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Stacey Scriver

Research Associate, Global Women’s Studies

PhD in Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway
BA (Hons), Political Science and Sociology; Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway

Office: Room 204, Global Women’s Studies Programme, 10 Upper Newcastle Road
Email: stacey.scrivernuigalway.ie

Profile

Stacey Furlong is a post-doctoral researcher in the Global Women’s Studies Programme. She completed her Ph.D. through the School of Political Science and Sociology in 2008 before joining the Rape Attrition Project at the School of Law, NUI Galway, as a researcher. In her current role with the Women’s Studies Programme she is engaging with the issues of gender, religion and culture through an exploration of the Irish response to the Muslim veil debate.

Research Interests

Current research includes the interaction between politics, ideology and gender. Other areas of interest include psychoanalysis, popular culture, political-sociology and globalisation.

Selected Publications

Stacey Scriver (2010) Ireland through the Veil: Gender, Autonomy and the Nation, Working Paper No. 4, Gender, Empowerment and Globalisation Research Cluster, School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Scriver, S. 2009. "Subjectivity, identity and 300 Spartans" in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Vol. 14, Issue 2, pp. 183-199.

Within a psychoanalytic framework, this paper examines the recent historical/fantasy film 300 to assess the demands of ideology on the subject, the political consequences of the form of subjectivity that is affirmed, and the potential of this film to rationalize attitudes that provide justification for present conflict such as the War on Terror.

Conor Hanly, with Deirdre Healy and Stacey Scriver, Rape and Justice in Ireland (Liffy Press, 2009).

Commissioned by the Rape Crisis Network Ireland, this ground-breaking book is the result of a four‐year independent research study into the process of prosecuting rape cases in Ireland. This book is an important advance in our understanding of the reasons why so many rape cases are lost from the system during their progress from incident to reporting, to final court hearing, resulting in very low conviction rates for rape in Ireland. The book also offers a unique insight into the Irish justice system, as the authors were granted unprecedented access to the files of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the courts and the direct experiences of survivors of rape. The key findings of this research expose the nature of the factors at play in navigating a rape case through the justice system. It shows how the quality of social and official support for survivors is vitally important in order to progress a case, and that survivors as well as officials tend to think and act in terms of ’real rape’ scenarios to the disadvantage of the majority of cases that do not fit those criteria. It also explores the factors that influence the DPP’s decision to prosecute and those put forward in successful and unsuccessful court cases. Rape and Justice in Ireland concludes with recommendations for comprehensive reform of the justice system to lead to more effective prosecution of rape cases, and concrete suggestions to help in the prevention of the crime. This is an important and pioneering book.

Scriver, S. 2009. Review: The Impossible Ethics of Slavoj Žižek in Journal of Power (forthcoming).

This is a review essay based on Slavoj Žižek’s In Defence of Lost Causes. The essay explores the philosopher, theorist, and psychoanalyst’s ’ethics’ of commitment as it is revealed within his recent book.

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