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''A woman's place...': community-based approaches to gender-based violence in Malawi'
(2017)
Gaynor, Niamh; Cronin, Mairtin
''A woman's place...': community-based approaches to gender-based violence in Malawi'
(2017)
Gaynor, Niamh; Cronin, Mairtin
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One in five women has experienced gender-based violence in Malawi and its incidence is reported to be increasing. The importance of cultural norms, practices, discourses and behaviours in both driving and addressing such violence is now well recognised. So too is the attendant need to involve men as well as women in community interventions to address this. In this context, this article draws on field research conducted in 2016 in two districts in Northern and Southern Malawi exploring the successes and challenges posed by communitybased approaches (CBAs) to tackling GBV. We find that CBAs have yielded a number of successes – notably a reported reduction in GBV as communications between couples have improved and economic stresses within households reduced. However, we also find that these same CBAs have raised a number of challenges. These centre around resource distribution; the impact on local power dynamics; and CBA’s ability to challenge and interrogate dominant norms, ideologies...
http://doras.dcu.ie/23927/
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'Lost in a concrete jungle': community perspectives on the criteria for the development of a sustainable community in Irish urban areas
(2019)
Barry, Emma
'Lost in a concrete jungle': community perspectives on the criteria for the development of a sustainable community in Irish urban areas
(2019)
Barry, Emma
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This study investigates the criteria necessary for the development of sustainable communities in Irish urban areas from the perspectives of local residents, key actors and planning policies. The understanding of a sustainable community that underpins this study engages with the complexities of sustainability and sustainable community development (SCD), in which there are often contested views. The literature suggests that differing, and at times conflicting, views of SCD, are held by international and national bodies. This research provides a working definition of sustainable community development and outlines the criteria which a community must reach in order to be deemed successfully sustainable. It is unique in identifying a 'true' definition of SCD based on bottom-up dialogue with community members in two case study areas, located in urban Ireland, using anonymous surveys. This qualitative bounded case study which investigates the ‘true’ definition of SCD in Irish urba...
http://doras.dcu.ie/23743/
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America: symptoms of decline
(1991)
Sheehan, Helena
America: symptoms of decline
(1991)
Sheehan, Helena
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This article was an attempt to get the pulse of the zeitgeist visiting the USA in 1991.
http://doras.dcu.ie/4690/
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ASBOs and Behaviour Orders: Institutionalised Intolerance of Youth?
(2006)
Hamilton, Claire; Seymour, Mairéad
ASBOs and Behaviour Orders: Institutionalised Intolerance of Youth?
(2006)
Hamilton, Claire; Seymour, Mairéad
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This paper argues that the introduction of Behaviour Orders in Ireland creates a legal mechanism which facilitates the imposition of the majority conception of order within the community on its more marginalised members such as children and young people, much as has happened with ASBOs in the UK. The paper begins by suggesting that order/disorder is defined and imposed in the community by the more powerful elements within it and that what constitutes order/disorder is necessarily variable according to the experiences and perceptions of community members. A close legal analysis of the new Irish legislation governing Behaviour Orders is presented, and parallels with the British legislation are highlighted, with a view to examining the ways in which the law institutionalises the majority conception of order.The social and legal aspects of the paper are drawn together in the argument that the ambiguity surrounding the definition and interpretation of anti-social behaviour renders Behavi...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5995/
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Breandán Ó hEithir’s Use of Music in Constructing and Re-constructing Community in Lead Us Into Temptation
(2020)
McCann, Chris
Breandán Ó hEithir’s Use of Music in Constructing and Re-constructing Community in Lead Us Into Temptation
(2020)
McCann, Chris
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Music is an effective device in Irish fiction for symbolising community and the expression of collective values. As Gerry Smyth observes, the presence of music in the Irish novel elucidates how the histories of each form are often “enmeshed with the wider question of national identity” (106). Such formal complications emerge in Breandán Ó hEithir’s novel Lig Sinn i gCathú, first published in Irish in 1976 and two years later in English as Lead Us Into Temptation.1 Through a multifaceted approach incorporat-ing musicological theory and comparative historical sources, this analysis interrogates the ways in which music expresses Irish sociopolitical identity in the novel.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/13356/
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Building a model of a knowledge community: a study of the social construction of information and communications technologies in rural economic development
(1999)
Ó Dubhchair, Kate
Building a model of a knowledge community: a study of the social construction of information and communications technologies in rural economic development
(1999)
Ó Dubhchair, Kate
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The objective of this thesis is to establish the case that information and communication technologies have to be understood as the backbone of a community knowledge infrastructure underpinning the learning community. Measurement of success is of central relevance to this work. The predominant model for measurement in the first phase of the current societal change has centred around quantitative outcomes. This thesis starts from the premise that this model is no longer adequate and that new measures must be identified. This stance is justified by looking at a theoretical level at the current societal change. There is recognition of the cross-sectoral nature of ICT as an enabling mechanism for development and for decision-making. This thesis focuses on a rural community. It is in rural areas that technology has been most forcefully presented as a ‘deterministic’ solution to disadvantage. In line with the concepts of reflexive modernity, the fieldwork undertaken works out from the ...
http://doras.dcu.ie/19215/
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Changing life in the towns of north Kildare
(2000)
Waddington, Shelagh B.
