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‘Teenage traumas’ The discursive construction of young people as a ‘problem’ in an Irish radio documentary
(2005)
Devlin, Maurice
‘Teenage traumas’ The discursive construction of young people as a ‘problem’ in an Irish radio documentary
(2005)
Devlin, Maurice
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Previous research has shown that media representations of young people consistently portray them as in one way or another ‘problematic’, but little such research has focused specifically on the medium of radio. This article contains a detailed case study of a radio documentary series broadcast in Ireland called The Teenage Years. It explores the editorial, rhetorical and narrative devices used to construct and sustain a mainstream clinical-psychological discourse of adolescence, one which effectively ‘pathologizes’ the teenage years. It also ‘homogenizes’ them, privileging age as an explanatory factor in shaping identity and development and thereby systematically ignoring other aspects of social inequality and stratification. It is argued that this is an important ideological dimension of the discourse expressed and enacted by the series.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8399/
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Clothing and meaning making: a multimodal approach to women’s abayas
(2018)
Bouvier, Gwen
Clothing and meaning making: a multimodal approach to women’s abayas
(2018)
Bouvier, Gwen
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This article takes a multimodal discourse approach to women’s fashion in the Middle East. It places the Islamic abaya in the UAE in the context of the wider literature on fashion and identity, exploring the way in which clothing features and forms can prescribe ideas, values and attitudes, and framing this discussion within newer ideas on globalization. As Roland Barthes argued, it is not so much personal choice or diversity in fashion that is of interest, but the kinds of values and expected behaviours that they imply. The abaya, on the one hand, represents a more newly arrived idea of traditional, local and religious identity, linking to some extent to an imagined sense of a monolithic notion of Islamic clothing. But, on the other hand, this is itself reformulated locally through international representations, ideas and values, and integrated with newer ideas of taste.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/11865/
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Contemporary discourses of working, earning and spending: acceptance, critique and the bigger picture.
(2003)
Ryan, Anne B.
Contemporary discourses of working, earning and spending: acceptance, critique and the bigger picture.
(2003)
Ryan, Anne B.
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It has become commonplace to assert that Irish people now have more choices and enjoy a higher standard of living than ever before. An assumption also exists that the role of the ordinary citizen is to be a member of the paid labour force and a consumer, in order to 'keep the economy going'. Many people consequently live in a work-earn-spend cycle, spending much of what they earn on possessions and services now considered essential for everyday life. Savings are at an all time low, and credit-card debt at an all-time high, especially among people under thirty five . Everyday life is often experienced as harried and fraught. Media discussions often portray Irish society as increasingly similar to that in the United States of America, often assuming that ordinary people have little choice regarding the shape of their lives .
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/913/
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Development Discourses: Conservative, Radical and Beyond
(1995)
Munck, Ronaldo; Fagan, Honor
Development Discourses: Conservative, Radical and Beyond
(1995)
Munck, Ronaldo; Fagan, Honor
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Development holds a central place in many debates but it is seldom deconstructed. It is a discourse made up of a web of key concepts which are simply taken for granted, in both its conservative and radical guises. Development is an amoeba-like concept – denoting everything and nothing – which creates a common ground for right and left to battle on. Thus, if there is a perceived impasse in development theory, this should be seen as due to the stultifying unity of the discursive field and not its regrettable fragmentation (Schuurman, 1993). We argue in this chapter that the crisis of development theory – and by implication the crisis of development perspectives in Ireland – is linked to the limitations of the modernist discourse. As we do not seek an abstract critique of existing radical debates, but a genuine transcending, we shall proceed first to catalogue the considerable achievements of this work – as exemplified in this book – in questioning the findings of conservative or ...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9009/
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Discipline and punish? Strategy discourse, senior manager subjectivity and contradictory power effects
(2014)
Dick, Penny; Collings, David G.
Discipline and punish? Strategy discourse, senior manager subjectivity and contradictory power effects
(2014)
Dick, Penny; Collings, David G.
