Handbook

CKE55 MA Sociology CKE56 Sociology of Development and

Globalization

CKG 55 PhD Track Sociology CKH 57 PhD Sociology

Discipline of Sociology

School of Sociology and Philosophy

University College Cork

Ireland

2017-2018

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CONTACT DETAILS

Department Address:

Askive, UCC, Donovan’s Road, Cork, Ireland

Tel: +353-214902318/2894 Fax: +35321-4272004

General Enquiries, Department of Sociology:

Caroline Healy caroline.healy@ucc.ie; Jerry O’Sullivan, jerry.osullivan@ucc.ie

Tel: +353-21-4902318

Information on the Postgraduate Programme:

Dr. Kieran Keohane, Chair of Graduate Studies Committee in Sociology

k.keohane@ucc.ie

Department Website: www.ucc.ie/sociology

ONLINE GRADUATE TEACHING RESOURCE: http://blackboard.ie

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Table of Contents

MA Sociology, MA Sociology of Development and Globalization, PhD Track Sociology, PhD

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Welcome 5 The Discipline 5 Administration 6

Routes to the M.A, M.Phil and Ph.D Degrees THE PH.D PROGRAMME 7 THE MASTERS IN SOCIOLOGY PROGRAMME 8 THE MASTERS IN DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALISATION PROGRAMME

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M.A. Assessment and Dissertation Requirements 33 Seminar and Dissertation Requirements 33 The Dissertation 34 Presentation and Return of Work 34 Assessment Procedures 34 Re-registration 34 Admission Requirements 36 Application Procedures 36 Other Matters 37 Graduate Representation 37 Staff Interests and Contact Details 38 Visiting Fellows 57

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Sociology

Welcome Welcome to the MA and PhD programmes in Sociology – to those returning to UCC, to those joining us from other institutions, and to those making enquiries for future years. Listed below is some key information about Sociology, our programme, staff interests and research projects, and the programmes/seminars offered in the coming year (2017-2018) The Discipline of Sociology in the School of Sociology & Philosophy Sociology at University College Cork, with Criminology is part of the newly formed School of Sociology, Philosophy and Government. We have a successful and popular undergraduate programme, with large student numbers. Sociology has a very strong postgraduate programme, offering Master’s and Ph.D. degrees for over thirty years. We offer a flexible, structured, modularized credit-based graduate research education programme that is inter-disciplinary, inter-institutional and international. Several of our graduates are now distinguished sociologists in their own right teaching at third level colleges in Ireland and elsewhere in the world; others are involved in full-time social research; and others are engaged in careers where a postgraduate sociological training is an integral aspect of their work. Some of our graduates, particularly from the Masters programme, have entered fields like teaching, journalism, human resources, the civil service, social services, community work and broadcasting where their postgraduate training is a valuable backup. We typically have 20-25 postgraduate students enrolled in the Masters and PhD. As well, the modular and credit based structure of our postgraduate programme enables students to undertake interdisciplinary postgraduate degrees. Sociology has research interests in a wide range of areas, enabling it to teach a diverse programme and, along with its central contribution to the BA undergraduate programme at UCC, to participate in many co-operative ventures (including the B.Soc.Sc, BSW, BComm, BBS/DBS, MBA, Film Studies MA, MPlan, MA Irish Studies Women's Studies MA, Public Policy, Nursing, and Medical Ethics). Its commitment to interdisciplinary work also emerges in its successful visitors’ Seminar Series, which is open to the wider UCC community and to the public. In particular, Sociology at UCC is recognised for its outstanding research and publications record (see staff interests and achievements below). For example, five

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members of staff have been awarded the UCC Arts Faculty Research Achievement Award. In the last Research Quality Review conducted by an independent panel of international reviewers Sociology scored 4 out of a possible 5, and the Review compared us favourably with the top 15 sociology departments in the UK and the US! Staff in Sociology have published extensively in their specialist fields and their work has been widely reviewed both in the national and international arenas. In addition, Sociology is currently conducting research projects - funded by the EU, Irish Research Council, Royal Irish Academy, PRTLI, the EPA and other research bodies. These research projects have generated doctoral and postdoctoral positions for researchers in recent years and we are highly committed to expanding the research capacity of Sociology. Some members of staff are regular contributors to the media, and our work is regularly reviewed or referred to in the media. Sociology has extensive research contacts with colleagues and institutions in the UK, Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Denmark, Spain, Hungary, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, Africa, the Middle East, India, Canada, Brazil and the USA. In its teaching and research Sociology seeks to further the unique contribution of the discipline both in the academy and in the wider public sphere. Along with providing training and expertise in the fields of social theory and research methodologies, Sociology is committed to offering challenging and quality courses that are relevant to the most pressing issues in contemporary societies – such as, global development, social inequality, environmentalism, health and well being, gender, race and ethnicity, multiculturalism, media and communication, cultural change, nationalism and community. Administration The MA and PhD Sociology and the MA Sociology of Development and Globalization is administered by the Department’s Graduate Studies Committee. Ongoing administration is carried out by this Committee. For general queries contact: Caroline Healy or Jerry O’Sullivan in the Departmental Office: +353-21-4902318

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THE PH.D.

PROGRAMME

Students who are registered for PhD and PhD Track in Sociology programmes must take three (10 credit) Graduate seminars from the discipline specific list below or from the list of CACSSS and University wide modules available. Each student must consult with their supervisor when selecting graduate modules All PhD and PhD Track students are welcome and are encouraged to participate in some or all of the Graduate seminars without submitting a paper Each PhD Track student must pass a progress review in order to upgrade to full PhD registration. The College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences require that all PhD Track students submit 10,000 words from their thesis between 12 and 18 months after registration. This work must be defended at interview with their supervisor and a progress reviewer from the Discipline Students who have already upgraded to PhD status will be requested to submit some or all of their work to date for annual review between upgrade from PhD Track and final submission of their thesis

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THE MASTERS IN SOCIOLOGY PROGRAMME

There are two distinct kinds of Masters in Sociology degrees: M.A. and M.Phil. The M.A. is finished in one year; the MPhil takes two years. The M.A. is taken by examination and minor thesis (20,000 words); the MPhil is taken by major thesis only (40,000 words). All incoming Masters Students are registered initially for the M.A. and take a required number of seminars (five in total). (Students who already have the M.A. and seek an MPhil are exempt from these requirements). All MA Sociology and Sociology of Development and Globalization students are required to take five seminars in total from the programme. This includes the ‘Social and Sociological Theory’ and the ‘Methodology and Methods’ seminars, which are compulsory for all Masters Students as well as three additional seminars from the programme outlined below.

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Social and Sociological Theory Seminar SC6608 Teaching Team: Staff Co- Coordinator: Professor Arpad Szakolczai All MA students will be required to take 24 hours of ‘Social and Sociological Theory’. The seminars on theory will introduce graduate students to some critical issues in the changing landscape of social theory. These seminars will have the twin aims of increasing general knowledge of and capacity to apply social theory. Students are required to write a 3000 word paper on this course. This paper can either be

(a) a critical review of a text assigned by one of the lecturers;

or (b) the application of theoretical frameworks outlined in the seminars to students'

research.

Details of seminars to follow.

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Methodology and Methods Seminar SC 6614 Teaching Team: Sociology staff. All first year students will be required to take 24 hours of methodology and methods. This course is presented in full awareness of the drastic changes that have taken place in both the philosophy and the practice of the social sciences during the past number of decades. Its aim is to provide an up-to-date context in which graduate students can develop the ability to reflect on the practice of sociology and, in particular, to refine their competence and skills to carry out theoretically informed and methodologically justifiable research from a number of different angles. The course is therefore divided into two parts. The first part under the traditional title of ‘Methodology’ provides a research oriented introduction to the conceptual paradigms that have emerged in the wake of the demise of positivism since the 1960s and the subsequent emergence of post-positivism. These paradigms are explicated through the exploration of three essential questions deriving from the philosophy of the social sciences: first, different frameworks of understanding employed or the kinds of knowledge pursued in social research, traditionally called ‘epistemology’; second, different conceptions of the nature and scope of the field of study or the kinds of object or reality referred to in social research, traditionally called ‘ontology’; and, finally, different theories of science or logics of research informing social research, traditionally called ‘methodology’. N.B Seminar Paper Question Students are required to write a 5-6000 word paper for this course: “Give an outline of the methodological approach that you regard the most appropriate to your research”. The module is delivered in 12 x 2hr seminars and is held on Tuesday, 4.00 pm-6.00 pm during the second term.

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In addition to the Social Theory and Methodology

courses which are compulsory, all students must take a

total of three other seminars from those listed below:

Globalization and Culture SC6623 / SC7623 Dr. Niamh Hourigan / Dr. Theresa O’Keefe

Course Objectives Globalization can be characterized as the increasing connectedness between people and places. Some of the key ways in which this connectedness is created is through technologies such as information and communication technologies, the greater use of air travel, global media news coverage and the spread of global capitalism. As people become more influenced by these elements of globalization, they become less limited by the culture of the specific place they live in. The distinctiveness of places themselves also becomes eroded by the influence of transnational chains of shops and restaurants and the pervasiveness of elements of global culture such as global English. For some this process of de-territorialization is a positive development allowing them to reject the limitations of local and national cultures. For others, who are deeply enmeshed in their cultures, the process of globalization represents a threat to their sense of identity. At the transnational level, non-stop flows of images, information and people via communication technologies have spawned intense debate about the impact of globalization on cultural diversity. Sociologists have made a significant contribution to this debate as they document and analyze the subtle and innovative ways that people formulate identities and meanings within the globalized political, economic and cultural systems that now increasingly encompass them. This advanced seminar provides you with the opportunity to explore the rich body of literature on the complex relationship between globalization and culture. Theoretical perspectives within Sociology are utilized to explore how cultural changes linked to globalization have impacted on relationships between trans-national institutions, states, regions, ethnic groups and local communities. A second focus of the course is to examine the role of communication technologies and the mass media in creating new forms of

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hybridity in the global cultural context. We will consider the impact of globalization on individual, collective and national identities, as identity plays a key role in how we experience culture. Finally, the variable ways in which individuals, collectivities and states have been differentially affected by, responded to, resisted and/or sought autonomy from increasingly globalized economic and cultural conditions will be examined through exploration of movements of resistance to globalization. Structure This course will run over four intensive one-day workshops each focusing on a specific theme. Students are expected to read all of the five pieces of the course material set for each workshop prior to attendance.

Workshop One – Definitions and Mechanisms of Globalization

Within the social sciences, globalization has become a deeply contested term. Within the global public sphere, it has become linked to range of controversial political and economic ideologies. This first workshop seeks to interrogate these debates in order to develop a more complete understanding of globalization. The main objectives of this first workshop are:

1. To interrogate of sociological and popular definitions of globalization in order to develop a more advanced understanding of the concept.

2. To examine the role of communications and travel technologies in generating globalization and explore how these technologies transform human relationships

3. To critically engage with the sociological literature which explores how these technologies which transform the relationship between time and space change the individual’s understanding and engagement with the world

Readings to be prepared for workshop B. Turner and R. Holton (2015) ‘Theories and Definitions’ The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization. London: Routledge Giddens A. (1990) Chapter One from The Consequences of Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press Robertson, R. (1995) Time-Space and Homogeneity – Heterogeneity in M. Featherstone and S. Lash (eds) Global Modernities. London: Sage Appadurai, A. (1990) ‘Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Economy’ in M. Featherstone (ed) Global Culture. London: Sage Barrangwanath, L. ‘Escaping the Grove of Globalisation: Distentangling description, discourse and action. New Zealand Sociology. Vol 19, No. 2 2004: 299-320

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Workshop Two – Globalization and Inequality (Economic, Political and Cultural Dimensions)

Although globalization is a phenomenon that has crept into every corner of the world, some locations have become more ‘globalized’ than others. Thus, globalization is an inherently unequal and uneven process. The main focus on this workshop is to interrogate the various dimensions of this inequality within globalization and the following themes will be explored.

1. Globalization, economics and inequality: focusing specifically on the role of global economic institutions in generating unequal economic structure. This discussion will focus not only on the role of globalization in generating inequality between countries at a global level but also the role of globalization in generating inequality within societies between different socio-economic groups

2. Globalization and Politics. This review will examine the weakness of global political institutions, the continuing dominance of American political influence and the rise of China as a political force. It will also examine the question of war within globalization

3. The final segment of the workshop focuses on these economic and political inequalities within globalization generate potential for cultural inequalities

Readings to be prepared for workshops Massey, D. (1993) ‘Power Geometry and a progressive sense of place’ in Bird et al. Mapping the Futures. London: Routledge Stiglitz, J. (2002) ‘The Promise of Global Institutions’ in Globalization and its Discontents. London: Penguin B. Burgoon (2012) ‘Inequality and the anti-globalization backlash’ European Union Politics 14(3): 408-435 S. Gamage (2015) ‘Globalization, Neoliberal Reforms and Inequality’ Journal of Developing Societies 31,1: 8-27 J. Pakulski (2015) ‘Global Elites’ Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies. London: Routledge Workshop Three – Globalization and Identity (Resistances, Hybridities

and Reconciliations) This workshop examines the variety of ways in which individuals, communities, ethnic minorities and nation-states have engaged with globalizations. It explores the tension between the distinctiveness of local place-based identities and the lure of global cultural forms. Three pathways for mapping the relationship between globalization and identity are examined.

