartaigh (2009) ’Reframing Online: Ulster Loyalists Imagine an American Audience’. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 16 (1), 102-127.
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 analyzes an initiative by Ulster loyalists in Northern Ireland to mobilize Americans of Ulster Protestant descent in support of their cause, while simultaneously attempting to undermine the American support base of their Irish nationalist opponents. By contrast with Irish nationalists, Ulster loyalists have never had significant support networks in the United States. This attempt to mobilize a distant diaspora has met with little success. This article argues that loyalist understandings of their imagined audience in the United States are built on a misleading caricature of Irish-American support networks for Irish republicans. These misunderstandings direct loyalists towards a strategy that places undue weight on the role of homeland propaganda in converting shared ancestry into political support for ethnic compatriots in the “homeland” to the neglect of more fundamental factors in the mobilization of transnational support networks. The article argues that new technologies are of minimal significance for the mobilization of transnational support networks on the basis of shared ancestry in the absence of other fundamental conditions for mobilization. However, the new technologies allow movements to learn more about distant and little-understood support pools. The reflexive character of online interaction is illustrated by the way in which at least some loyalists have begun to explore other bases for transnational co-operation.
N O’Dochartaigh (2009) ’The Contact: understanding a communication channel between the British government and the IRA’. In Track Two to Peace? Public Diplomacy, Cultural Interventions & the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. Los Angeles: USC Center for Public Diplomacy, 1-15.
K Powell (2009) “Neoliberalism: uneven geographies of class power. An essay on David Harvey’s A Brief History of Neoliberalism”, Journal of Power 2(2).
Ryan, K. (2009) ’Power and Exclusion’, in the Sage Handbook of Power, edited by Stewart Clegg and Mark Haugaard, (London: Sage).
G Taylor and Martin Power (2009) Risk Science and Blood: The Politics of the Haemophilia Crisis in Ireland (E-book) Centre for Public Policy, SSRC NUI Galway.
John McDonagh, Tony Varley and Sally Shortall (eds) (2009)
A Living Countryside: The Politics of Sustainable Development in Rural Ireland (Ashgate).
By examining a range of experiences from both the north and south of Ireland, this book asks what the ideal of sustainable development might mean to specific rural groups and how sustainable development goals have been pursued across the policy spectrum.
E Ward (2009) “Prostitution and the Irish State: From prohibitionism to a globalised sex trade”, Irish Political Studies, Winter.
This article plots and analyses the development of policy towards prostitution from the foundation of the Irish state up to the contemporary period using three regime-types: prohibitionism, abolitionism and regulationism. It argues that state policy has been inconsistent over time and that recent (globalised) practices in the sex trade may have put prostitution largely beyond the reach of state policy.
E Ward (2009) "Compassion in Buddhist Peace Work: conceptualising peace in a different key”, Inter-Disciplinary Net (E-Journal) Proceedings of 6th Global Conference War Virtual War and Human Security, Bob Brecher (ed.), Inter-disciplinary Press, Oxford.
This article argues that using Buddhist conceptualisations as resources suggests a reconceptualisation of peace, based on an exploration of how compassion is conceived by Buddhist peace activists in Cambodia, locating compassion within a wider Buddhist ontology and social theory. The paper draws on fieldwork carried out in Cambodia in 2008.
Ricca Edmondson (2008), ’Wisdom and Older People in Ireland’, Senior People Education Studies (Wuhan, China) 2(36): 73-76.
Ricca Edmondson and Henrike Rau (eds) (2008)
Environmental Argument and Cultural Difference: Locations, Fractures and Deliberations
(Oxford, Peter Lang Publications).
Environmental argument is ’about’ far more than meets the eye. How people (mis-)understand each other during environmental debates is affected by conflicts between values and ways of life which may not be directly connected with the environment at all. This book offers sociological evidence from three contrasting societies – Ireland, Germany and China – to explore how diversity of cultural context affects deliberation about the physical world. What can we discover by examining environmental debates through the lens of interculturality? When people disagree about flood management, building motorways or extracting gas, what difference does it make if they have diverse experiences of neighbourly relations, how to use time or how to imagine a good life? What is going on at intersections between cultures to influence the trajectories of environmental debates? The book disinters taken-for-granted practices, feelings and social relationships which affect environmental arrangements, in scientific and artistic debates as well as in politics and policy-making.
Ricca Edmondson (2008) ’Intercultural Rhetoric, Environmental Reasoning and Wise Argument’ in Ricca Edmondson and Henrike Rau (eds), Environmental Argument and Cultural Difference: Locations, Fractures and Deliberations (Oxford, Peter Lang), pp.337-364.