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Responding to calls for a more localized and dispersed conceptualization of power in the study of strategy discourse and its power effects, this paper examines how such effects undermine and contradict each other in a mundane, routine interaction: a research interview between a corporate elite actor and one of the authors. Using a Foucauldian inspired discursive psychology approach to provide a critical analysis of brief stretches of talk in a research interview, we expose the inherent instability and contingency of strategy discourse as it is used to construct accounts of corporate success, failure and senior manager subjectivity. Our core contribution is to show that resistance to strategy discourse is discernible not only through how lower level or other actors contest or undermine this discourse, but also by observing the efforts of corporate elites to manage temporary breakdowns (Sandberg and Tsoukas, 2011) which disrupt the background consensus which ordinarily provides strat...
http://doras.dcu.ie/20970/
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Discourse and Connectivity: Capturing the voice of educators
(2013)
O'Riordan, Fiona; Bergin, Susan; Casey, Kevin; McNutt, Larry
Discourse and Connectivity: Capturing the voice of educators
(2013)
O'Riordan, Fiona; Bergin, Susan; Casey, Kevin; McNutt, Larry
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Events such as symposiums, conferences, and workshops provide excellent opportunities to disseminate research. The networking opportunities provided vis-à-vis informal conversations with like-minded individuals are invaluable. Attendees have the chance to share and discuss their values, beliefs, and experiences related to their practice. However, this networking is rarely formally recorded or disseminated to the participants or the wider education community. In order to address this shortcoming the authors developed a mechanism to capture this valuable information through an innovative framework, which addresses the challenge of capturing multiple disparate voices and conversations by providing an approach that encourages collaboration, sharing and dialogue. The approach involves providing iterative opportunities to review and re-engage with the data as it emerges and evolves. The structure of the framework is transferable, and experiences to date would suggest it has the potential ...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8688/
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Doing a Review of Literature
(2006)
Ryan, Anne B.
Doing a Review of Literature
(2006)
Ryan, Anne B.
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A Literature review is an in-depth examination of the significant material in books, journals and other sources relating to your topic. The aim is to explore what is already known on the topic and to introduce the main thinkers/writers in the area. A review helps you and your readers to acquire an understanding of your topic. It sets the scene for your research, placing your research question in context. The review is therefore a part of your academic development - of becoming expert on your topic. It is usually presented at the beginning of a thesis, after the introduction, and generally takes up about a third to a half of the word allocation of the thesis. In short theses this will probably be just one chapter, but in longer theses, the literature review runs to two, even three chapters. The best way to see how it is done is to look at other theses, which can be consulted in the university library.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/873/
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Facilitating transformative learning. Department of Adult and Community Education NUI Maynooth
(2004)
Ryan, Anne B.; McCormack, David; Ryan, Mary
Facilitating transformative learning. Department of Adult and Community Education NUI Maynooth
(2004)
Ryan, Anne B.; McCormack, David; Ryan, Mary
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This report is about research carried out with sixty-two tutors who have worked on the Certificate in Counselling Skills at the Department of Adult and Community Education, NUI Maynooth. This course is a foundation-level course, conducted at NUI Maynooth and at outreach centres throughout the Republic of Ireland, and it has attracted over 14,000 students since it began in 1984. It has developed within a context where the profession of counselling has emerged as separate from psychology, and in a social context of a growing awareness of the role of counseling. The course is also unique in the field of counseling education, in that it has adopted from the start an educational stance rather than a therapeutic one. All the course tutors are qualified and, for the most part, practising counsellors. Many who were core to the course in its early days were also heavily involved in establishing the Irish Association for Counselling and Therapy (IACT), now the Irish Association for Counsellin...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/914/
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Genealogy, method
(2009)
Crowley, Una
Genealogy, method
(2009)
Crowley, Una
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Genealogy is a historical perspective and investigative method, which offers an intrinsic critique of the present. It provides people with the critical skills for analysing and uncovering the relationship between knowledge, power and the human subject in modern society and the conceptual tools to understand how their being has been shaped by historical forces. Genealogy works on the limits of what people think is possible, not only exposing those limits and confines but also revealing the spaces of freedom people can yet experience and the changes that can still be made (Foucault 1988). Genealogy as method derives from German philosophy, particularly the works of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), but is most closely associated with French academic Michel Foucault (1926-24). Michel Foucault’s genealogical analyses challenge traditional practices of history, philosophical assumptions and established conceptions of knowledge, truth and power. Genealogy displaces the primacy of the subje...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/3024/
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How Critical is Talk? Discourses of Development Education among Facilitators in Ireland
(2017)
Dillon, Eilish
How Critical is Talk? Discourses of Development Education among Facilitators in Ireland
(2017)
Dillon, Eilish
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In this thesis I explore discourses of development education (DE) in Ireland with specific reference to DE facilitators' talk about DE and the meanings they ascribe to it. Building on existing research on discourses 'in' and 'of' DE, as well as debates about the politics of DE, I address the need for research which focuses on how DE is understood by those who support and promote it, and on the implications of their understandings for practice. Drawing on questionnaires, interviews and workshops with 21 facilitators who support and promote DE across a range of sectors, as well as interviews with nine key informants, I develop a framework for understanding different discourses of DE that they draw upon. In this framework, the DE dimensions of knowledge and understanding, skills, learning processes and action are identified as important, as are the aims, values and politics of DE. Drawing on the work of Vanessa Andreotti (2014), the framework identifies differe...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9558/
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Institutionalisation and the politics of memory in Albania
(2014)
Gjevori, Elvin
Institutionalisation and the politics of memory in Albania
(2014)
Gjevori, Elvin
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Institutionalisation is an important process which remains shrouded in mystery. Political science has experienced limited success in identifying the mechanisms conducive to institutionalisation mainly because mainstream institutionalist theories focus on Western states with structured institutions. As more countries attempt to democratise and consolidate their new institutions, this limitation becomes increasingly apparent and the need to address it more urgent. Therefore, I propose a new theory to account for institutionalisation in emerging democracies. The thesis argues that in democratising countries the memory of the past authoritarian regime and the transition‟s main crises shape elite interests in carrying out institutionalisation reforms. To substantiate the argument, I test it in case studies of military and judicial reform in Albania from 1992 to 2009. To trace the development of collective memory and its effect on political action, I investigate the coverage of three Alba...