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1. Resistances: This section of the course will examined the rise of ‘so-called’ fundamentalisms. It will examine the globalized nature of these phenomena and explore how they pose a challenge to the ‘values’ within globalization. 2. Accommodation: This segment will focus on the sociological literature which examines the range of reconciliations which have emerged between global cultures and local identities. This included work on hybridized culture, creolisation and glocalisation. 3. Embracing Global Culture: This final section examines whether a case can be made for the emergence of a dominance global culture which will dominate local identities and examines the pressures faced by minorities to embrace this culture out of economic necessity. The discussion will focus specifically on the question of language and the rise of ‘global English’ Readings to be prepared for workshops R. Holton (2000) ‘Globalization’s Culture Consequence’ Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science J. Nederveen Pietersee (2015) ‘Globalization as Hybridization’ Globalization and Culture: Global Melange. Rowman and Littlefield S. Turkle (1984) ‘Hackers: Loving the Machine for Itself’ The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. New York Touchstone. J. Roose and B. Turner (2015) Islam and Globalization: Islamophobia, security and terrorism. Routledge Handbook of Globalization Studies. London:Routledge Khatib, L (2003) ‘Communicating Islamic Fundamentalism as Global Citizenship’. Journal of Communication Inquiry 27: 389-409.

Workshop Four – Globalization, Culture and Ireland Having been listed as one of the most globalized countries in the world by Foreign Policy in 2002, Ireland presents one of the most interesting contexts in which to examine the risks and benefits of a whole-hearted engagement with globalization. This final workshop seeks to link some of the literature which has emerged around globalization in Ireland with the themes which have been interrogated in the other three workshops. This day’s discussion will focus on four questions:

1. Rich and poor: How did the generation of a new ‘economic’ elite via globalization change Irish society? How did the exclusion of the poor from the benefits of globalization impact on Irish society?

2. Globalization, Ireland and Values. A rapid form of globalization occurred in Irish society at the same time as secularization and the exposure (via tribunals) of the weakness of Irish civic culture and citizenship in Ireland. What are the values which now define Irish society?

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3. Globalization, Identity and Irishness: During the Celtic Tiger period, many aspects of Irish culture were turned into commodities while Ireland itself, became more culturally diverse (via immigration). In Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, what does it now mean to be Irish?

4. Having embraced globalization so enthusiastically, where is Ireland now located within global economic, political and cultural hierarchies?

Readings to be prepared for workshops Smith, Nicola (2004) Deconstructing ‘globalisation’ in Ireland’ Politics and Policy Vol 32, No 4.: 503-19. Van der Bly, Martha (2007) ‘Globalisation and the Rise of One Heterogeneous World Culture: A Micro-perspective of a Global Village’. International Journal of Comparative Sociology 48, 2-3: 234-256 T. Pappas and E. O’Malley (2014) Civil Compliance and Political Luddism: Explaining Violence and Social Unrest in Ireland and Greece G. Titley (2012) Budgetjam! A Communications Intervention in the Political Economic Crisis in Ireland K. Allen (2012) ‘The model pupil who faked the test: social policy in the Irish crisis. Critical Social Policy

Workshop Five - Gender, Feminism and Globalisation: Tensions and Challenges (Dr. Theresa O’Keefe)

Globalisation has been a subject of fierce debate for feminism with feminists divided over how to theorise and respond to globalisation. Many feminists have sought to focus on ‘neoliberal’ or economic globalisation and the ways in which it exacerbates gender inequality. Other feminists point to the enabling features of globalisation, like technology as a source of empowerment for women and a means of reducing gender inequality. With the popularisation of anti-sweatshop campaigns and anti-corporate globalisation protests of the 1990s, some argue that feminism has had a considerable impact on the globalisation processes while others point to the failure of gender mainstreaming developed via institutions of global governance as evidence of feminism’s inability to challenge gender inequality in this context. It is precisely these tensions and contradictions that will be debated in this workshop.

Themes covered:

1) Feminist theories of globalisation and gender inequality

2) Feminism and Institutions of Governance

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3) Feminist challenges to neo-liberal globalisation through social movements

Required Reading:

Conway, J., (2013) Transnational feminisms and the World Social Forum: Encounters and transformations in anti-globalization spaces. Journal of International Women's Studies, 8(3), pp.49-70.

Siddiqi, D. M. (2009) Do Bangladeshi factory workers need saving? Sisterhood in the post-sweatshop era1. Feminist Review, 91(1), 154-174.

Eschle, C., (2005) “Skeleton women”: feminism and the antiglobalization movement. Signs: Journal of women in culture and society, 30(3), pp.1741-1769.

Jaggar, A. (2002) “A Feminist Critique of the Alleged Southern Debt.” Hypatia 17(4):119-142.

True, J., 2003. Mainstreaming gender in global public policy. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 5(3), pp.368-396.

N.B Assessment The assessment of the course is completed through attendance, presentations and the submission of a 5,000 seminar paper on the following theme: Critically assess the process of globalization as a process of transformation in light of at least two of the following themes

- relationship between time and space - transformation of the global economy - relationship between power and inequality - identity, culture and resistance to globalization - globalization as a process of transformation in Irish society - the challenge which feminism presents to globalization

Globalization and Culture Reading List Agnew, J. (2009) Globalization and Sovereignty. Rowman and the Littlefield. Anderson, Benedict 1983 Imagined Communities. London: Verso Appadurai, Arjun 1990 ‘Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Economy’ In Featherstone, Mike (ed) Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity. London: Sage Bhagwati, J. (2004) In Defence of Globalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Castells, Manuel 1997 The Power of Identity, London: Blackwell Das, D (2009) Two Faces of Globalization. Munificient and Malevolent. Edward Elgar. Easterly, W. (2006) The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest have done so much ill and so little good. London: Penguin Featherstone, Mike (1987) ‘Lifestyle and Consumer Culture’ Theory, Culture and Society. 4(1): 55-70. Hall, Stuart (1990) ‘Cultural Identity and Diaspora In Rutherford, J (ed) Identity: Community, Culture and Difference. London: Lawrence and Wishart. Hannerz, Ulf (1991) ‘Scenarios for Peripheral Cultures’ in King, A. (ed) Culture, globalization and the world system. London: Sage Harcourt, W and A. Escobar (2005) Women and the Politics of Place. London: Routledge Hardt, M. And A. Negri (2000) Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Herman, Edward and Noam Chomsky (1994) Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. London and New York: Random House. Hourigan, Niamh (2003) Escaping the Global Village: Media, Language and Protest. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books Huntington, S. (1996) The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New York: Simon and Schuster. Keep, Christopher and Tim McLoughlin (1995) Marshall McLuhan and the Gutenberg Galaxy. Virginia: The Marshall McLuhan Centre for Global Communications. Jenkins, Richard (2004) Social Identity. London: Routledge Lechner, F. And J. Boli (2005) World Culture: Origins and Consequences. Blackwell. Massey, Doreen (1993) ‘Power Geometry and a progressive sense of place’ In J. Bird et al (eds) Mapping the Future: Global Cultures, Local Change. London: Routledge. McLuhan, Marshall (1964) Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man New York: Macmillan. Morley, David (2000) Home Territories: Media, Mobility and Identity. London: Routledge Norris, Pippa (2000) ‘Global Governance and Cosmopolitian Citizens’ In Held, D and Anthony McGrew (eds) Global Transformations Reader. Cambridge: Polity

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Ogan, Christine (2001) Communication and Identity in the Diaspora. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books Perrons, D. (2004) Globalization and Social Change. London: Routledge. Ritzer, George (1996) The McDonaldisation of Society. Newbury Park: Sage Robertson, R. (1992) Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture, London: Sage Robins, Kevin (1997) ‘Encountering Globalization’ In Held, D and Anthony McGrew (eds) Global Transformations Reader. Cambridge: Polity Saxenian, A. (2006) The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Schiller, Herbert (1985) ‘Electronic Information Flows: New Basis for global domination in Drummond, P and R. Patterson (eds) Television in Transition. London: British Film Institute. Scholte, J. A. (2000) Globalization: A Critical Introduction. London: Palgrave Sklair, Leslie (2002) Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives (3rd Edition) Oxford: Oxford: University Press. Smith, Anthony D. (1990) ‘Towards a Global Culture’ in Featherstone, Mike (ed) Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity. London: Sage Smith, Anthony, (1991) National Identity. London: Penguin Thompson, W and R. Reuveny (2009) Limits to Globalization: North South Divergence. Routlegde. Tomlinson, John (2000) ‘Globalization and Cultural Identity’ In Held, D and Anthony McGrew (eds) Global Transformations Reader. Cambridge: Polity Urry, J. (2003) Global Complexity. Polity Press. Veblen. Thorstein (1970) The Theory of the Leisure Class. New York: Mentor (first published by Macmillan, New York in 1899) Waters, M. (2001) Globalisation. London: Routledge Woods, N. (2005) The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank and their Borrowers. Cornell University Press. The module is held during the first term

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Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization SC6627 / SC7627 Dr. Kieran Keohane & Dr Myles Balfe

Neither the life (or the health) of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

C. Wright Mills (1959) The Sociological Imagination

The overarching theme of this course is an investigation of the ways in which contemporary malaises, diseases, illnesses and psychosomatic syndromes are related to cultural pathologies of the social body and disorders of the collective esprit de corps of contemporary society. Hence, the focus is directed at understanding contemporary problems of health and well-being in the light of radical changes of social structures and institutions, extending to deep crises in our civilization as a whole. Problems of health and well-being have hitherto been considered chiefly in isolation; both in isolation from one another, and in isolation from broader contexts. This path has shown to have severe limitations. Instead, we are interested in locating health and well-being not simply at the level of the individual body, but within a trans-disciplinary imagination that takes into account the integral human person’s situatedness within collective social bodies, particular communities, entire societies, or even whole civilizations, encompassing the health of humanity as a whole and our relationship with Nature. Hence, social pathologies are treated as multiple and as being related to one another, and as not merely problems to be understood and addressed at the level of the individual sufferer but rather as to be understood in social and historical terms. Instead of addressing these conditions as though they were discrete pathologies, specific diseases suffered by private individuals as ‘cases’, the starting point is thus that the sources of these problems are social, cultural, and historical: that they arise from collectively experienced conditions of social transformations and shifts in our civilization. This diagnostic of social pathologies of contemporary civilization suggests also a corresponding therapeutics. When we consider the challenges of recovery we realize that our individual and collective health and well-being will require more than changes at the level of the discourse of professional medicine, or at the level of the contents and forms of health services and policies, but, more fundamentally, a revitalization of our social, political, cultural and moral institutions. The first half of this module (taught by Kieran Keohane) will outline, analyse and critically interpret the pattern of contemporary illnesses, (e.g. suicide and deliberate self-harm; depression, anxiety and affective disorders; eating disorders, substance abuse; etc.) that have a sociological profile, one that transcends the particularity of their symptomology and their discrete etiologies. These diseases are symptoms of social and cultural pathologies, and disorders of the collective esprit de corps of contemporary society manifest in crime, deviance, and social disorder, and at the level of individual

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patients' bodies. These social pathologies arise from individual and collective experiences of social changes and cultural shifts. The second half of the course (taught by Myles Balfe) will examine the place that technology occupies in contemporary society. It will investigate the sociology of technology and the internet, including new social media technologies. Drawing on the concepts introduced in the first half of the course, the module will explore how technologies are impacting upon people's lives, identities, health and work, and why and how technologies can sometimes become pathological and connected with behaviours such as self-harm and anorexia. The module will also explore the benefits and opportunities that new technologies are offering people. We will draw upon a range of contemporary examples such as social networking, surveillance, streaming, artificial intelligence, digital piracy, music, technology in pop culture and the recent emergence of technological multinational companies." Mode of Delivery. 12 x 2hour seminars (Mondays, 5-7pm, Safari 01 dates tba) Assessment: Students must attend seminars and participate in classroom discussions. In addition, students will write a major research paper (max 5,000 words) on a topic to be negotiated. For example, students may develop a research paper around a particular disease, sociologically interpreting its etiology, symptomology and epidemiology in terms of its sources, course and effects; or, they may choose to focus more generally on the historical and sociological moral pathology and spiritual malaise of our times; or they may wish to engage systematically with one of the current debates mentioned above. Indicative Bibliography Some readings for this module are listed below. Additional sources (books, articles, films, art, etc) will be recommended in class. Antonovsky, A. (1987): Unraveling the Mystery of Health. How People manage Stress and Stay Well. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. Bauman, Z. (1995) Life in Fragments ‘Acceleration and its discontents’pps 77-88 Blum, A. (2012): ‘The enigma of the brain and its place as cause, character and pretext in the imaginary of dementia.’ History of the Human Sciences, October 2012 vol. 25 no. 4 108-124 Dufour, D-R. (2008): The Art of Shrinking Heads. On the New Servitude of the Liberated in the Age of Total Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity. Durkheim, E. excerpts from: Suicide; Moral Education; Division of Labour

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Ehrenberg, A. (2010a): The Weariness of the Self. Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. Fanon, F. (1970) ‘Colonial war and mental disorders’ in The Wretched of the Earth Ferguson, H. (1995) Melancholy and the Critique of Modernity London: Routledge Freud, S. Civilization & its Discontents pps 78 -104 Gadamer. H. G. (1996) The Enigma of Health Cambridge: Polity Honneth, A. (2014): ‘The Diseases of Society. Approaching a Nearly Impossible Concept’. Social Research: An International Quarterly, Vol. 81, No 3: 683-703.