Paul Michael Garrett (2008) ’Thinking with the Sardinian: Antonio Gramsci and Social Work’, European Journal of Social Work, 11 (3): 237-250.
Paul Michael Garrett (2008) ’The hidden history of the PFIs: The repatriation of unmarried mothers and their children from England to Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s’ in A. O’ Day and N. C. Fleming (eds.) Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations since 1800: Critical Essays, Vol. 3, Aldershot, Ashgate.
M Haugaard (2008) ’Power and Habitus’, Journal of Power 1(2): 189-206.
M Haugaard (2008) “Power and Legitimacy” in Massimo Mazzotti (ed) Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes (Aldershot: Ashgate).
M Haugaard and Z Bauman (2008) ’Liquid Modernity and Power: A Dialogue with Zygmunt Bauman’, Journal of Power 1(2): 111-130.
Mark Haugaard and Kevin Ryan (2008) ’Power, Social and Political Theories of’, in Lester Kurtz (ed), Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict (San Diego: Academic Press).
Mark Haugaard (2008) Editorial, Journal of Power 1(3): 231-237.
Mark Haugaard and Sinisa Malesevic (2008) ’The Ubiquity of Power’ (editorial) Journal of Power 1(1): 1-3
Mark Haugaard and Sinisa Malesevic (2008) ’Power and Culture’ (editorial) Journal of Power 1(2): 109-110.
Kenny, K. (2008) ’Aesthetics and emotion in an organisational ethnography’, Int. J. Work , Organisation and Emotion, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp.374–388.
In this paper, I argue that an aesthetic approach can help us to better understand workplace ethnography. Ethnography is sensory by nature; it can incorporate a feeling of rightness and beauty in the experience of ’being-with’ the organisation being studied. The process is inherently aesthetic. I explore this argument with an in-depth account of a researcher’s experiences at a non-profit organisation.
Kenny, K. (2008) ’Arrive Bearing Gifts’: Postcolonial Insights for Development Management. In S. Dar and B. Cooke (Eds), The New Development Management: Critiquing the Dual Modernization. Zed Books: London.
Organizations working in the development sector play an important role in contemporary processes of globalization. Development organizations are seen to be at the forefront of these interactions between the First and the Third Worlds. This chapter reports on a nine-month participant observation study within one such donor-funded Non-Government Organization (NGO) and discusses postcolonial discourses at work in this setting.
S. Malesevic (2008) The Sociology of New Wars?: Assessing the Causes and Objectives of Contemporary Violent Conflicts. International Political Sociology 2(2): 97-112.
This paper provides a critical analysis of the sociological accounts of the new war paradigm. The author argues that despite the development of elaborate models, the sociology of contemporary warfare fails to convince. Rather than witnessing a dramatic shift in its causes and objectives of contemporary violent conflict, one encounters a significant transformation in the social and historical context in which these wars are waged.
P Morriss, ’The Statute Law on Abortion in the Republic of Ireland’ in J. Schweppe, ed., The Unborn Child, Article 40.3.3 and Abortion in Ireland: Twenty-Five Years of Protection? (Dublin: The Liffey Press, 2008)
It is well known that there has been no substantive legislation on abortion in the history of the Irish state: the statute law governing abortion remains the Offences Against the Person Act (1861), sections 58 and 59. In this article I suggest that the absence of such legislation is a puzzle. I do this by examining the abortion sections of the 1861 Act in some detail, particularly on two important questions: (a) at what stage in the foetus’s development is it covered by the Act? (b) does the Act outlaw abortion conducted by qualified doctors with the aim of preserving the life and/or health of the mother? My conclusion will be that, at least until 1983, the law in these areas was surprisingly weak – which makes the absence of legislation before then all the more puzzling.
P Morriss, ’Casuistry and Chess: Some Methodological Lessons for Ethics’ in B. Hale, ed., Philosophy Looks at Chess (Chicago: Open Court, 2008)
P Morriss, ’How to Think about Marriage: Autonomy, Equality, Recognition’, Irish Political Studies 22 (2007) pp. 545-64, also published in J. de Wispelaere, C. McBride and S. O’Neill (eds), Recognition, Equality and Democracy: Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Politics (London: Routledge, 2008)
N O’Dochartaigh (2008) 'Northern Ireland'. In Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth, eds, 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-77, pp.181-203. New York; London: Palgrave.
K Powell, “Flexible Political Rationality: global markets, graduated sovereignty and ethical regimes in Aihwa Ong’s Neoliberalism as Exception”, in Dialectic Anthropology 31 (2008).
K Powell, “What’s changed (since 1975?)”, in Dialectical Anthropology 31 (2008).
K Powell, “Neoliberalism, the Special Period and Solidarity in Cuba”, in Critique of Anthropology 28(2) (200)8.