http://doras.dcu.ie/19954/
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Interpreting and responding to expressions of mental pain: the inner and outer dialogues of the mental health nurse
(2009)
Casey, Briege; Gordon, Evelyn
Interpreting and responding to expressions of mental pain: the inner and outer dialogues of the mental health nurse
(2009)
Casey, Briege; Gordon, Evelyn
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The experience and expression of mental pain can be interpreted in various ways by the mental health nurse and the client during therapeutic interaction. This chapter explores how meanings of mental distress are configured through dialogue between and within the mental health nurse and the person in care. Here, the authors follow Bahktin’s (1981) thesis that meaning making is a dialogical activity, arrived at through engagement with one’s own internal voices and available dialogues and discouses in the surrounding context. Thus the nurses’s understanding or sense making of expressions of mental pain emerges from the interaction between inner (personal, embodied) and outer (professional / therapeutic, social) dialogues. These internal and external ‘voices’ inevitably influence the nurse’s engagement with the client; where these are unquestioned and congruent, the nurse enters into therapeutic engagement with a sense of clarity and purpose and when these dialogues are at variance,...
http://doras.dcu.ie/22282/
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Mediating abortion politics in Ireland: media framing of the death of Savita Halappanavar
(2018)
McDonnell, Orla; Murphy, Padraig
Mediating abortion politics in Ireland: media framing of the death of Savita Halappanavar
(2018)
McDonnell, Orla; Murphy, Padraig
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On 28 October 2012, Savita Halappanavar, an Indian woman living in Ireland, died in hospital while under medical care for a miscarrying pregnancy. According to her husband, her repeated requests for an abortion were ignored because of the presence of a foetal heartbeat. Ms Halappanavar’s death was a critical event in the process leading to a referendum on 25 May 2018, when the Irish electorate voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, removing the constitutional ban on abortion. The name Savita has become indelibly linked to the changing course of abortion politics, so it is timely to reassess the role of the media in shaping the parameters of the debate about the impact of her death on the issue. This study presents a frame analysis of Irish newspapers in the weeks following her death, mapping the political, medical, legal and socio-ethical discourses, as well as the related contemporaneous events that set the agenda for the type of debate that was to follow. It ide...
http://doras.dcu.ie/23145/
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Methodology: Analysing Qualitative Data and Writing up your Findings
(2006)
Ryan, Anne B.
Methodology: Analysing Qualitative Data and Writing up your Findings
(2006)
Ryan, Anne B.
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You have collected data or sourced it in documents. Now that you have it, you need to analyse it in order to produce findings. Much of what we offer in the way of practicalities in this chapter could be characterised as strategies for analysis, rather than shoulds (cf Richardson, 1990: 32). There are, however, some shoulds, such as the need to be sysematic and organised, and to present evidence to back up your findings. We make this clear when we discuss these processes.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/871/
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Methodology: Collecting Data
(2006)
Ryan, Anne B.
Methodology: Collecting Data
(2006)
Ryan, Anne B.