Horwitz, A. V. (2002): Creating Mental Illness. Chicago: Chicago University

Keohane, K. A. Petersen & B. van de Bergh, B. (2017, forthcoming) Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents: Anxiety, Depression and Dementia. London: Routledge.

Kristevia, J. (1995) New Maladies of the Soul New York: Columbia UP

Marmot, M. (2004) Status Syndrome London: Bloomsbury pps 13-36; 142- 195. Petersen, A. (2004) ‘Work and Recognition’ Acta Sociologica vol 47(4) pps 338-350. & ‘Depression as a Social Pathology of Action’ Ratcliffe, M. (2015): Experiences of depression. A study in phenomenology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rosa, H. (2013): Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity. New York: Columbia University Press

Salecl, R. (2004): On Anxiety. London: Routledge

Sennett, R. (1998) The Corrosion of Character New York: Norton.

Shorter, E. (1997): A History of Psychiatry. From the era of the asylum to the age of Prozac. New York: John Wiley and Sons. Snowdon, D. (2001): Aging with Grace. What the Nun Study Teaches us about Leading Longer, Healthier, and More Meaningful Lives. New York: Bantam Books Taylor, C. (1989): Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Wilkinson, R. (2005) Health & Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier London: Routledge

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Sociology of Sustainable Development SC6631 / SC7631 Dr. Gerard Mullally A shift in register in environmental discourses in the late 1980s from environmental threat to sustainable development marked an official recognition that environmental problems are fundamentally social problems, but are also simultaneously global problems too (Szerszynski, Lash and Wynne 1996; Beck 1999). The ascendance of the discourse of sustainable development promised a fundamental and qualitative shift in the relationship between human society and nature. In perhaps the most recognisable formulation sustainable development has been defined as 'development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations to meet their needs' (‘Our Common Future’, 1987) The definition goes on to point out that sustainable development contains within it two main concepts: the concept of needs in particular the essential needs of the worlds poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environments ability to meet present and future needsIrwin points out that the concept of sustainable development was essentially the marriage of developmentalism (as a commitment to economic development) and environmentalism, which is neither straightforward nor without its critics e.g. Sachs (1999). Yet the discourse of sustainable development is an actively created framework for understanding our period in history (Irwin 2001). Sustainable development has been characterised as a latter day equivalent of a grand narrative ‘a way of seeing the present in the perspective of the future…with a societal storyline for justifying change’ (Myerson and Rydin, 1996). As Lafferty points out a realisation of sustainable development, particularly in the area of production and consumption and issues of global equity implies a transformative programme - a reorientation of the basic tenets of Western liberal-pluralist – capitalist society. With such monumental claims invested in the concept is it not perhaps sociologically naïve to begin from a policy-oriented discourse? The focus of this module is to explore the idea put forward by Irwin that the policy discourse acts as a window on several central sociological themes. These include: the call for fundamental social and institutional change at all levels of society from the global to the local; a quasi-religious sense of togetherness and globality as the human family struggles to deal with its problems; the notion that democracy, participation and empowerment are seen integral to sustainable development; and the evocation of a shared crisis. The module has two dimensions: The first critically examines the construction, elaboration and evolution of the discourse of sustainable development on an international and global level as a transformative project that attempts to reconceptualize the relationship between humanity and nature. It begins from the premise that sustainable development is, above all, a cultural form consisting of words, concepts, propositions, explanations, meanings and symbols, that provide legitimation to a range of distinct actors and agents to engage in certain kinds of action and to create certain kinds of institutions (Strydom 2002). Particular attention will

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be paid to the role of international actors like the United Nations, the OECD, the EU and transnational actors such as the global environmental movement and how they both coalesce and divide on the present and future direction of human social development. The second takes the example of Ireland as an illustrative case study of a country that has effected an economic transformation from one of the most underdeveloped countries in Western Europe to a much-vaunted exemplar of successful modernization by bodies like the EU and OECD. The emphasis will be on the ambivalent encounter between the discourse of sustainable development with its emphasis on themes of integration, equity, balance and futurity and the experience of recent and rapid social and cultural transformation of Ireland. As economic development brings not just an accumulation of materials but also materialism there is a growing sense of cultural malaise becoming evident in increased levels of protest over development options in Ireland. Particular attention will be given to how this relates to the transformative project of sustainable development and is revealed in discourses of environment and development. Workshop 1: The Concept and Discourse of Sustainable Development.

- concept and contestation - cognitive, normative and regulative aspects of sustainable development - convergence and divergence

Readings: Connelly, Steve (2007), ‘Mapping Sustainable Development as a Contested Concept’, Local Environment, Vol. 12, No. 3, 259-278. Jabareen, Yosef (2008), ‘A New Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Development’, Environment, Development and Sustainability, 10, 179-192. Kallio, Tomi J., Nordberg, Piia and Ahonen, Ari (2007), ‘Rationalizing Sustainable Development – A Critical Treatise’, Sustainable Development, Vol. 15, pp. 41-51. Lafferty, William M (2004), ‘Introduction: Form and Function in Governance for Sustainable Development’, in W.M Lafferty (ed.), Governance for Sustainable Development: the Challenge of Adapting Form to Function, Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar, pp. 319-360 Morse, Stephen (2008), ‘Post-Sustainable Development’, Sustainable Development, 16, 341-352. Workshop 2: Global Transformations, Local Transitions.

- Global Summits and Local Strategies - European Horizons - Local Experiences

Readings: Baker, Susan (2007), ‘Sustainable Development as Symbolic Commitment: Declaratory Politics and the Seductive Appeal of Ecological Modernisation in the European Union, Environmental Politics, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp 297-317 Göll, Edgar, and Lafond, Micheal (2002), ‘From Rio to Johannesburg and Beyond: A Long and Winding Road’, Local Environment, pp. 317-324.

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Göll, Edgar, and Thio, Sie Liong (2008), ‘Institutions for a Sustainable Development, Experiences from EU Countries’, Environment, Development and Sustainability, 10, 69-88. Rajamini, Lavanya (2003), ‘From Stockholm to Johannesburg: the Anatomy of Dissonance in International Environmental Dialogue’ RECIEL, Vol, 12, No.1, pp. 23-32. Sneddon, Chris., Howarth, Richard. B., and Norgaard, Richard. B (2006), ‘Sustainable Development in a Post Brundtland World, Ecological Economics, 57, pp. 253-268. Von Frantzius, Ina (2004),’ World Summit on Sustainable Development Johannesburg 2002: A Critical Analysis and Assessment of Outcomes’, Environmental Politics, Vol. 13, No.2, pp. 467-473. Workshop 3: Socially Sustainable Development

- Social and Institutional Capital - Social Movements and Sustainable Development - Social Networks and Social Change

Readings:

Garavan, Mark (2007), ‘Resisting the Costs of Development: Local Environmental Activism in Ireland: Environmental Politics, 16.5, 844-863.

Lehtonen, Markku (2006) ‘Deliberative Democracy, Participation and the OECD Peer Reviews of Environmental Policies’, American Journal of Evaluation, Vol. 27, No. 2, 185-200.

Newman, Lenore and Dale, Ann (2007), ‘Homophily and Agency: Creating Effective Sustainable Development Networks, Environment, Development and Sustainability, Vol. 9, No. 1, 79-90.

Rydin, Yvonne and Holman Nancy (2004), ‘Re-evaluating the Contribution of Social Capital in Achieving Sustainable Development’, Local Environment, 9: 2, 177-233

Various (2006), ‘Symposium: The Death of Environmentalism’, Organization and Environment, Vol. 19, No. 1.

Workshop 4: Sustainable Ireland? Readings: Flynn, Brendan (2007), The Blame Game: Rethinking Ireland’s Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy, Dublin and Portland: Irish Academic Press (Chapter 5) Kelly, Mary (2007), Environmental Debates and the Public in Ireland, Dublin: Institute of Public Administration (Chapter 7) Mullally, Gerard and Motherway, Brian (forthcoming 2008), ‘Governance for Regional Sustainable Development: Building Institutional Capacity on the Island of Ireland’, in

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John McDonagh, Tony Varley and Sally Shorthall (eds.), A Living Countryside? The Politics of Sustainable Development in Rural Ireland, Aldershot: Ashgate.

Mullally, G (2006), ‘Relocating Protest: Globalisation and the Institutionalisation of Organized Environmentalism in Ireland? pp. 145-167 in L. Connolly and N. Hourigan (eds.), Social Movements and Ireland, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press.

Tovey, Hilary (2007), Environmentalism in Ireland: Movements and Activists, Dublin: Institute of Public Administration. Workshop 5: Emergent Sociological Theories of Climate Change Readings: Compston, Hugh et. al (2009), Climate Change and Political Strategy’, [Special Issue] Environmental Politics, Vol. 18, No. 5. Coughlan, Oisín (2007), ‘Irish Climate Change Policy from Kyoto to the Carbon Tax: a Two-game Analysis of the Interplay of Knowledge and Power’, Irish Studies in International Affairs, Vol. 18, 131-153. Lever-Tracy, Constance (2008), ‘Global Warming and Sociology’, Current Sociology, 56: 455-484. Yearly, Steven (2009), ‘Sociology and Climate Change After Kyoto’, What Roles for Social Science in Understanding Climate Change?’ Current Sociology, Vol. 57: 389-405. Workshop 6: Reflexivity and Societal Change Readings: Bang, Henrik P. (2003), ‘Governance as Political Communication’, Henrik P. Bang (ed.) Governance as Social and Political Communication, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 7-26. Mullally, Gerard (2008), ‘Sustainable Development and Responsible Governance in Ireland: Communication in the Shadow of Hierarchy’, in Seamus O’ Tuama (ed.), ‘Critical Turns in Critical Theory’, Taurus Usui, Yoichiro (2007) ‘The Democratic Quality of Soft Governance in the EU Sustainable Development Strategy: A deliberative Deficit, Journal of European Integration, 29, 5, pp. 610-633. Voß, Jan-Peter and Kemp, Rene (2005), ‘Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development: Incorporating Feedback in Social Problem Solving’, Paper for IHDP Open Meeting, Bonn October 9-13. February Friday Mode of Delivery: The seminar is open to all students affiliated with the Irish Social Sciences Platform –ISSP. The module will be taught at UCC. It will be delivered in Teaching Period 2 in the form of Four x One-Day intensive seminars, supported by online resources (Blackboard). The dates of these seminars are as follows:

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Sociology of the Public Sphere SC6626 / SC7626 Dr. Patrick O’Mahony The public sphere is an often-referenced concept in sociology and it has claims to constitute one of its basic theoretical components. However, the concept is still relatively under-developed beyond the early pivotal contributions of Jurgen Habermas, the ongoing critique of this work, especially that inspired by Negt and Kluge’s contribution in the 70’s in, amongst others a feminist direction, some important essays by Nancy Fraser, Habermas’s own later contributions, and some comparatively recent work such as that of Emirbayer and Sheller, Mayhew and Hauser, and others. Much of this work is written from a normative standpoint addressing the relationship between communication in the public sphere and the role of the public in democratic societies. While the normative tenor of this work is to be welcomed, since the concept of the public sphere must address the relationship between public communication and democratic institutions, much is also left out by a failure to attend to how public communication can actually be conceptualized and analysed in specific contexts and within and across issues. The normative emphasis also needs radical sociological supplementation for a fully developed theory of the public sphere to be possible. Readings for the course will broadly follow the indicative themes outlined below. At the first session, proposals are put forward regarding the further development of the course and relevant student interests taken into account. The aim of the course is for students to gain familiarity with the sociological value of the concept of public sphere as a foundational concept for grasping all kinds of societal reflection, discussion and deliberation of a public nature. The readings for the course will follow the themes outlined below. Some indicative readings are also supplied below. The course will run through the second semester in two-hour blocks. Course Themes

- Habermas’s foundational account of the structural transformation of the public sphere and its later reception;

- Historical accounts of the evolution of the public sphere; - Habermas’s later work on deliberation, discourse ethics and the public sphere - The public sphere and liberal-representative elitism; - Radical alternative accounts of the public spheres; - Cognitive sociology as a new foundation for theorizing and applying the concept

(see O’Mahony below in indicative readings). Indicative Reading Asen, R. and Brouwer, D. 2001. Counterpublics and the State State University of New York.