Changing life in the towns of north Kildare
(2000)
Waddington, Shelagh B.
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This paper examines the growth and changes in population characteristics and lifestyle in three towns in north Kildare which have come increasingly within the influence of the Dublin Metropolitan area. The data used are primarily obtained from three surveys carried out in the towns during recent years and contrasts are made with previous work in the area. It is suggested that community life still exists in these towns but that the effects of proximity to Dublin are having ever greater impact on that life.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/4376/
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Communities of 'Limited Liability'
(2008)
Corcoran, Mary
Communities of 'Limited Liability'
(2008)
Corcoran, Mary
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http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/3543/
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Community post-editing of machine-translated user-generated content
(2015)
Mitchell, Linda
Community post-editing of machine-translated user-generated content
(2015)
Mitchell, Linda
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With the constant growth of user-generated content (UGC) online, the demand for quick translations of large volumes of texts increases. This is often met with a combination of machine translation (MT) and post-editing (PE). Despite extensive research in post-editing with professional translators or translation students, there are few PE studies with lay post-editors, such as domain experts. This thesis explores lay post-editing as a feasible solution for UGC in a technology support forum, machine translated from English into German. This context of lay post-editing in an online community prompts for a redefinition of quality. We adopt a mixed-methods approach, investigating PE quality quantitatively with an error annotation, a domain specialist evaluation and an end-user evaluation. We further explore post-editing behaviour, i.e. specific edits performed, from a qualitative perspective. With the involvement of community members, the need for a PE competence model becomes even more p...
http://doras.dcu.ie/20463/
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Dual diagnosis: a community perspective
(2019)
Proudfoot, Denise; MacGabhann, Liam; Phelan, Daniel
Dual diagnosis: a community perspective
(2019)
Proudfoot, Denise; MacGabhann, Liam; Phelan, Daniel
http://doras.dcu.ie/23993/
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Epitomising the Modern Spanish Nation through Popular Music: Coplas from La Caramba to Concha Piquer, 1750–1990
(2007)
Carbayo Abengozar, Mercedes
Epitomising the Modern Spanish Nation through Popular Music: Coplas from La Caramba to Concha Piquer, 1750–1990
(2007)
Carbayo Abengozar, Mercedes
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Music is an important language of the emotions and can often arouse strong passions in its performance and representation, both from the individual's perspective of personal identity and for the individual's sense of identity and of belonging to a given community. Likewise, music can serve to whip up and reinforce nationalism and national chauvinism against the ‘other’ as well as serving as a badge of identity. In this article I explore a musical form, a song that has been defined as ‘Spanish’ and as the ‘national’ song: la copla. Copla is rooted in the past and first appeared as both a poetic and a theatrical form, but always accompanied by music. It was, however, during the eighteenth century, when nationalism made its appearance as a ‘concern’ in the Spanish political-cultural arena, when coplas would be used as a mark of Spanish identity. Copla is a women's song. Although it has been interpreted by men, some of them internationally renowned like Miguel de Molina,...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/6345/
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Exploring the emerging geographies of cyberspace
(2002)
Kitchin, Rob; Dodge, Martin
Exploring the emerging geographies of cyberspace
(2002)
Kitchin, Rob; Dodge, Martin
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http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/7291/
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Learning from Minority: Exploring Irish Protestant Experience
(2015)
Walsh, Tony
Learning from Minority: Exploring Irish Protestant Experience
(2015)
Walsh, Tony
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This paper, based on a narrative research inquiry, presents and explores a number of stories relating to the experience and identity of members of the small Irish Protestant minority. Drawing on these stories it uses Foucault‟s conceptualisation of power and discourse to consider community, social withdrawal, and two different but linked expressions of silence as acts of resistance. These were simultaneously utilised to preserve a culture and ethos diametrically opposed to the religious and political hegemony of the Irish Catholic state and to combat the threat of extinction. The article concludes that an exploration of Ireland‟s traditional religious minority not only raises awareness concerning a specific group‟s experience but extends an understanding of the issues with which minorities (in more general terms) may have to cope in order to survive.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/7835/
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Learning to Survive
(2007)
Fallon, Helen
Learning to Survive
(2007)
Fallon, Helen
