Staff

Tony Varley

Senior Lecturer

PhD (Southern Illinois)
MA (Southern Illinois)
BA (UCG)

Office: 309 Aras Moyola
Telephone: 00 353 91 492580
Email: tony.varleynuigalway.ie

Member of the Governance and Sustainable Development Research Cluster and the Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster

Teaching

Classical Social Thought
Sociology of Work
Politics of Development
Culture and Colonialism
Political Sociology
Sociology of Development
Rural Development
Agrarian Politics

Research Interests

Populism and local development in Ireland, the smallholder question in Ireland, the community movement, Muintir na Tire. 

Selected Publications

T. Varley, 2010. ’On the Road to Extinction: Agrarian Parties in Twentieth-Century Ireland’, Irish Political Studies, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 581-601.

J. McDonagh, T. Varley and S. Shortall (eds) A living countryside: the politics of sustainable development in rural Ireland (Ashgate, 2009).

Tony Varley and Chris Curtin (2006) 'The Politics of Empowerment: Power, Populism and Partnership in Rural ireland', The Economic and Social Review 37(3): 423-446.

Varley, T. (2003) 'A Region of Sturdy Smallholders? Western Nationalists and Agrarian Politics during the First World War', Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 55, pp. 127-50.

Varley, T. (2003) 'Populism, the Europeanised State and Collective Action in Rural Ireland', in M. Blanc (ed) Innovations, Institutions and Rural Change. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, pp. 127-168.

Varley, T. and O Cearbhaill, D. (2002) 'Towards a Theory of State-Community Partnerships: Interpreting the Irish Muintir na Tíre Experience', Journal of the Community Development Society, 33(1): 53-70.

Chris Curtin and Tony Varley (2002) 'Changing patterns of leadership and local power in rural Ireland'. In K. Halfacree et al. (eds.) Leadership and Local Power in European Rural Development (Aldershot: Ashgate), pp. 12-32.

Chris Curtin and Tony Varley (2002) 'Community empowerment via partnership? The "local community" in rural Ireland’s area-based development regime'. In G. Taylor (ed.) Issues in Irish Public Policy. Dublin, Irish Academic Press, pp.127-150.

Chris Curtin and Tony Varley (2002) 'Communitarian populism and the politics of rearguard resistance in rural Ireland'. Community Development Journal 37(1): 20-32.

Byrne, A., Edmondson, R. and Varley, T. (2001) 'Introduction to the Third Edition', in C.M. Arensberg and S.T. Kimball, Family and Community in Ireland. Ennis: CLASP Press, pp. 1-101.

Chris Curtin and Anthony Varley (1999) 'Defending rural interests against nationalists in 20th century Ireland: A tale of three movements'. In J. Davis (ed.) Rural Change in Ireland (Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies), pp.58-83.

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