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Calhoun, Craig (Ed.). 1993. Habermas and the Public Sphere. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Cohen, J. L. & Arato, A. 1992. Civil Society and Political Theory. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Emirbayer, M. & Sheller, M. 1999. ‘Publics in History’, Theory and Society, 27 (6), 727-779. Ferree, M., Gamson, W. A., Gerhards, J., Rucht, D. 2002. ‘Four Models of the Public Sphere in Modern Democracies’, Theory and Society, 31, 289-324. Fraser, N. 1990. 'Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy', Social Text, 25/26, 56-80. Habermas, J. 1996. Between Facts and Norms. Cambridge: Polity Press. Hauser, G. 1999. Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres, University of South Carolina Press. Negt, O. & Kluge, A. 1993. Public Sphere and Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. O”Mahony, P. 2013. The Contemporary Theory of the Public Sphere. Oxford: Peter Lang SC6638 Borders and Social Justice Dr. Tracey Skillington This course explores the impact of global processes of change on the borders of the sovereign state. Borders have always played an integral part of the 'imagining' of a sovereign political community and in the more contemporary global age, the borders within and between states are subject to significant transformation. Globally shared challenges like climate change, international poverty, economic crisis, diminishing access to natural resources are 'borderless' problems that face us all, yet states respond to the various 'chain effects' of such issues today, including displacement and migration, by asserting the preeminence of sovereign borders in the determination of the right of entry, the right of movement, access to entitlements and the allocation of citizenship. In light of the current international 'human rights crisis' (denied access to food, fresh water, arable land, livelihood, shelter) and ever-widening global social inequalities, this course critically explores what purpose borders fulfill today in the allocation of justice? The course will be designed around a social analytical framework exploring five thematic

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areas relevant to the study of borders. One session will be devoted to each research area. Session one: Understanding sovereignty: Is the authority of the nation state still based on a command over territory, a monopoly of legitimate force, and the definition of political community? There are many arguments that say 'no' and we will explore them. We will also examine what challenges does the emergence of a 'trans-sovereignty' pose to the nation state today? Session two: How and in what instances does the assertion of 'entitlement' become a 'hardened' border to global justice and democracy? The international politics of climate change is currently being played out through a scramble for the world's dwindling resources (conflict over arable land, crop yields, fresh water, hostile take-over bids of the world's oil and gas refineries). How are ideas of justice, equity and sustainability being defined at present through such global economic and political practices? Session three: Sovereign borders are being fortified at the same time as the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights announces that humanity is in the grips of a 'global human rights crisis'. Poverty and climate change are inducing major hardships on vulnerable regions of the world leading to a mass displacement of peoples. In this session, we assess how the issue of responsibility (for both climate change and its victims) is being articulated in international political discourse as fresh water becomes the 'defining resource of the future' and 'food shortages the defining issue'. We will look at what various sociological perspectives can be brought to bear on our understandings of such issues. Session four: The relativity of rights and the 'hypocrisy of sovereignty'. In this session, we will address the issue of denial. States continue to embed themselves more and more in international structures of co-operation (economic partnerships, military or peace alliances, environmental agreements, etc.) yet still express a desire to exercise significant autonomy and a tight control of immigration. We will assess the issue of 'hypocrisy' and note how the latter is currently being played out internationally in policy discourse and practices on border control, securitization, detention and exclusion. We will also assess to what degree there is an element of 'cultural insiderism' operative in current interpretations and applications of rights. The question is whose 'universal rights' are being prioritized? Session five: The current human condition requires a new approach to the social, ecological and political realities of the contemporary global world. The United Nations has begun to finally speak openly of state and inter-state obligations to those displaced peoples directly affected by climate changes now and indeed, whole communities of 'ecologically challenged states' in the future. We will look at how impending global realities can be actively addressed by reconfigured 'democratic communities' that exist between and beyond the sovereign state. What role can these communities play in the allocation of rights to resources and the reinterpretation of distributive justice under conditions of global scarcity? Readings will be distributed in class.

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SC6611 Sociology of Crime and Deviance: Crime and Social Development Professor Colin Sumner and Dr James Windle Safari G_01 Semester 2, Thursdays 5.00-7.00 pm Our objective in this module is to explore the ways intellectuals have understood or explained the social censure, stigmatization and exclusion or treatment of various groups of the population as matters of ‘crime’ and ‘deviance’. The different theories of crime and deviance reflect the main political positions in society. They also reflect growing secularization, the insecurities and fast-changing moral sensitivities of modernity, and the social conflicts that marked the twentieth century. In short, the theories and the targeted groups both reflect patterns of social development. This year, our emphasis will be upon the ways that modernisation and crime are linked, partly through changing political economy and partly by changes in culture. We will look at both the West and the 'developing' or poorer countries, and the last section of the course will focus on transnational illicit enterprises and mafias as examples of how the globalisation of capitalism and enduring inequalities of wealth and opportunity combine to sustain huge new industries. Sociology offers us great insights into the origins, processes, functions and outcomes of the social censure of crime, deviance and transgression. But that sociology is always a creature of its time. Therefore our course will look at different perspectives in sociology but always within their historical context. The textbook that will cover most of the course is: The Sociology of Deviance: an Obituary. 1994, Open UP and Continuum; now published by CrimeTalk Books, in 2013 as a reprint with new cover and in 2012 as pdf, available from the Sociology Resources Centre [SRC], paperback copies at €20.00. But see also: James Windle, 2017, Suppressing Illicit Opium Production: Successful Intervention in Asia and the Middle East. London Tauris. Colin Sumner (ed.), 1982, Crime, Justice and Underdevelopment. London: Heinemann. Photocopied chapters in the SRC. For those of you with little background in criminology, you should also read selections from: Tim Newburn [2017]  Criminology [3rd ed.]. Abingdon: Routledge. Students should also regularly read and explore CrimeTalk, my online resource for criminology students at www.crimetalk.org.uk Our lecture-seminar topics will be:

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1 Marx on industrial capitalism and de-moralization 2 Durkheim on modernization, social dis-integration and suicide 3 Cities, urbanisation, gangs and communities: the Chicago School 4 Selective policing, media, labelling and deviancy amplification 5 Stigma, asylums and scapegoats: Goffman 6 Colonialism and crime: state censure and the reconstruction of customary societies 7 The political economy of crime: new patterns, resistance through violence and social crime 8 Dictatorships: imperialism and the postcolonial state 9 Development and mafias in comparative perspective 10 Development, piracy and poaching 11 Development and illicit drugs at the source 12 Development and illicit drugs in Ireland SC6624 / SC7624 Modernity and Globalisation Professor Arpad Szakolczai Aim of the course: The course will provide a guide for understanding the processes that gave rise to the modern global world in which we all live. The rise of modernity, through its various revolutions (French, American, industrial, scientific, technological, and so on), was accompanied with broad promises about freedom, equality, unprecedented well-being and happiness. By now it is rather evident that such promises are not being met, but the world around us are indeed increasingly transformed, and quite seriously and increasingly destroyed. The main modernist intellectual frameworks, not only positivism and analytical philosophy, but even the various critical perspectives, relying on the works of Marx and Freud, are unable to offer a proper understanding, not to mention suggesting a way out of the dead end of global modernity. The course is based on a research project conducted over the past decades which so far yielded seven monographs, each published by Routledge, which attempt to bring together the most important thinkers, and figures of culture, that do not shy away from tackling directly the destructive nature of modernity. It will focus on the three main sources of such destructiveness: the ‘market economy’ (or rather fairground capitalism); the scientific transformation of nature (or rather alchemic technology); and the mass-democratic public arena. Logistics: The course will be organised in four one-day workshops, in the second term. Those attending the course will have to write a final paper, on a theme to be agreed upon.

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Readings: As I have published extensively about most of the themes to be covered in the course, these publications will be the primary readings, comparable to course notes. These are available in the Library, in the Information Room, or on-line. They also contain and extensive secondary reading list. The most important of these are Reflexive Historical Sociology (Routledge, 2000), containing a detailed discussion of classical authors; and the four more recent volumes: Comedy and the Public Sphere: The Re-birth of Theatre as Comedy and the Genealogy of the Modern Public Arena (Routledge, 2013); Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary (Routledge, 2016); Permanent Liminality and Modernity: Analysing the Sacrifical Carnival through Novels (Routledge, 2017); and Walking into the Void: On the Social and Anthropological Significance of Walking (Routledge, 2018, with Agnes Horvath). A more specific reading list will be distributed at the beginning of the course, updated at the start of each workshop.

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Sociology of Development and Globalisation

Programme

Course Team: Dr. Niamh Hourigan and Dr. Ger Mullally Course Description: The Department also offers an MA in the Sociology of Development and Globalisation. This programme was launched in 1990 and grew out of a long-standing interest in development issues within the Department. The importance and continuing relevance of an analysis of the global nature of our current world, at both the structural and cultural levels, is illustrated by the street confrontations over the World Trade Organisation’s meetings and by the less volatile, but pervasive “McDonaldisation” of culture and consumerism. However, at the same time, examples of resistance and conflict exemplified by events in Chechnya, East Timor, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Palestine remind us of the importance of the local and the specific in understanding regional developments as they articulate with the wider global trends. In our teaching and research, we draw on both sociological and anthropological perspectives. We are particularly interested in developing new ways of thinking about development and globalisation and the practice and policy implications of alternative approaches. The programme is premised on the assumption that while we can talk about “one world”, it is still a very unequal world, and increasingly so, and that this inequality needs to be both analysed and challenged. Therefore, the programme attempts to analyse critically the processes of the globalisation of poverty and inequality and explores alternative strategies of development by which people can liberate themselves from the structures and ideologies of domination. In the programme we recognise that poverty and inequality are not only about access to resources, but are based on ways of knowing, thinking, and feeling. Students registered for this programme must take SC6631 Sociology of Sustainable Development and SC6623 Globalization and Culture Seminars Offered:

• Dr. Niamh Hourigan: Globalization and Culture (see MA Sociology, Society and Mass Communication)

• Dr. Ger Mullally: Sociology of Sustainable Development

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M.A. Assessment and Dissertation Requirements

Seminar and Dissertation Requirements The MA programme is made up of seminars and a minor dissertation (20,000 words). Five seminar papers comprise 60% of the total mark for the M.A. The remaining 40% is made up by the dissertation. Seminar Papers All MA in Sociology and MA in the Sociology of Globalisation and Development students must take the Social and Sociological Theory and Methodology and Methods courses (see above for details) plus three postgraduate seminars. Both of the compulsory courses have 5 -6000 word assignments, each worth 10 credits. Seminars are held in both the first and second terms (see timetable below). You must submit a seminar paper for each seminar you take. Each seminar paper should be 5-6000 words in size and is worth 10 credits. Two copies of each paper must be submitted to the Department Office by a stated deadline, where they will be date stamped. Papers will be indicatively graded and returned to you normally within one month of their submission. Final grades will be confirmed by the External Examiner in June. Penalties (in the form of reduced marks) will be imposed for late submissions. • 1- 3 days late a 5% deduction will be made from the assigned mark. • 4 -7 days late a 10% deduction will be made from the assigned mark • 8-14 days late a 20% deduction will be made from the assigned mark. Example: If a piece of work is given a mark of 60% by the lecturer and the work is 1- 3 days late, the mark recorded for examination purposes will be 57%. If the work is 4 - 7 days late, the recorded mark will be 54, and if 8 -14 days late, it will be 48. The Department recommends the currently most widely used system, the Harvard system of referencing. Guidelines for the use of this system are to be found at: http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm

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Dissertation You should be planning your dissertation right from the beginning of the year. From February onwards it will be your primary concern as an MA student. A draft copy should be submitted to your supervisor by June, and a final copy by September. This deadline is strictly imposed by the Examinations Office, and under no circumstances are extensions granted. Students submitting work after this date must re-register and pay fees.