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Helen Fallon writes about her first-hand experience of a community in Sierra Leone who are gradually becoming aware of the urgent need to protecr their threatened environment.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8216/
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Mining the personal to carve a space of one’s own: a grounded theory study of grassroots countering violent extremism practitioners
(2018)
Orla, Lehane
Mining the personal to carve a space of one’s own: a grounded theory study of grassroots countering violent extremism practitioners
(2018)
Orla, Lehane
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This research focuses on individuals working to counter violent extremism at grassroots level. It details the way in which these practitioners draw on their own personal experiences to carve a space for themselves within a domain of policy that has seen an ever increasing variety of actors seek to augment their positions. That it is possible to intervene and avert people from being influenced by violent extremist organisations to perpetrate acts of violence is the impetus behind this growing ‘countering violent extremism’ (CVE) industry. CVE policy, a major concern for governments around the world, marks a shift within counter-terrorism towards prevention. This move comes as a response to well publicised acts of “homegrown” violent extremism, such as the 7/7 bombings in London (2005) and the Madrid train bombings (2004). The idea is that individuals can be “radicalised” to commit such acts, whether by friends or family, other significant individuals in their lives, online materials...
http://doras.dcu.ie/22591/
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Partners in Participation: integrated approaches to widening access in higher education
(2003)
Fleming, Ted; Murphy, Mark
Partners in Participation: integrated approaches to widening access in higher education
(2003)
Fleming, Ted; Murphy, Mark
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Detailed in this article are two case studies carried out over the last two years in the UK and Ireland which embody the objectives of tackling social exclusion and widening access to education via a partnership and integrated approach. One was completed as part of a Scottish Executive-funded study on widening participation in HE, and the other was funded by Integra and carried out in Ireland. The aim of outlining the findings of these case studies is to shed some light on the usefulness of the partnership approach to widening access. Whilst such an approach sounds eminently reasonable on paper, particularly the focus on de-centralisation, integrated services and grassroots development, in classic policy research terms, does the rhetoric match up with the reality? Do partnership-based out-reach programmes reach the parts other less innovative initiatives cannot?
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/1046/
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Place Attachment and Community Sentiment in Marginalised Neighbourhoods: A european Case Study
(2002)
Corcoran, Mary
Place Attachment and Community Sentiment in Marginalised Neighbourhoods: A european Case Study
(2002)
Corcoran, Mary
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This paper explores the meaning of place attachment and its connection to location and locale in the context of the urban neighbourhood. The concept of place is conceptualised in terms of the setting in which social relations are constituted, the effects upon locales of social and economic processes and the creation of a sense of place, defined as the local ‘structure of feeling’ (Williams 1977). Drawing on data gathered from residents in marginalised neighbourhoods across six European cities, the paper explicates the meaning of place in the everyday life of the community. Place is frequently construed through a repository of shared memories and traditions. A sense of place rooted in the past is deployed as a resource to mobilise around the challenges of the present. Feelings of place attachment resonate as a significant marker of identity and community even as sense of place is challenged by the developments in modern city places.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/1216/
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Placing cyberspace : why geography still matters.
(2001)
Kitchin, Rob; Dodge, Martin
Placing cyberspace : why geography still matters.
(2001)
Kitchin, Rob; Dodge, Martin
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Recent academic and media rhetoric has described cyberspace as a transformative technology that is helping to create a world where geography ceases to matter. Moreover, cyberspace itself is conceptualised as being spaceless and placeless. In this paper we critically examine and challenge this rhetoric, arguing that geography continues to matter, both off- and online. We illustrate our arguments by focusing upon recent discourses about identity and community, using three case studies.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/7263/
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Review of: Fred Powell and Martin Geoghegan, The politics of community development: reclaiming civil society or reinventing governance
(2005)
Cox, Laurence
Review of: Fred Powell and Martin Geoghegan, The politics of community development: reclaiming civil society or reinventing governance
(2005)
Cox, Laurence
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Book Review.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/461/
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Seeking A Model to Achieve Balanced and Sustainable Development: Kildare Town, Co Kildare.
(2007)
Kenny, Michael
Seeking A Model to Achieve Balanced and Sustainable Development: Kildare Town, Co Kildare.
