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Class/Race Polarisation in Venezuela and the Electoral Success of Hugo Chávez: a break with the past or the song remains the same? (2008)

Cannon, Barry

Class/Race Polarisation in Venezuela and the Electoral Success of Hugo Chávez: a break with the past or the song remains the same? (2008)

Cannon, Barry

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Polls have repeatedly shown a class-based polarisation around Cha´vez, which some political science analysis on Venezuela has recognised. This paper seeks to show, however, that this class-based division needs to be placed in historical context to be fully understood. Examining Venezuelan history from the colonial to the contemporary era the paper shows, unlike most previous work on Bolivarian Venezuela, that race is an important subtext to this class-based support, and that there is indeed a correlation between class and race within the Venezuelan context. Furthermore, class and race are important positive elements in Cha´vez’s discourse, in contrast to their negative use in opposition anti- Chavismo discourse. The paper briefly reviews the Cha´vez government’s policy in tackling the class/race fissures in Venezuelan society, and concludes by asking whether these policies represent a change in the historical patterns of classism and racism within Venezuelan society or are simply re...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/11940/

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From Chasing Dots to Reading Minds: The Past, Present, and Future of Video Game Interaction (2006)

Marshall, Damien; Ward, Tomas E.; McLoone, Seamus

From Chasing Dots to Reading Minds: The Past, Present, and Future of Video Game Interaction (2006)

Marshall, Damien; Ward, Tomas E.; McLoone, Seamus

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It is the calm before the storm. By the end of 2006, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo will have released their new wave of gaming hardware, and the next round in the great video game battle will have begun. Capable of displaying photo-realistic images, and acting as the center of your entertainment lifestyle, these machines promise to change the face of gaming. Console games have moved away from the single-screen experiences of old, to multimillion dollar epics, featuring hours and hours of cinematic action. Truly, it is an exciting time to be a gamer. While visual and audio technology advances toward real-world fidelity, human computer interaction (HCI) — the methods by which users control the simulation — has not received the same degree of attention. But it now seems this aspect of the sense-of-presence problem may undergo a revolution similar to that of its audiovisual counterparts with the next generation of gaming devices. In this article, we discuss the driving forces b...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9273/

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LESSONS FROM THE PAST Why do famines still plague us? (2011)

Kearns, Gerard

LESSONS FROM THE PAST Why do famines still plague us? (2011)

Kearns, Gerard

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In East Africa, a humanitarian disaster is fast unfolding. The worst drought in 60 years means that crops have failed and livestock have perished. Poverty, climate change, and rising grain prices are combining to endanger a population already vulnerable to malnutrition and hunger-related diseases. More than 10 million people are affected across areas of Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda. Multitudes are on the move, leaving their homes and walking hundreds of miles to seek food and medicine in temporary feeding stations. Just last month, Islamic militants broke up camps at the Somali-Kenyan border, forcing tens of thousands to flee back into starvation. News reports describe mothers having to choose between buying medicine for their weakest child and nourishment for the others. They live in a situation in which everyday decisions are truly vital. Who is at fault for this awful situation? What are its likely consequences? One way to answer those questions is to reflect on past fami...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8639/

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Temporality and Irish Revivalism: Past, Present, and Becoming (2013)

de Brún, Fionntán

Temporality and Irish Revivalism: Past, Present, and Becoming (2013)

de Brún, Fionntán

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In the late Seamus Heaney's Human Chain (2010), his elegy for Colin Middleton "Loughanure" becomes a Proustian exercise in remembrance as well as an examination of individual legacy prompting him to return to his time at the Irish College (Coláiste Bhríde) in Rannafast in 1953. In the final two parts of the poem, the young Heaney's inadequacy in Irish dovetails the limitations of remembrance as the elder poet tries "to remember the Greek word signifying / A world restored completely: that would include / Hannah Mhór's turkey-chortle of Irish."1 The Irish College rite of passage is apt for many reasons. Heaney's elegy for Middleton centers on his painting of Loughanure, near Rannafast, which is part of the landscape the poet had recently traveled by ambulance having suffered a stroke—circumstances that clearly add urgency to remembrance. But equally, the Irish College experience was, and still is, about trying to reconnect with the lost legacy ...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/11928/

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The Ethnographic Past. (2017)

Mathur, Chandana

The Ethnographic Past. (2017)

Mathur, Chandana

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It is May 2015, and I am returning for a second fieldwork stay in the small Indiana town where I conducted doctoral fieldwork from 1989 to 1991. I have been on the phone from Ireland with some people I used to know. A former coal miner has told me that I am arriving just in time for the local Workers’ Memorial Day event. We meet up in a completely transformed shopping mall, and I follow his motorbike in my car as we drive down a highway that did not exist back then towards the premises of the Central Labor Council of Southern Indiana.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9958/

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The time scape of smart cities (2017)

Kitchin, Rob

The time scape of smart cities (2017)

Kitchin, Rob

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To date, critical examinations of smart cities have largely ignored their temporality. In this paper I consider smart cities from a temporal perspective arguing that they produce a new timescape and constitute space-time machines. The first half of the paper examines temporal relations and rhythms, exploring how smart cities are the products of and contribute to space-time compression, create new urban polyrhythms, alter the practices of scheduling, and change the pace and tempos of everyday activities. The second half of the paper details how smart cities shape the nature of temporal modalities, considering how they reframe and utilise the relationship between the past, present and future. The analysis draws from a set of 43 interviews conducted in Dublin, Ireland, and highlights that much of the power of smart urbanism is derived from how it produces a new timescape, rather than simply reconfiguring spatial relations.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9038/

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The timescape of smart cities: The Programmable City Working Paper 35 (2017)

Kitchin, Rob

The timescape of smart cities: The Programmable City Working Paper 35 (2017)

Kitchin, Rob

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http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9237/

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Transition Year, past, present and future (2019)

Jeffers, Gerry

Transition Year, past, present and future (2019)

Jeffers, Gerry

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n mid-July 2018, as part of a review of career guidance provision in schools, the economic consultants charged by the Minister with the task invited a cross-section of people to a day-long consultative event in Farmleigh in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. This followed an earlier invitation for public submissions. A striking feature of the day was participants’ focus on work experience placements at second and third level. Embedded in those conversations seemed to be a strong recognition by educators and other stakeholders that Transition Year (TY) is widely accepted as a vibrant, integral component of the Irish education system. And yet doubts linger. For the first twenty years of Transition Year there was little evidence the programme would ever move beyond a quirky, marginal anomaly thought up by a strong-willed Minister for Education who didn’t consult anyone about his innovation (Jeffers, 2015, p.97). One of Minister Richard Burke’s concerns back in 1974 was the large number of early...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/10489/