The Dissertation You will work with a supervisor in defining and planning the work for your dissertation. Supervisors will normally be allocated in February of each year. Some of you may have already established who you would like your supervisor to be in light of your research interests. However, you will have to complete a form early in the year indicating your research interest and your first and second choice of supervisor. You should meet with your supervisor as soon as possible once you have been allocated one and then at least once per month throughout the year. Presentation and Return of Work Students must submit two copies of all work for assessment. Two copies of all seminar papers must be submitted by stated deadline. Two unbound copies of the thesis are to be submitted to supervisors on or before the submission to the examinations Office in early October. Reader’s reports will be completed and agreed upon prior to the Internal Examinations Board meeting in November. All final work submitted for evaluation (seminar papers and dissertation) must be typed and bound, and must be free of spelling, typographical and grammatical errors. You are strongly advised to check, and double check, all papers and theses for errors before submitting them. Work which does not conform to the standards of presentation specified in the University Marks and Standards may be penalised or refused. The reading of drafts of seminar papers is a matter for negotiation between the staff member and the student. Supervisors will read and comment on drafts of theses provided they are submitted at a time that permits this. Note that supervisors may not always be readily available during the summer months due to vacation and research commitments.

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You should make appropriate arrangements to have contact with your supervisor regarding the reading of draft material during the summer period. Normally drafts of seminar papers or chapters of theses will be returned within two weeks of submission. Drafts of completed theses will be returned within four weeks of submission. Students should take note of these times and schedule their submission accordingly. N.B. Students are not allowed to present the same material for more than one seminar paper. Assessment Procedures All postgraduate work, seminar papers and theses, will be read by two members of staff. In addition your thesis will be read by the external examiner whose role it is to oversee the consistency of grading in the department and the overall standard of the department. Re-Registration Students who fail to complete their work within the specified time-period require the permission of the Head of Discipline to re-register. Students who fall seriously behind in their work may not be permitted to re-register as full-time students. Students who register ‘for examination only’ are not entitled to supervision.

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ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

The minimum standard for entry to the MA Programme is an undergraduate degree with Second Class Honours Grade 2, or equivalent, in Sociology. In exceptional cases we will accept applications from candidates who do not have an undergraduate qualification in Sociology, but who can demonstrate an equivalent level of competence. For PhD applicants the minimum requirement is possession of the MA degree in Sociology, or an MA in a closely related discipline, plus an undergraduate degree in Sociology.

Application Procedures Application for admission to the postgraduate programme is made through the Postgraduate Application Centre Applicants should visit www.pac.ie. for the relevant forms and further particulars. Other queries should be addressed to: Graduate Studies Office, West Wing, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Tel 353-21-4902645 Fax: 353-21-4903233 E-mail: postgrad@ucc.ie Non-EU students must apply to: International Education Office Tel: 353-21-4902543 Fax:353-21-4903118 Email: isoffice@ucc.ie Website: http://www.ucc.ie/international In addition to the general requirements of the Office of Postgraduate Admissions, we require: * A supporting letter. This should outline your intellectual biography and your reasons for pursuing postgraduate studies in sociology.

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* A research proposal. This should outline, as precisely as possible, a topic on which you propose to write a dissertation. It should define a problem, develop hypotheses concerning the problem, show the theoretical framework within which the problem and hypotheses are formulated, and indicate the method(s) which you will apply. While the research proposal will be important in the evaluation of the applicant's ability, successful applicants will be free to modify and alter their research interests in accordance with the knowledge gained and new perspectives encountered in the course of their studies. In formulating their research proposal, applicants should give careful attention to the research interests of the staff to ensure that the Department will be in a position to offer the specialised supervision they will need in carrying out their research. * A sample of your written work. For MA students, this could be a final year undergraduate essay or research project. For M.Phil/PhD applicants it will be your M.A. dissertation or equivalent (e.g. published papers). N.B. We may also require prospective applicants to present themselves for interview. The interviewing of overseas applicants may be conducted by telephone.

OTHER MATTERS

Postgraduate Representation Department meetings take place approximately once per month. Postgraduate students have right of representation at these meetings (except for meetings dealing with restricted business). Representatives are elected by registered postgraduate students. Elections should take place as early as possible in the academic year. Resource Centre The Department of Sociology has a Resource Centre that provides reading materials for all courses in Sociology. Ms Paula Meaney, the Resource Centre manager, will also be happy to give you advice and guidance. The Resource Centre is located on the ground floor of ASKIVE, the main Sociology building on Donovan’s Road. Opening Hours: Monday: 10.30 am to 12.30 p.m Tuesday, Wednesday: 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

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Thursday: 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Friday: 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Student Experience Committee The Department has a Student Experience Committee that consists of elected student representatives for the different courses and years, and a number of members of staff. The committee meets twice each term and enables students to contribute to the business of the Department. Students are urged to exercise their right to do this by direct participation on the committee or by channelling suggestions, comments and/or complaints through their representatives. The Department is proud of the fact that it is one of the few departments at UCC with such a committee, but its effectiveness depends upon the importance given to it by students.

Good academic practice guidelines for students. Dept. of Sociology, UCC.

All work submitted by students of the Department of Sociology, UCC is expected to represent good academic practice. Students are advised to ensure they make use of RED @UCC (Resources for Education) to familiarize themselves with some of the issues around academic cheating but also to be aware of what constitutes good academic practice. Both RED@UCC and internal documentation supplied by the Dept. of Sociology (style sheet and handbook) - available on the department home page - provide information about referencing, writing and academic misconduct. The University has produced a plagiarism policy http://www.ucc.ie/en/exams/procedures-regulations/ that clearly outlines what constitutes plagiarism and the procedure to be followed when a case of plagiarism is suspected. This document informs all Department policy in such instances. In the case of suspected plagiarism in ‘non-invigilated’ assessment (e.g. essays/dissertations), the assignment in question will be, in the first instance, referred to the Head of School/Dept. or nominee. If the HOS, HOD or nominee deems that there is a case to answer, the case can be either passed to the Exams and Records office, or a penalty can be applied locally. The penalties include:

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- Award of zero If there is evidence of plagiarism (or other academic misconduct) the student will be given the opportunity to respond to the allegation via email or in person. If a meeting is held, students are entitled to have a witness (non-contributing) present. If a penalty is applied locally, the student can choose to accept this penalty, or refer their case to the Exams and Records office (see the University Plagiarism Policy). As a means of ensuring good academic practice, the Dept. of Sociology reserves the right to use Turnitin software on any and all student submissions.

Staff Interests

Contact Details

For complete list of staff publications see the Sociology Department website www.ucc.ie/acad/socio Prof. Arpad Szakolczai B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Professor of Sociology E-mail: A.Szakolczai@ucc.ie Tel: 021-4902472/ Ext 2472 internally

Research interests Social theory (thinkers: Max Weber, Michel Foucault, Norbert Elias, Eric Voegelin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Reinhart Koselleck; themes: theorising experiences and events as the foundation of sociological methodology; the formation of identity, especially through mimesis and recognition; gift-giving and sociability as the foundation of sociological theory of order; liminality, periods of transition and social change; diagnosing and overcoming nihilism); - historical sociology (long-term comparative civilisational perspective; civilisational analysis, the civilising process; 'axial age' theories (Karl Jaspers, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Jan Assmann), 'reflexive historical sociology' (including also Lewis Mumford and Franz Borkenau); the links between pilgrimage, monasticism and the Crusades - especially Alphonse Dupront);

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- bringing together the links sociology has with anthropology (Marcel Mauss, Arnold van Gennep, Victor Turner, René Girard, Mary Douglas, Colin Turnbull, Gregory Bateson), and comparative mythology (Georges Dumézil, Karl Kerényi, Mircea Eliade, Walter Burkert); - history of sociological thought (apart from the classical figures, special interest in Gabriel Tarde, crowd psychology (Gustave Le Bon), elite theory (Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca, Roberto Michels), Karl Mannheim); - a problematisation of criticism, focusing on the 'radical Enlightenment', especially on the 'end of metaphysics' thesis; - sociology of religion; especially pilgrimage and monasticism; - sociology of values, especially the Rokeach test; - East-Central Europe.

Current research projects

- the sociology of comedy:

At the moment I’m completing a book manuscript on the genealogy of comedy. The idea is to reconstruct the effective history of comedy, since the 16th century, and thus demonstrate the extent to which crucial aspects of the modern world can be attributed to the impact of comedy, starting from the Italian Commedia dell’Arte, that arrived into Europe through Venice, after the sack of Constantinople, and much contributed to the end of the Renaissance.

- two global ages:

Following The Genesis of Modernity, the central idea is that the current debate on globalisation, which is extremely confusing and is all but hijacked by various and often very obsolete ideologies can be better situated on a comparative historical plane, using the parallels between the modern age of 'globalisation' and the previous 'global age' of world-conquering empires (Persian, Macedonian, Roman). This research path was opened up by the 'axial age' thesis of Karl Jaspers, based on Max Weber's work, and continued by Lewis Mumford or Eric Voegelin, more recently by Shmuel Eisenstadt and scholars associated with his research project like Johann Arnason, Peter Wagner, Bo Strath, Georg Stauth and Said Arjomand; the sociogenesis and psychogenesis of the civilising process championed by Norbert Elias (based on the work of Karl Mannheim), and also by his friend Franz Borkenau; and the 'genealogical method' inspired by Nietzsche and developed further by Michel Foucault.

- liminal crises and the return of the trickster:

This research project uses research in comparative anthropology and mythology in order to situate contemporary society. Using the concept liminality, derived from the study of rites of passage (Arnold van Gennep, Victor Turner, Gregory Bateson), the phenomenon of sacrifice and the problem of the sacred (René Girard, Giorgio Agamben), and the figure of the Trickster (Paul Radin, Karl Kerényi and Georges Dumézil), it argues that under highly volatile, confusing, 'liminal' conditions social life will become dominated by

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the 'sinister' impact of Trickster like figures that feel genuinely at home in the homelessness, whether other human beings are at easy, feeling alienated, anxious and despairing, and normal human life becomes impossible. Special emphasis will be paid to the question of the birth of the tragedy and the Dionysian, following Nietzsche and Kerényi; and the re-birth of tragedy with Shakespeare, and the role played by Trickster figures in Shakespeare's work. Central to this project is a complementing of Weber's pure type of 'charisma' using the 'archetypal figure of the Trickster. This project starts from the PhD dissertation of Agnes Horváth, and will be done together with her

- re-founding social theory:

On the basis of the various other research projects, and my previous work, I plan to bring together the various threads by developing of a genuinely social theory of order and change, using ideas on gift-giving (Mauss and the 'total social fact'), sociability (Simmel), the mimetics of desire (Girard), the link between identity and recognition (Pizzorno) and the dynamic model of the spiral. The central claim is that much of social theory is dominated either by individualistic theories, rooted in economic theory or legal philosophy, which are explicitly hostile to a 'social' theory; or 'critical' theories based on conflict, struggle, and violence, which are again, almost by definition anti-social, as conflict destroys the conditions of possibility of meaningful human coexistence. The aim is to develop a social theory starting at the 'in-between' level of experiences and events, focusing on the way stable identities are formed by such event-experiences and their interpretation, and how meaningful order can be upset and derailed by the intensive activity of 'Tricksters' during liminal conditions of distress.

- the end of metaphysics?:

Since the mid-19th century, but going back to the 'radical Enlightenment', it is widely assumed that the critique of religion, and the end of metaphysics, is the starting point of all forward-looking social theory. Comte's positivism was thought to end all religion and philosophy, Marx proclaimed the hatred of gods as the Preface to his doctoral dissertation, Nietzsche radicalised the critique of metaphysics, Heidegger declared Nietzsche the last metaphysician, Derrida declared Heidegger's 'Being' as the metaphysics of presence … can it be continued? Should it be continued? At the same time when this dead end was reached, a series of thinkers deeply steeped in the Central European tradition, and starting from Nietzsche, but then taking further inspiration from Plato, reached a completely different end-point: the reassertion of metaphysics. These include the Hungarian Karl Kerenyi, Bela Hamvas and Elemer Hankiss, the Czech Jan Patocka (the care of the soul), the Polish Julius Domanski (philosophy as a way of life), but also the Vienna-educated Eric Voegelin (metaxy, anamnesis), and the approach is also close to the works of influential French thinkers like Pierre Hadot (philosophy as a way of life, philosophical conversion) or Michel Foucault (the care of the self, parrhesia) in his last period. Following research done in some forthcoming publications, the aim is to develop along these lines a full-scale book project. The central concept of this project is the various, philosophical and religious approaches to conversion, arguing that nihilism can only be reversed by turning around. This project also incorporates the recent ideas of

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Agnes Horváth on Plato and the Florentine 'neo-Platonist', and will be done together with her.