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Methodology refers to a 'perspective' of broad theoretically informed approach to research, which stems from the researcher's epistemological stance or philosophical/political position. Methodology is how researchers make their epistemology and theoretical stance work for them in their research. You might, for example, decide that any research you do should be as participatory as possible . You might decide to do action research with a group, whereby the group does research on a problem that it identifies, and in the process, tries to come up with a solution to the problem. By its nature, such a methodology is also participative.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/872/
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No apologies for cross‑posting: European trans-media space and the digital circuitries of racism
(2014)
Titley, Gavan
No apologies for cross‑posting: European trans-media space and the digital circuitries of racism
(2014)
Titley, Gavan
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This article proposes points of departure for researching the circulation and assemblage of racist ideas and racializing discourses in the trans-media space of interactive, hybrid digital media. It contends that racist mobilizations are increasingly invested in organized and opportunistic communicative actions that depend on the integration of interactive digital media to a wider media ecology and European political environment. Further, if social media can be understood as a constant ‘invitation to discourse’, then they also provide an invitation to discourse on the nature and scope of racism in a putatively ‘post-racial’ era. In contending that the affordances and dynamics of social media networks are politically generative in relation to the politics of racism, it proposes working with malleable resources in the sociology of racism to develop approaches that are not limited to the established focus on extremist sites, but that can account both for the circuitries of digital media...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/11860/
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Post-Positivist Approaches to Research
(2006)
Ryan, Anne B.
Post-Positivist Approaches to Research
(2006)
Ryan, Anne B.
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This chapter outlines the philosophical thinking behind this book. Take your time reading it and don't be put off if you encounter words and terms that are unfamiliar to you. These terms will become clearer as you read on. The chapter outlines the background and assumptions for many of the techniques and suggestions put forward in later chapters. Without some knowledge of philosophy or context, technique can become an empty process. Philosophy provides principles that can act as a guide when procedural advice does not address a particular issue. You might like to read this chapter at the start of your thesis process, But it is likely that you will dip into it from time to time, as certain questions arise out of the process of researching and writing the thesis. In this chapter, we briefly examine positivist ideas about research: what they are, where they come from, why they dominate the general view of research and why there is a need to move beyond their limitations. We go on ...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/874/
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Social Media and Its Impact on Intercultural Communication: The Challenges for a Discourse Approach
(2016)
Bouvier, Gwen
Social Media and Its Impact on Intercultural Communication: The Challenges for a Discourse Approach
(2016)
Bouvier, Gwen
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The wider field of discourse studies is still only beginning to turn its attention to social media, despite a number of notable scholarly works. This paper looks at some of the challenges for a discourse approach to multicultural communication on social media. It sees the global communication landscape as fundamentally transformed and shifted in the ways in which identities and communities play out. The paper concludes by thinking about what the consequence of these are, specifically the way identity is negotiated online, how cross-cultural debate pans out, how the status of knowledge is changing, and the relationship between the online and offline world. The challenge for discourse studies is to create more robust research and studies that provide concrete examples of these changes.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/11871/
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Subjectivity and consumption: concerns for radical adult education
(2004)
Ryan, Anne B.
Subjectivity and consumption: concerns for radical adult education
(2004)
Ryan, Anne B.
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This chapter posits that the linked issues of subjectivity and consumption are essential concerns for contemporary radical adult education. Radical adult education has 'a dialectical and organic relationship with social movements' (Crowther, Martin and Shaw, 2000: 172). It is socially and politically committed, in the sense that it seeks to promote equality and social justice. The term subjectivity is developed throughout the chapter, but, briefly, it refers to the subjective sense of the self, including ideas, beliefs and emotions. The term consumption is used here to refer to personal purchasing patterns in the North and the ways that status can be accorded to those who have a high number of material possessions. It is increasingly recognised that Northern patterns of consumption and the consumerist discourses that justify them are inimical to both global and local equality and social justice (Korten, 1998; Schor, 1998). The chapter hinges on the need for citizens in th...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/911/
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Surprise: Disconfirmed expectations or representation-fit?
(2006)
Maguire, Rebecca; Keane, Mark
Surprise: Disconfirmed expectations or representation-fit?
(2006)
Maguire, Rebecca; Keane, Mark
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Surprise for a particular event is often thought to correspond to the degree to which that event deviates from an expected schema. However, in this paper we present two novel experiments that challenge this view. Participants were asked to rate how surprised they would be if an event, or series of events, followed on from a number of short scenarios. In one condition these events confirmed an expected outcome, while in another they contradicted this outcome. A third condition included a potential enabling factor along with the unexpected outcome. The results show that, even when events deviate significantly from an established schema, surprise is lower if people have a means of integrating that event into their representation. This finding is consistent with our theory of Representation-Fit, which asserts that a person’s level of surprise for a given event can be determined by how well that event is supported by the prior discourse.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/12638/
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The age of interactivity: An historical analysis of public discourses on interactivity in Ireland 1995 - 2009.