Ryan, K. (2008) On power, habitus, and (in)civility: Foucault meets Elias meets Bauman in the playground, Journal of Power 1(3): 251-274.
Drawing on the work of Foucault, Elias, and Bauman, this article examines how the playground has articulated specific configurations of power/knowledge. Originally designed to cultivate virtue and counteract vice, the playgrounds of the past were to complete the discipline of the schoolroom, assisting the trained master to ’direct’ the child’s thoughts, feelings, and actions. From its tentative beginnings in the work of Rousseau, the strategy of supervised play was intended to conceal its purpose from the child, with power exercised through discreet forms of surveillance and constraint that would, it was hoped, gradually be embodied and re-enacted as self-restraint. Contemporary playgrounds – and here the article focuses on Ireland – no longer claim to be directing the conduct of children. Public playgrounds are framed by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, while commercial playgrounds provide a service to consumers of play. Yet, both unobtrusively act upon the child’s capacity for action, and there is a tension between these different modes of provision. Setting recent Eliasian scholarship on ’de-civilising’ processes against Bauman’s theory of ’liquid modernity’, and utilising Foucault’s notion of government as the ’conduct of conduct’, the article examines this tension and shows how it provides insight into the relationship between power, habitus, and (in)civility today.
Ryan, K. (2008) Environmental Conflict and Democracy: between Reason and Hegemony, in Environmental Arguing and Cultural Difference: Locations, Fractures and Deliberations, edited by Ricca Edmondson and Henrike Rau. Peter Lang.
Haugaard, M. and K. Ryan (2008) 'Power, Social and Political Theories of', in the Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace & Conflict, second edition, edited by Lester Kurtz. Academic Press.
At the most general level, most social and political theorists conceive of the study of power as both, the analysis of the capacity of individuals to make others do things that they would not otherwise do, and the study of the social relationships that sustain that capacity.
Ricca Edmondson (2007), ’Življenjski potek in modrost kot vodilna idea’ (’The Life Course and Wisdom as a Guiding Idea’); in Kakovostna Starost (Towards Good Quality of Life in Older Age), 10(2): 28-42.
Ricca Edmondson and Jane Pearce (2007) ’The Practice of Health Care: Wisdom as a Model’, in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 10(3): 233-244.
Ricca Edmondson (2007) ’Rhetorics of Social Science: Sociality in Writing and Inquiry’, in William Outhwaite and Stephen Turner, eds, The Handbook of Social Science Methodology (London, Sage), pp.479-498.
Paul Michael Garrett (2007) ’Learning from the “Trojan Horse”? The arrival of “Anti-Social Behaviour Orders” in Ireland’, European Journal of Social Work 10(4): 497-511.
Paul Michael Garrett (2007) ’Sinbin Solutions: The “pioneer” projects for “problem families” and the forgetfulness of social policy research, Critical Social Policy 27(2): 203-230.
Haugaard, Mark (2007) ’Power, Modernity and Liberal Democracy’ in M Haugaard and S Malesevic (eds), Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
S. Malesevic and M. Haugaard (eds). (2007).
Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ernest Gellner was a unique scholar whose work covered areas as diverse as social anthropology, analytical philosophy, the sociology of the Islamic world, nationalism, psychoanalysis, East European transformations and kinship structures. Despite this diversity, there is an exceptional degree of unity and coherence in Gellner’s work with his distinctly modernist, rationalist and liberal world-view evident in everything he wrote. His central problematic remains constant: understanding how the modern world came into being and to what extent it is unique relative to all other social forms. Ten years after his death, this book brings together leading social theorists to evaluate the significance of Gellner’s legacy and to re-examine his central concerns. It corrects many misunderstandings and critically engages with Gellner’s legacy to provide a cutting edge contribution to understanding our contemporary post-9/11, global, late modern, social condition.
S. Malesevic and G. Uzelac (2007) A Nation-state without the Nation?: The trajectories of nation-formation in Montenegro, Nations and Nationalism 13(4): 695-716.
N O’Dochartaigh (2007) ’Conflict, territory and new technologies: Online interaction at a Belfast interface’, Political Geography 26(4): 474-91.
This article examines the relationship between new information and communication technologies and territorial boundaries through an analysis of online interaction oriented around a sectarian interface in north Belfast. It is widely argued that new information and communication technologies are contributing to fundamental changes in the nature of territory and boundaries, with many arguing that they contribute to a deterritorialisation of social interaction. This article argues that new technologies neither transcend nor obliterate territorial boundaries but in certain senses reinforce and extend the role of physical boundaries as orienting locations for hostile interaction. Focusing on the interlinked territorial strategies of penetration and surveillance it argues that online interaction facilitates the extension and elaboration of territorial strategies oriented around physical lines of confrontation and the associated development of new material practices oriented around the physical boundary.