Selected recent and major publications

Books:

Sociology, Religion and Grace: A Quest for the Renaissance. Routledge, London and New York, 2007.

Gli interpreti degli interpreti: l’Ione di Platone oggi (The interpreter of interpreters: Plato’s Ion today), (edited with Agnes Horvath), Ficino Press, Florence, 2008, 103 pp.

The Genesis of Modernity, Routledge, London and New York, 2003.

La scoperta della società (The discovery of society), (with Giovanna Procacci). Carocci, Roma, 2003.

Reflexive Historical Sociology, London, Routledge, 2000.

Identità, riconoscimento e scambio: Saggi in onore di Alessandro Pizzorno (Identity, recognition and exchange: essays in honour of Alessandro Pizzorno), (ed, with Donatella Della Porta and Monica Greco). Bari, Laterza, 2000.

Max Weber and Michel Foucault: Parallel Life-Works. London, Routledge, 1998.

The Dissolution of Communist Power: The Case of Hungary. London, Routledge, 1992 (with Agnes Horváth).

Recent articles and chapters:

‘In pursuit of the “Good European” identity: From Nietzsche’s Dionysus to Minoan Crete’, in Theory, Culture and Society 24 (2007), 5: 47-76.

‘Image-Magic in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Power and Modernity from Weber to Shakespeare’, History of the Human Sciences 20 (2007), 4: 1-26.

‘Il Rinascimento e le rinascite nella storia: verso una sociologia della grazia’, in Studi di Sociologia 45 (2007), 2: 123-45.

‘Citizenship and Home: Political Allegiance and its Background’, in International Political Anthropology 1 (2008), 1: 57-75.

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‘Anthropology beyond Evolutionism, or the Challenge of Prehistoric Cave Art: A Review Essay’, in International Political Anthropology 1 (2008), 1: 149-60

‘‘The Spirit of the Nation-State: Nation, Nationalism and Inner-worldly Eschatology in the Work of Eric Voegelin’, in International Political Anthropology 1 (2008), 2: 193-212.

‘World-Rejections and World Conquests: The Dynamics of War and Peace’, in Tilo Schabert and Matthias Riedl (eds) Die Menschen im Krieg, im Frieden mit der Natur (Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2006), pp. 147-63.

‘Global Ages, Ecumenic Empires, and Prophetic Traditions’, in Johann P. Arnason, Armando Salvatore and Georg Stauth (eds) Islam in Process: Historical and Civilizational Perspectives, Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam (Bielefeld, Transcript-Verlag, 2006), Vol. 7, pp. 258-78.

‘Identity Formation in World Religions: A Comparative Analysis of Christianity and Islam’, in Johann P. Arnason, Armando Salvatore and Georg Stauth (eds) Islam in Process: Historical and Civilizational Perspectives, Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam (Bielefeld, Transcript-Verlag, 2006), Vol. 7, pp. 68-93.

‘The Non-being of Communism and Myths of Democratisation’, in Alexander Wöll and Harald Wydra (eds), Democracy and Myth in Russia and in Eastern Europe (London, Routledge, 2008), pp. 45-59.

‘Sinn aus Erfahrung’, in Kay Junge, Daniel Suber, and Gerold Gerber (eds.) Erleben, Erleiden, Erfahren: Die Konstitution sozialen Sinns jenseits instrumenteller Vernunft (Festschrift in Honour of Bernhard Giesen), (Bielefeld, Transcript-Verlag, 2008), pp. 63-99.

‘Images of Society’, in Harvie Ferguson (ed.), Festschrift in Honour of Gianfranco Poggi (Bologna, Il Mulino, forthcoming).

‘Voegelin, Weber, and Neo-Kantianism’, in Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition: Explorations in Modern Political Thought, edited by Lee Trepanier and Steven McGuire (University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO, forthcoming).

‘Contemporary East Central European Social Theory’, in Gerard Delanty (ed.) Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory (Routledge, London+New York, 2006), pp. 138-52. (with Harald Wydra)

‘Civilization and Its Sources’, in International Sociology 16 (2001), 3: 371-88.

‘Experiential Sociology’, in Theoria (South Africa), (2004), 103: 59-87.

‘Elias and the Re-founding of Social Theory: A Comment’, in Current Sociology 53 (2005), 5: 829-34.

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‘Moving Beyond the Sophists: Intellectuals in East Central Europe and the Return of Transcendence’, in The European Journal of Social Theory 8 (2005), 4: 417-33.

Current teaching: SC1001: Introductory Sociology SC2001: Social Theory I (Classical sociological theory) SC3001: Social Theory II (Contemporary sociological theory) SC3009: Sociology of Religion SC3015: Project SC4005: Postgraduate course on social theory Dr. Niamh Hourigan B.A. (Hons), Ph.D. Head of Department E-mail: n.hourigan@ucc.ie Tel: 021-4902904/Ext 2904 internally Name: Dr. Niamh Hourigan, BA, Phd Position: Senior Lecturer T: 353 (0) 21 4902904 F: 353 (0) 21 4272004 E: n.hourigan@ucc.ie TEACHING INTERESTS (UNDERGRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE) Globalisation and Culture, Globalisation and Development, Social Structure, Inequality and Stratification, Political Sociology, Multiculturalism and Ireland, Individual, Collective and National Identity BIOGRAPHY Dr. Niamh Hourigan is a Senior Lecturer at the Dept of Sociology and Co-ordinator of the Dept’s MA Programme in the Sociology of Development and Globalisation. Her current research focuses on the response of Irish language activists to immigration as part of a broader assessment of the relationship between nationalism and multiculturalism in Ireland. Her PhD examined campaigns for indigenous minority language television services in Europe and was highly commended by the European Union’s Committee of the Regions. She previously lectured at the University of Limerick (1997) and between 1998 and 2002, was lecturer and co-ordinator of BA (Economic and Social Studies) at NUI Galway.

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She has published four books. Escaping the Global Village: Media, Language and Protest (Lexington Books, 2004) is the first comparative study of minority language media campaigns in Europe and has been positively reviewed in Current Sociology, Irish Journal of Sociology, Communications Research and the American Communications Journal. Her PhD (A Comparison of the Campaigns for Raidio na Gaeltachta and Telifís na Gaeilge) was the first book published in series entitled Irish Sociological Research Monographs (McGraw-Hill, 2001). She has co-edited with Linda Connolly, Social Movements and Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2006) an edited collection from leading Irish sociologists that documents new research on key social movements in Irish society. She has also just co-edited a new collection with Mike Cormack entitled Minority Language Media: Concepts, Critiques and Case Studies (Multilingual Matters, 2007) which aims to establish minority language media studies as a distinct field of research. Having worked as a journalist and presenter while completing her PhD, Niamh Hourigan is an active contributor to the media. Most recently, she has hosted Educating John, a four part series on Radio One which examines current educational challenges by exploring the path of one fictional person called John through the Irish educational system. She has also appeared on Questions and Answers, Today with Pat Kenny, The Message (BBC Radio Four) and The Sunday Show. RECENT BOOKS Hourigan, Niamh (2011) Understanding Limerick: Social Exclusion and Change. Cork: Cork University Press. Cormack, Mike and Niamh Hourigan (eds) (2007) Minority Language Media: Concepts, Critiques and Case Studies. Clevedon & New York: Multilingual Matters Series Editor: Prof. John Edwards (Paperback, Hardback and Ebook) Connolly, Linda and Niamh Hourigan (eds) (2006) Social Movements and Ireland. New York & Manchester: Manchester University Press (Paperback and Hardback) Hourigan, Niamh (2004) Escaping the Global Village: Media, Language and Protest. New York: Lexington Books (Paperback) (Hardback, 2003) Hourigan, Niamh (2001) A Comparison of the Campaigns for Raidio na Gaeltachta and Teilifís na Gaeilge. Irish Sociological Research Monographs. New York & London: McGraw-Hill. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

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Hourigan, Niamh (2007) ‘Mediating Diversity: Identity, Language and Protest in Ireland, Scotland and Wales’ in L. Cardinal and N. Brown (eds) Managing Diversity: Prospects for a Post-Nationalist Politics. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. Hourigan, Niamh (2007) ‘The Role of Networks in Minority Language Media Campaigns’ in M. Cormack & N. Hourigan (eds) Minority Language Media: Concepts, Critiques and Case Studies. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Hourigan, Niamh (2007) ‘Minority Language Media Studies – Key Themes for Future Scholarship’ in M. Cormack & N.Hourigan (eds) Minority Language Media: Concepts, Critiques and Case Studies. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Hourigan, Niamh (2006) ‘Movement Outcomes and Irish language protest’ in L. Connolly & N. Hourigan (eds) Social Movements and Ireland. New York & Manchester: Manchester University Press. Connolly, Linda & Niamh Hourigan (2006) ‘Introduction’ in L. Connolly & N. Hourigan (eds) Social Movements and Ireland. New York & Manchester: Manchester University Press. Hourigan, Niamh (2001) ‘New Social Movement Theory and Minority Language Media Campaigns’ in Toby Miller (ed) Television: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies (2002) New York: Routledge. JOURNAL ARTICLES Hourigan, Niamh (2004) Minority Language Media, Globalisation & Protest. Mercator Media Forum 5. Aberystwyth: University of Wales Press Hourigan, Niamh (2001) ‘New Social Movement Theory and Minority Language Media Campaigns’. European Journal of Communication 16 (1): 77-100. Hourigan, Niamh (1998) ‘Framing Processes and the Celtic Television Campaigns’. Irish Journal of Sociology. 8: 49-70. Hourigan, Niamh (1996) ‘Audience Identification and Raidio na Gaeltachta’ Irish Communications Review, 6: 3-10. REVIEW ARTICLES Review of Tina Hickey (1997) Early Immersion Education in Ireland: Na Naíonraí. Dublin: Institúid Teangolaíochta published in the Irish Journal of Sociology, 1999 Vol 9:pp.135-137 Review of Ronnaldo Munck (2005) Globalisation and Social Exclusion. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press published in the Irish Journal of Sociology, 2006, Vol. 15 No. 2

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PUBLISHED COURSE MATERIAL Hourigan, Niamh (2005) ‘The Globalisation Debate: Definitions and Dimensions’ Unit 1 of Sociology 2: Globalisation. Course Material Sociology. Dublin: National Distance Education Centre, Dublin City University Hourigan, Niamh (2005) ‘Globalisation and Economics’ Unit 2 of Sociology 2: Globalisation. Course Material Sociology. Dublin: National Distance Education Centre, Dublin City University Hourigan, Niamh (2005) ‘Globalisation and Politics’ Unit 3 of Sociology 2: Globalisation. Course Material Sociology. Dublin: National Distance Education Centre, Dublin City University Hourigan, Niamh (2005) ‘Globalisation and Culture’ Unit 4 of Sociology 2: Globalisation. Course Material Sociology. Dublin: National Distance Education Centre, Dublin City University Hourigan, Niamh (2005) ‘Ireland - A Globalised Society?’ Unit 5 of Sociology 2: Globalisation. Course Material Sociology. Dublin: National Distance Education Centre, Dublin City University This module on Globalisation was commissioned by the National Distance Education Centre (OSCAIL) Dublin City University. Each unit is approximately 7,000 and provides the core material for Sociology Degree and Diploma students undertaking the module on Globalisation. It is available to students in hardcopy and on the Internet at www.oscail.ie/sociology Dr. Patrick O'Mahony Ph.D. Senior Lecturer in Sociology Tel: 021-4902903/Ext 2903 E-mail: p.omahony@ucc.ie

