Staff

Kathy Powell

Lecturer

PhD Social Anthroplogy (University of London)
BSc Hons Anthropology (University College London)

Office: 321 Aras Moyola
Telephone: 353 (0)91 512162
Email: kathy.powellnuigalway.ie

Member of the Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster

Teaching

SP226 Comparative Themes in Society, Politics and Culture
SP496 Anthropology of Migration and Diasporas
SP469 Political Anthropology

Research Interests

Socio-economic change, political culture and political practices in rural Mexico. I focus on hegemonic processes, political rationality and relations of power, and particularly on interrelations between the practices and discourses of clientelist politics and corruption, and between forms of violence, social and political inequalities and identity. Interests also include political ideology, identity and ’informality’ in Cuba.

Selected Publications

“Neoliberalism: uneven geographies of class power. An essay on David Harvey’s A Brief History of Neoliberalism”, in Journal of Power, Vol.2 (2), 2009

“Flexible Political Rationality: global markets, graduated sovereignty and ethical regimes in Aihwa Ong’s Neoliberalism as Exception”, in Dialectic Anthropology, Vol. 31, 2008, Springer.

“What’s changed (since 1975?)”, in Dialectical Anthropology, Vol. 31, 2008, Springer.

“Neoliberalism, the Special Period and Solidarity in Cuba”, in Critique of Anthropology Vol. 28 (2), June 2008 Sage Publications.

“San Sebastián: the social and political effects of sugar mill closure in Mexico” in New Solutions, Vol.17, No.1., 2007 Baywood Publishing

“Mexican campesinos, the neoliberal state and contesting interpretations of social justice”, in Irish Journal of Anthropology Vol. VII, No. 1, 2004

Supervision of Research

M.Litt thesis: ’Invisible Immigrants: Boston’s undocumented Irish’ by Colm McNamee, awarded in 2009.

PhD (with Dr Sinisa Malesevic) “Breaking the Mirror: Reflections of the American Neoliberal Subject and the Islamic ’Other’” by Stacey Furlong ( Lady Gregory Fellowship), awarded in 2009.

Currently supervising a PhD “Irish railroad workers: Cuba 1835 – 1844” by Margaret Brehony (Irish Studies, Government of Ireland Research Scholarship).

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