K Powell (2007) “San Sebastián: the social and political effects of sugar mill closure in Mexico” in New Solutions 17(1).
Ryan, K. (2007)
Social Exclusion and the Politics of Order
(Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press).
The politics of order has long divided those deemed fit to exercise freedom from others perceived to pose a threat to the safety and security of society, with paupers, vagabonds and unmarried mothers (among others) subjected to various controls in defence of social order, historical progress and national unity. In the closing decades of the 20th century this relation between inclusion and exclusion became the explicit focus of political thought and action, in part because the excluded organised to demand recognition, equality and rights, but also due to innovations resulting from structural strains and dislocation. The book traces out the historical roots of this process of transformation, which has assembled a new mode of governing that organises actors and agencies from the spheres of state, market and civil society into various forms of partnership. Taking an original and accessible approach, the book examines the fields of nomadism, disability, youth and lone parenting in detail, and it argues that the shift from an order built on exclusion to one based on the rule of inclusion recasts the modern projects of equality and emancipation, which have neither been accomplished nor abandoned. Instead they have been transformed, with the new arts of government anticipating disturbances while recruiting the socially excluded into the dual task of governing their self and managing order. Drawing on recent Foucauldian-inspired research and governmentality theory, the book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students with an interest in the changing nature of government, policy and political struggle.
Ryan, K. (2007) ’Truth, Reason and the Spectre of Contingency’, in S. Malesevic and M. Haugaard (eds), Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought, (Cambridge University Press).
Haugaard, M. and K. Ryan (2007) ’Power and Powerlessness’, in S. O’Sullivan (ed), Contemporary Ireland: A Sociological Map (Dublin: UCD Press).
E Ward (2007) The Nature and Extent of Trafficking of Women into Ireland for the Purposes of Sexual Exploitation 2000 – 2006: A report from findings (with Gillian Wylie), SSRS Research Papers and Reports, No. 39, SSRC, NUI Galway.
Mark Haugaard and Howard Lentner (eds) (2006) Hegemony and Power, New York: Lexington Books.
This book provides the first systematic examination of the relationship of hegemony and power. Nine essays delve into the diverse analytical aspects of the two concepts, and an introduction and conclusion by the editors, respectively, forge a synthesis of their theoretical coherence. Hegemony has long existed as a term in political science, international relations, and social theory, but its meaning varies across these fields. While each has developed its own "local" language games for treating the idea, they all conceptualize hegemony as a form of power. Building on the recent rigorous exposition of power, this book subjects hegemony to a clarifying debate. In doing so, it advances the power debate. Components of the literature assume a relationship between power and hegemony, but no previous work has performed a concentrated and consistent analytical examination of them until now.
Mark Haugaard (2006) “Nationalism and Liberalism” in Gerard Delanty and Krishan Kumar (eds), The Sage Handbook of Nations and Nationalism (London: Sage), pp. 345-357.
Mark Haugaard (2006) “Power” (457-462) “Authority” (25-27);” Domination” (147-148), in Austin Harrington et al. (eds), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory (London: Routledge)
S. Malesevic (2006)
Identity as Ideology: Understanding Ethnicity and Nationalism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).
Modern human beings are socialized to take the existence of ethnic and national identities as given and largely unproblematic. Very few individuals would question the apparent normality of this division into nations and ethnic groups however, the intensity of this widespread feeling hides the degree of its historical novelty. This book explores the ideological and institutional underpinnings, as well as the political implications of this powerful modern belief system. This is achieved through subtle theoretical and thorough empirical analysis, both of which draw critically on the leading approaches in the field.
S. Malesevic J. Breuilly, D Cesarani, B Neuberger, M Mann (2006) 'Debate on Michael Mann's The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing', Nations and Nationalism 12 (3) 389-411.
P Morriss (2006) ’Steven Lukes on the Concept of Power’, Political Studies Review 4: 124-135
Ryan. K. (2006) ’Hegemony and the Power to Act’ in Hegemony and Power: Consensus and Coercion in Contemporary Politics, edited by H. Lentner and M. Haugaard. New York: Lexington.
Varley, Tony, and Chris Curtin (2006) 'The Politics of Empowerment: Power, Populism and Partnership in Rural Ireland', The Economic and Social Review 37 (3): 423-446.
E Ward (2006) “Real or Illusory Progress? Electoral Quotas and Women’s Political Participation in Tanzania, Eritrea and Uganda” in Trócaire Development Review 2006, Trócaire: Dublin, pps 73-97.
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