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Background Dr. O'Mahony received his doctorate from the National University of Ireland in 1991 and spent the next seven years as Director of the Centre for European Social Research before taking up a position as lecturer in Sociology at UCC in 2000. He theoretical interests cover a wide span but are currently focused on questions of public participation and the public sphere. He has wide-ranging methodological expertise in a variety of research approaches and techniques. He has conducted and co-ordinated wide-ranging research, primarily focused on questions of environment, the societal implications of new technology and identity and ideology in Ireland. He is currently working on a book on the public sphere of biotechnology. Interests The public sphere and the theory of society; citizenship and public participation; textual research methodologies; sociology of communication; political sociology; sociology of science and technology. Selected Recent Publications O'Mahony, P. (forthcoming 2005) 'Nationalism' in Routledge Encyclopaedia of Social Theory, Harrington, A., Marshall, B., and Muller, H-P (eds) (by invitation) O'Mahony, P. & O'Sullivan, S. (2005.) 'Procedure and Participation: The Genetically Modified Plants Controversy in the UK and Ireland', in Bora, Alfons. and Hausendorf, Heiko. (Eds) Communicating Citizenship and Social Positioning in Decision-Making Procedures: The Case of Modern Biotechnology. Part of the Series, Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture. Edited by Ruth Wodak and Paul Chilton. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. O'Mahony, P. and Schaefer, Mike Steffen (2005) 'Media Discourse on the Human Genome in Germany and Ireland' Social Studies of Science Delanty, G. and O;Mahony, P. (2002) Nationalism and Social Theory (London: Sage) O'Mahony, P. (2002) 'Citizenship, Digitization and Citizen Services in Ireland' in Chaning Aspects: ICT supported development in rural areas' (Cork: South Western Regional Authority:) O'Mahony, P. (Ed) (1999), Nature, Risk and Responsibility: Discourses of Biotechnology (London: Macmillan) pps. 232 O'Mahony, P. and Skillington, T. (1999), 'Discourse Coalitions on Biotechnology in the Press' in O'Mahony, P. (Ed) Nature, Risk and Responsibility: Discourses of Biotechnology (London: Macmillan), pp. 100-113. O'Mahony, P. and Delanty, G. (1998), Rethinking Irish History: Nationalism, Identity and Ideology (London: Macmillan) pps. 222. O'Mahony, P. (1998), 'The Tension between Facts and Norms: A Response to

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Delanty on the Idea of the University' in Social Epistemology. 12, 1, 51-7. Bielenberg, A. and O'Mahony, P. (1998), 'An Expenditure-based Estimate for Irish National Income in 1907' in The Economic and Social Review, 29, 2, 107-133. O'Mahony, P. (1998), 'Sustainable Development and Institutional Innovation' in Research on the Socio-Economic Aspects of Environmental Change, pp. 435-440 (Brussels: CEC). O'Mahony, P. and Skillington, T. (1996), 'Sustainable Development as an Organising Principle for Discursive Democracy?' in Sustainable Development, 4, 1, 42-51. Reports (1994) (With Gerard Mullally) 'Report on Ecological Communication in Ireland between 1987 and 1992: Discourses, Frames and Resonating Themes' (incorporated into final report of project Framing and Communicating Environmental Issues: The Dynamics of Environmental Consciousness in Europe (no: EV5V-CT92-0153), coordinated by Prof. Klaus Eder of the European University Institute, pps. 40. (1996) (Edited report with sub-reports by Stephen Yearley, John Forrester, Tracey Skillington, Reiner Keller, Pedro Ibarro, Carlo Ruzza, Paolo Donati, Lynn Dobson, Anastasios Fotiou, Frank Semrau, Georg Jochum, Giampietro Gobo, Anna Lisa Toto, Anna Traiandafillidau, Pedro Ibarro, Inaki Barcena and earlier contributions from Klaus Eder, Karl Werner Brand and Mario Diani). Final Report to the European Commission of Research Project Sustainability and Institutional Innovation (no: EV5V-CT94-0389) coordinated by Patrick O'Mahony, (pps. 400; pps. 1-40 written by myself as coordinator). (1996) (With Noreen Kearns) 'Report on Survey Research on the Indicative Drug Prescribing Policy' commissioned by Professor Michael Murphy as part of his evaluation of the scheme for the Irish General Medical Payments Board, pps. 115. (1997) (Edited report with sub-reports by Cathal O'Connell, Gerard Mullally, Marie O'Shea, Lydia Sapouna, Inaki Barcena, Fulvia Concetti, Paolo Donati, Martin Hajer, Sven Kesselring). Final Report of the project Evaluation of Technological Options to Relieve the Challenges caused by the Saturation of Cities: Sustainable Mobility and Deliberative Democracy (no: PRVI-CT94-OOO5), coordinated by Patrick O'Mahony, pps. 320; pps. 1-23 written by myself as coordinator). (1998) (Co-authored with Tim Murphy and Marie O'Shea) Ecstacy Use among Young Irish People: A Comparative and Inter-disciplinary Study. Report to Enterprise Ireland, the Irish government agency for science, technology and innovation, pp. 154 (pp. 121-148 written by myself). (2001) 'Communicating Citizenship as an empirical phenomenon, A Contribution to first Paradys Workshop, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, Germany, June 29th

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(2001) 'Account of current legal-administrative arrangements for regulating plant biotechnology in the UK and Ireland and their social and legal contexts' A Contribution to first Paradys Workshop, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, Germany, June 29th 01 presented by Dr, Patrick O'Mahony, research work by Siobhan O'Sullivan, researcher Paradys project (2001) Presentation on Citizen Services to the South West Regional Authority organized workshop on citizen services at Inchydoney Island on December, 12th 2001 (an organization present has approached the candidate to provide research services following the presentation) (2002) 'Public participation in licening procedures for genetically modified plants' (Opening address to the 25 person international workshop on the same topic, part of the PARADYS project, was organized by me and held in UCC). (2003) Research report for fifth deliverable of PARADYS project 'Linguistic analysis of Irish interviews on genetically modified plants' pp25 June. Research Projects, Reports and Activities Co-ordinator of the new research project on "Public Participation in the Environmental Field' funded by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency and commencing in December 2004. This project will last for 12 months and will look at partications plans and citizen participation in the overall context of Irish public culture in comparative profile. Responsible Scientist for the Irish Research in the PARADYS project (Participation and the Dynamics of Social Positioning - the case of Biotechnology). Also responsible for the UK sociology research.This project involves detailed research into constructions of citizenship in public participation settings in the area of plant biotechnology. The final Irish and UK reports and other information on the project are available at: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/iwt/paradys/english_start.html Expert evaluator of major research projects financed by the European Commission in the period November 2001-2004 in the fields of policy, socio-economic models and political culture. Ongoing personal research project on the public sphere of biotechnology in the UK and Ireland, based on text analysis of interview and documentary data on plant biotechnology. This is currently being worked up into a book on this theme. Selected Recent Conference Papers (2004) "Theoretical reflections on the public sphere", paper delivered to EU workshop on the public sphere, co-ordinated by Thomas Mayer, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, May.

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(2003) Research report for fifth deliverable of PARADYS project 'Linguistic analysis of Irish interviews on genetically modified plants' pp25 June. (2002) 'Public participation in licening procedures for genetically modified plants' (Opening address to the 25 person international workshop on the same topic, part of the PARADYS project, was organized by me and held in UCC). (2002) 'Public participation in licening procedures for genetically modified plants' (Opening address to the 25 person international workshop on the same topic, part of the PARADYS project, was organized by me and held in UCC). (2001) Presentation on Citizen Services to the South West Regional Authority organized workshop on citizen services at Inchydoney Island on December, 12th 2001 (an organization present has approached the candidate to provide research services following the presentation) (2001) 'Account of current legal-administrative arrangements for regulating plant biotechnology in the UK and Ireland and their social and legal contexts' A Contribution to first Paradys Workshop, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, Germany, June 29th 01 presented by Dr, Patrick O'Mahony, research work by Siobhan O'Sullivan, researcher Paradys project (2001) 'Communicating Citizenship as an empirical phenomenon, A Contribution to first Paradys Workshop, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, Germany, June 29th

Professor Colin Sumner Position: Professor T: 353 (0)21 490-2900 F: 353 (0)21 E: c.sumner@ucc.ie Biography

Colin recently finished with 'retirement' and joined UCC to return to teaching sociology. His career really began with a lectureship in sociology at UCW, Aberystwyth. From 1977 to 1995, he was a Lecturer in Sociology at the Institute of Criminology and a Fellow of Wolfson College in Cambridge University. Later he became Professor of Criminology and Head/Dean of the School of Law in the University of East London until 2000. In this latter role, he was active on University Research, Research Degrees, Professorial Designations and International Marketing Committees, and a frequent adviser to Senior Management Team.

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Over the years, he had been a Visiting Professor of Sociology at Queen’s, St. Mary’s, and Simon Fraser universities in Canada, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong; a Visiting Professor of Law at the universities of Dar es Salaam and Victoria [Canada]; a Visiting Professor of Criminology at Barcelona and Hamburg universities; and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Sociology of Law at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.

In 1997, Colin co-founded and then edited Theoretical Criminology, the first truly global journal of criminology, published by Sage. For many years, he had been an Associate Editor for the journal Socio-Legal Studies. In 2004 he edited The Blackwell Companion to Criminology, having earlier edited a book series called New Directions in Criminology with the Open UP.

Research and Teaching Interests

Sociology of crime and deviance; social theory; criminology; education, digital knowledge and the web; sociology of law; media studies; research methodology; jurisprudence.

Colin has sole supervised 13 doctorates to successful completion and over 140 Master’s dissertations. He has also received grants for his personal research from the British Council, McCarthy-Tétrault, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Spanish Ministry of Education. Additionally, he has organized 3 major conferences: two in Cambridge - on Crime, Justice & the Media and on Crime and Justice in the Third World; and one for the Philippine government and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on Policing in a Multicultural Democracy. Books

Reading Ideologies (1979 Academic Press)

The Sociology of Deviance: an Obituary (1994 Open UP and Continuum, now in Spanish - 2012 CrimeTalk Books)

The Blackwell Companion to Criminology (ed. 2004 Blackwell).

Policing in a Multicultural Democracy (ed. 2000 Lorenzo Publications)

Violence, Culture and Censure (ed. 1997 Taylor & Francis)

Social Control and Political Order (1997, ed. with Roberto Bergalli, Sage)

Censure, Politics and Criminal Justice (ed. 1990 Open University Press)

Crime, Justice and the Mass Media (ed. 1982 Cambridge University)

Crime, Justice and Underdevelopment (ed. 1982 Heinemann)

Selected Articles

2012. Censure, culture and political economy: beyond the death of deviance debate. In S. Hall [ed.] New Directions in Criminological Theory. Cullompton: Devon.

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2006. Censure, criminology and politics. In I.Rivera, H.C.Silveira, E.Bodelón and A.Recasens (eds.) Contornos y Pliegues del Derecho. Barcelona: Anthropos, pp. 140-6.

2001. Entries on Deviance and Social Censure. In: E. McLaughlin & J.Muncie (eds.) The Sage Dictionary of Criminology. London: Sage, pp. 89-90 and 265-6.

1997. Censure, crime and state. In M.Maguire, R.Morgan and R.Reiner (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 499-510.

1990. Foucault, gender and the censure of deviance. In Feminist Perspectives in Criminology (L.Gelsthorpe and A.Morris, eds.). Milton Keynes: Open UP, pp. 26-40.

1983. Law and legitimation in the advanced capitalist state: the jurisprudence and social theory of Jurgen Habermas. In Legality, Ideology and the State (D. Sugarman, ed.). London: Academic Press, pp. 119-58. Reprinted in M.Vogel [ed.] Crime, Inequality and the State, 2007, London: Routledge.

1983. Rethinking deviance: toward a sociology of censures. In Research in Law, Deviance and Social Control, Vol. 5. (S.Spitzer, ed.). Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, pp. 187-204.

1981. Race, crime and hegemony. Contemporary Crises, 5 (3), 277-91.

1981. The rule of law and civil rights in contemporary Marxist theory. Kapitalistate, 9, 63-91.

1981. Pashukanis and the "jurisprudence of terror". Insurgent Sociologist, special issue, x (4) and xi (1), 99-106.

1976. Marxism and deviancy theory. In Sociology of Crime and Delinquency in Britain, Vol. 2: The New Criminologies (P.Wiles, ed.) London: Martin Robertson, pp. 159-74.

Dr. Gerard Mullally B.A, M.A., Ph.D. Lecturer in Sociology E-mail: g.mullally@ucc.ie Tel: 021 4902618/ Ext. 2618 internally Teaching and Research Interests Community; Environment; Sustainable Development; Social Movements; Multi-level Governance; Society and Energy; Democracy, Deliberation and Public Participation; Cultural Politics Recent Publications 2008, ‘Sustainable Development and Responsible Governance in Ireland: Communication in the Shadow of Hierarchy’ in Seamus O’ Tuama (ed.) Critical Turns in Critical Theory: Festschrift for Piet Strydom. Taurus Publications (forthcoming)

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2008 (with Brian Motherway), ‘Governance for Regional Sustainable Development: Building Institutional Capacity on the Island of Ireland’, in John McDonagh, Tony Varley and Sally Shorthall (eds.), A Living Island? The Politics of Sustainable Development in Rural Ireland, Aldershot: Ashgate. 2008 (with Jillian Murphy), ‘Ireland: Putting the Wind Up the Political System’, in William M. Lafferty and Audun Ruud (eds.), Promoting Sustainable Electricity in Europe: Challenging the Path Dependence of Dominant Energy Systems, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2006a, ‘Relocating Protest: Globalisation and the Institutionalisation of Irish Environmentalism?’ in Linda Connolly and Niamh Hourigan (eds.) Social Movements and Ireland, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2006b, (with Tara Mullally), Angels, Apostles and Acolytes: Social Intermediaries and the CSR Regime in Ireland, available at http://www.sum.uio.no/publications/pdf_fulltekst/prosusrep2006_02.pdf.