(2012)
Barry, Marguerite
The age of interactivity: An historical analysis of public discourses on interactivity in Ireland 1995 - 2009.
(2012)
Barry, Marguerite
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Interactivity is integral to media and communications and yet is a contested concept in the literature. There is little agreement on its meaning not least because of its multidisciplinary nature. Previous research, concerned with finding a single definition of interactivity, has focused narrowly on specific contexts of communication using limited methodologies. This thesis argues that several meanings of interactivity are in circulation and that the search for one bounded definition constrains understanding of its role and fails to recognise its analytical potential. The study makes an original contribution to research by presenting findings from an analysis of public discourses on interactivity, a valuable source of material neglected in research to date. It shows that at least nine thematic representations of interactivity are in circulation representing different aspects of its role in communicative events. These are identified as the Empowering, Commercial, Pedagogical, Aestheti...
http://doras.dcu.ie/16800/
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The discursive politics of marketization in home care policy implementation in Ireland
(2019)
Cullen, Pauline
The discursive politics of marketization in home care policy implementation in Ireland
(2019)
Cullen, Pauline
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Ideational and gender discursive approaches are used to examine how implementing actors discursively engage with processes of marketization within home care policy in Ireland. Front line service providers, including private actors, non-profits and migrant care workers’ problem representations, solutions and underlying assumptions about what a care market is and should be offer insights into how practical experiences of market mechanisms are perceived to shape policy implementation. A focus on how implementing actors mobilize discursively on home care underlines how implementation should be viewed as a process that continues to be negotiated, often contested or even resisted, as it is implemented. Implementing actors’ legitimize, contest and adapt to the marketization of home care in divergent and overlapping ways as discursive agents that mediate between policy design and implementation reproducing in turn gendered and racialized ideas about care and care work.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/11972/
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The politics of Irish labour activation: 1980 to 2010
(2012)
Murphy, Mary
The politics of Irish labour activation: 1980 to 2010
(2012)
Murphy, Mary
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Unlike most OECD countries, Ireland has not yet developed full labour activation policy, but is under increasing pressure to do so. This paper explores why Irish labour activation policy and implementation stalled over the last three decades and the reasons for policy drift in this area. Framed by two crises, the paper maps the politics of Irish labour activation from the 1980s crisis up to the contemporary crisis. It first analyses the politics of labour activation by tracing shifts in political discourses about labour activation over the last three decades. It then draws on bottom-up implementation theory to examine the micro politics of implementation, referring briefly to implementation of supportive labour activation strategies in the 1990s and reviewing in more depth the National employment action plan in the 2000s. It then maps institutions, political debates and advocacy coalitions to assist in understanding the politics of Irish labour activation policy and how its implemen...
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/4619/
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They called a war, and someone came: the communicative politics of Breivik’s ideoscape
(2013)
Titley, Gavan
They called a war, and someone came: the communicative politics of Breivik’s ideoscape
(2013)
Titley, Gavan
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This article examines the intensely mediated debate on the relationship between ideological affinity and political implication that followed the documenting of the ‘citational ecology’ of Breivik’s 2083 compendium. Focusing on the recurring trope of war in counter-jihad blog posts and mainstream media comment, it argues that the invocation of ‘war’ is important beyond limiting debates on incitement and ‘moral responsibility’. Following Butler (2009), it examines this ‘frame of war’ and its poetics as the condition of counter-jihad networks and as the licence for mainstream polemics on the ‘failed experiment’ of multiculturalism
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/12987/
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Towards a more playful and politicized practice of guidance counselling
(2014)
O'Grady, Grace
Towards a more playful and politicized practice of guidance counselling
(2014)
O'Grady, Grace
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This paper is in the form of a short narrative trail through my developing ideas about identity and my increasing understanding of the power of discourse and language in constructing what we take to be real. It is part of a larger study which began with a curiosity about how young people in ‘late adolescence’ construct their identities (O’ Grady, 2012). I draw on some of that work in this article to provide a rationale for the need to develop a politicized practice of guidance counselling. A creative approach to research and counselling encourages the expression of multiple truths exposing knowledge as socially constructed (Eisner, 1988) and therefore open to reconstruction. In this way the approach is both playful and political. The second part of the paper attempts to offer some assistance in applying a critical psychology that is artful and politicized to the practice of guidance counselling.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/7099/
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