(2007)
Kenny, Michael
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This is a draft consultation document for discussion purposes only in the process of seeking a more effective model for integrated community development. it is titled: Seeking A Model to Achieve Balanced and Sustainable Development:Kildare Town, Co Kildare. It is distributed in Kildare Town to stimulate discussion.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/490/
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Sizes of Permanent Campsite Communities Reflect Constraints on Natural Human Communities
(2017)
Kordsmeyer, Tobias; Mac Carron, Pádraig; Dunbar, R.I.M.
Sizes of Permanent Campsite Communities Reflect Constraints on Natural Human Communities
(2017)
Kordsmeyer, Tobias; Mac Carron, Pádraig; Dunbar, R.I.M.
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Both small-scale human societies and personal social networks have a characteristic hierarchical structure with successively inclusive layers of 15, 50, 150, 500, and 1,500 individuals. It has been suggested that these values represent a set of natural social attractors, or “sweet spots,” in organizational terms. We exploited the new phenomenon of permanent (i.e., residential) campsites to ask whether these values are present in the size distribution of the numbers of residents in these naturally small-scale communities. In two separate data sets of different grain, we find consistent evidence for sites with 50, 150, 500, and maybe 1,500 residents. We infer that these reflect numerical sizes at which communities may in some way be socially optimal. Our data do not allow us to say why this pattern emerges, but the consistency of the results and the fact that the predetermined sizes of permanent campsites adhere to this pattern suggest that it may arise from the limits on the number o...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/11647/
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State and Community in Rural Development.
(1986)
Breathnach, Proinnsias
State and Community in Rural Development.
(1986)
Breathnach, Proinnsias
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The growing role of the central state in assuming responsibility for rural development in Ireland is outlined, as is the recent emergence of a tendency towards increasing local self.reliance, particularly in the form of the community co-operative movement in the Gaeltacht. Relations between such local groups and state institu· tions have been far from satisfactory, and some suggestions for improvements in this respect are advanced.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9773/
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Studio 468
(2015)
O'Donnell, Aislinn
Studio 468
(2015)
O'Donnell, Aislinn
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Why have a studio in the middle of a community centre in Rialto? What could such a space possibly offer given the pressing everyday needs of many of the people who enter St Andrew’s? Such a venture might seem anomalous to those unaccustomed to having studios within working environments. Is it decorative? A diversion? An indulgence? Irrelevant? Or perhaps a quaint and patronising Victorian attempt at edification of the masses? The conjunction and association of those two words ‘art’ and ‘community’ unfortunately risks sanctioning the persistence of a tacit hierarchy between ‘proper’ art and that other kind of art that seeks to promote the common good or to emancipate, which thus serves another agenda. This is in part because the word ‘community’ is coded so that it doesn’t really mean the golf club communities of Enniskerry or the banking communities housed in the IFSC. Community implies those ‘others’ who differ from the hegemonic norm of the white, middle-class, Catholic, heterosex...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9163/
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Sustainable Community Development Toolbox
(2018)
Rooney, Niamh
Sustainable Community Development Toolbox
(2018)
Rooney, Niamh
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The Community Development through English Teaching (CODET) project is a joint initiative of ten European, Asian, and Latin American organisations. The project takes place over a two-year period and is funded by the European Union under Erasmus+ programme funding. The project aims to enable 16 young people aged 18 to 30 to do European Voluntary Service in Cambodia, Vietnam, Honduras, Mexico, Estonia, Czech Republic, Ireland and Slovakia and thus develop personal and professional skills as well as to support the development of local communities in these countries through teaching English and engaging in social community projects. Two resources were developed for the EVS volunteers to support them during their placements as part of this project. An English language teaching module was developed for use by volunteers with no previous English language teaching skills to teach people from local communities with little or no English language skills. Finally, this Sustainable Community Deve...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/10341/
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Sustaining community heritage: the case for political action
(2001)
MacGabhann, Seamus
Sustaining community heritage: the case for political action
(2001)
MacGabhann, Seamus
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The following is the gist of an oral presentation made to the Joint Dail-Senad Committee on Heritage and the Irish Language, Leinster House, 2 November 1999, at the invitation of the Committee. The presentation was made on behalf of The O'Carolan Harp and Cultural Festival, Nobber, The Meath Harp School and Meath Archaeological and Historical Society. The proceedings were televised on TG4. Traditional arts are the result of consensus in a community. Song, music, dance, verse and folklore express the personality and identity of a community over time. Song and verse - for instance the great folk songs"Donall Og" and "An Droighnean Donn" - give the permanence of art to the intimate experiences of the people. People's memories and emotions, their joys and sorrows, are caught in the sensuous sound-web of this richly verbal art and made resonant in the imagination. Snatched from the encroaching darkness of oblivion, their joys and sorrows live in the illumina...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/772/
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