2004a, (with Aodh Quinlivan), ‘Environmental Policy: Managing the Waste Problem?’ in Neil Collins and Terry Cradden (eds.), Political Issues in Ireland Today, [Third Edition], pp. 117-134.

2004b, ‘Shakespeare, the Structural Funds and Sustainable Development: Reflections on the Irish Experience: Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 25-43 2003, ‘Tipping the Scales Towards Sustainable Development in Ireland: Lessons from Local and Regional Agenda 21, in William M. Lafferty and Micheal Narodoslawski (eds.), Regional Sustainable Development in Europe: The Challenge of Multi-level Co-operative Governance, Oslo: Programme for Research and Documentation for a Sustainable Society (ProSus), pp. 90-114. 2001a, ‘Starting Late: Building Institutional Capacity on the Reform of Sub-national Governance?’ in William M. Lafferty (ed.) Sustainable Communities in Europe, London: Earthscan, pp.130-152. 2001b, ‘Sustainable Development and Sustainable Tourism in Five National Contexts’, in Zinaida Fadeeva and Minne Halme. (eds.) The Emerging Paradigm of Sustainable Tourism: A Network Perspective, Lund: International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics (IIEEE), IIIEE Reports 2001:4, pp. 42-59. 2001c, ‘Understanding Sustainable Development in Nine Tourism Networks in Europe’, Zinaida Fadeeva and Minna Halme (eds.), pp. 75-102.

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1999, ‘Agenda-building through Local Agenda 21: Creating a Constituency for Change?’ in William M. Lafferty (ed.) Implementing LA21 in Europe: New Initiatives for Sustainable Communities, Oslo: Programme for Research and Documentation for a Sustainable Society (ProSus), pp. 171-190. 1998, ‘Does the Road from Rio Lead Back to Brussels?’ in William M. Lafferty and Katarina Eckerberg (eds.) From the Earth Summit to Local Agenda 21: Working Towards Sustainable Development, London: Earthscan. 1997, ‘Treading Softly on the Political System? The Irish Greens in the 1997 General Election, Environmental Politics, Vol. 6, No. 4, [Winter], 165-171. 1996, [Book Review] ‘Margaret Jacobs (ed.) The Politics of Western Science, 1640-1990, Science, Technology and Human Values, Vol. 21, No. 2, [Spring], 240-242. Courses Taught ‘Sociology of Organisations’ (3rd Year), Sociology of Development (3rd Year), ‘Research Methodology’ (M. Comm in Governance, Department of Government), ‘Research Methodology’ (M.Sc. in Management and Marketing, Department of Management and Marketing). Current Teaching ‘Introductory Sociology’, (1st Year), Research Methods [Theory Method and Argument](2nd Year), Sociology of Environment (3rd Year), Sociology of Community (3rd Year), ‘Sustainable Development’ (Module Co-ordinator and Lecturer, BSc. Environmental Studies, 4th Year). Additional Information Member of International Advisory Board, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. Member of International Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Environmental Planning and Policy. Member of Review Board, Ecopolitics Online. Member of Advisory Group on Cross Border Research on Local Agenda 21 on the Island of Ireland funded through the Centre for Cross Border Studies, Armagh (2002-3); Member of ENSURE – European Network for Sustainable Urban and Regional Development; Former Director and Member of Management Executive Committee, Cork Environmental Forum.

Kieran Keohane. M.Soc.Sc.; PhD. Senior Lecturer in Sociology. Tel: 021-4902836 E-mail: k.keohane@ucc.ie

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Kieran Keohane is an interdisciplinary sociologist working in the interpretive tradition, with research & teaching interests in social & political theory and in cultural sociology. He has published across several disciplinary fields, including sociology, politics, philosophy, anthropology, mythology, management, literature, Irish studies, psychology, and health. He has supervised ten PhD students to completion and he has supervised over fifty MA students. He is the recipient of a national teaching award. Kieran Keohane has led several inter-institutional initiatives nationally and is a member of international networks such as ‘Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization’. Under the auspices of the President of Ireland’s Ethics Initiative, Kieran Keohane co-founded the Centre for the Study of the Moral Foundations of Economy & Society at UCC & WIT, and ‘Community Voices for a Renewed Ireland’ Some recent publications: Keohane, K., A. Petersen, A. and B. van den Bergh (2017): Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents: Anxiety, Depression and Alzheimer’s Dementia as Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization. London: Routledge. (forthcoming) Imaginative Methodologies: Creativity, Poetics and Rhetoric in Social Research (2014) K. Keohane et al. (eds), London. Ashgate. What Rough Beast? The Political, Domestic and Moral Economies of post Celtic Tiger Ireland. (2014) K. Keohane and C. Kuhling. Manchester: Manchester University Press. The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization (2013) K. Keohane & A. Petersen (eds) London. Ashgate. “At Swim-Two-Birds Again: How to read what is to be read (and how the real returns to its place!)” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (2016) forthcoming.

“Flags, parades and Commemorating the Past: Remembering and Forgetting in Northern Ireland” International Political Anthropology Vol. 8 (2015) no. 2: 63-76.

“Hugh Brody’s Inniskillane: A Return Visit” Irish Journal of Anthropology 2015 Vol.18 (1): 72-76 “Possessing Utopia: a genealogical demonology” Irish Journal of Anthropology 2014 Vol. 17(1): 18-26. “On the Political in the Wake: Carl Schmitt’s and James Joyce’s Political Theologies” Cultural Politics 2011 Vol 7 ( 2): 249-264 “The darkness drops again: the Recurrence of the Táin foretold in the Corrib Gas Giveaway” Irish Journal of Sociology 2011, vol.18 (1). Dr. Myles Balfe Position: Lecturer

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E: m.balfe@ucc.ie Biography

Myles is a Lecturer in the Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine (STEM). He graduated with his Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield in 2006, and worked for a number of years as a researcher and lecturer in Public Health before joining the Sociology Department in UCC.

Research and Teaching Interests Sociology; social and health psychology; public health; ethics; social networks; chronic illness; technology; health behaviors; health inequalities; health professions, professionals and professionalism; medical deviance; stigma; risky and harmful behaviors (alcohol, self-harm and drug use); sexual health; violence; bureaucracy and organizations; caring; work, precarity and economic vulnerability.

Myles is currently supervising 2 Ph.D. dissertations and has supervised 5 M.A dissertations. Selected Articles Balfe, M. (2016). Standardizing psychological and medical torture during the War on Terror: why it happened, how it happened, and why it didn’t work. Social Science and Medicine, 171, 1-8. Balfe, M., Keohane, K. O’ Brien, K., and Sharp L. (In press, European Journal of Cancer Care). Social support, social negativity and social networks: the case of head and neck cancer caregivers. Balfe, M. (2016). Why did U.S. healthcare professionals become involved in torture during the War on Terror? Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 13, 449-460. Balfe, M., Gallagher, B., Balfe, S., Hackett, S., Phillips, J., Mason, H. and Brugha, R. (2014). The use of identity protection technologies by internet child sex offenders. Child Abuse Review, 24, 427-439. Balfe, M., Doyle, F., Smith, D., Sreenan, S., Brugha, R. and Conroy, R. (2014). What’s difficult about managing Type 1 diabetes in the workplace?’ Health and Place, 26, 180-187.

Dr. Tracey Skillington, BA, MA, PhD Email: t.skillington@ucc.ie

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Dr Tracey Skillington is a full-time lecturer in Sociology at University College Cork. Her interests include social theory, critical theory, political theory, social justice, cosmopolitanism, human rights, social justice, borders and climate change. Her publications date from 1996. More recent publications include (2012) 'Climate Change and the Human Rights Challenge: Extending Justice Beyond the Borders of the Nation State', International Journal of Human Rights, 16 (8); (2012) ‘Cosmopolitan Justice and Global Climate Change: Toward Perpetual Peace or War in a Resource Challenged World?’, Irish Journal of Sociology 2(20); (2013) 'UN Genocide Commemoration, Transnational Scenes of Mourning and the Global Project of Learning from Atrocity', British Journal of Sociology, 63(3); (2013) 'The Borders of Contemporary Europe: Territory, Justice, Rights', in Czajka, Agnes & Isyar, Bora (Eds) Europe After Derrida, Edinburgh University Press; (2013) 'Maintaining an International Order of Peace under Conditions of Growing Natural Resource Scarcity', Social Space 6(2); Climate Justice and Human Rights, Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming); (2014) 'Remembrance and Beyond: Holocaust Memory in Lived Time', in Seymour, David & Wodak, Ruth (eds) The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century: Contesting and Contested Memories, Routledge (in press); ‘Imaginaries of a Global Commons: Memories of Violence and Social Justice’, in Samuel Kirwan, Julian Brigstocke & Leila Dawney (eds). Space, Power and the Making of the Commons, London: Routledge (forthcoming). She is also currently editing a special edition of the European Journal of Social Theory (published by Sage) on 'Social Theory and Climate Change'. She recently completed seven years as a General Co-Editor of the Irish Journal of Sociology (Manchester University Press) and is currently a member of the Associate Editorial Board of Sociology, Official Journal of the British Sociological Association. Her co-editorship of the book series, New Visions of the Cosmopolitan (with Patrick O’Mahony) is ongoing. So far, several edited collections and monographs have been published in the series. She also has an extensive history of European social research, having worked on several international research projects funded by various EU research programmes. Her publications reflect her ongoing interest in critical social theory, the sociology of human rights, global justice, climate change, collective memory, trauma and social perspectives on violence. Research methods used include narrative research, critical discourse analysis, historical discourse analysis and frame analysis. Pre-2012 Publications Early Career Refereed Articles in Journals

1. 1996 (with O’Mahony, Patrick) ‘Sustainable development as an organizing principle for discursive democracy’, Sustainable Development. Vol. 4. Number 1.

2. 1996. ‘Embracing sustainable development: The role of business in the communication and application of environmental ethics’. Sustainable Development. Volume 4. Number 2.

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3. 1997. ‘Politics and the struggle to define: A discourse analysis of the framing strategies of competing actors in a ‘new’ participatory forum’. British Journal of Sociology. Volume 48. Number 3.

4. 1998. ‘The city as text: Constructing Dublin’s identity through discourse on transportation and urban re-development in the press’. British Journal of Sociology. Volume 49. Number 3.

5. 2009. ‘Demythologizing a neo-liberal model of healthcare reform: A politics of rights, recognition, and human suffering’, Irish Journal of Sociology, 17(2): Manchester University Press.

6. 2009. Introduction to the Special Edition of the Irish Journal of Sociology on Health, 17(2): Manchester University Press

Early Career Chapters in Books: 1. 1999. ‘Modernity’s organic economy of governmentality’. In O’Mahony, Patrick

(Ed) Nature, Risk and Responsibility. Basingstoke: Macmillan Palgrave. 2. 1999 (with O’Mahony, Patrick) ‘Constructing difference: Discourse coalitions on

biotechnology in the press’. In O’Mahony, Patrick (Ed) Nature, Risk and Responsibility. Basingstoke: Macmillan Palgrave.

3. 2006 ‘A critical comparison of the investigative gaze in three approaches to text analysis’. In Bora, Alfons and Hausendorf, Heiko (Eds) Analyzing Citizneship Talk. Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture. Series Editor, Wodak, Ruth and Chilton, Paul. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

4. 2009 ‘Critical Theory and Crisis Diagnosis: The Reconciliation of Reason and Revolution After 1968’. In Gurminder, Bhambra, K and Demir, Ipek (Eds) 1968 in Retrospect: History, Theory, Politics. London: Macmillan Palgrave.

5. 2009 ‘Linking Knowledge, Communication, and Social Learning: Critical Theory’s Immanent Critique of the Administrative State’. In O’Tuama, Seamus (Ed) The Critical Theory of Piet Strydom. London: I.B Taurus.

6. 2010 ‘Nurturing dissent in the Irish political imagination: Civic cosmopolitanism, legal consciousness and the new (post-national fight for freedom’. In Keohane, Kieran, and O’Mahony, Patrick (Eds) Irish Environmental Politics after the Communicative Turn. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

She continues to referee articles and book proposals for international journals and publishing houses, including the British Journal of Sociology, Theory, Culture & Society, the European Journal of Social Theory, and Palgrave Macmillan. Commissioned Research Reports

1. 1996. Irish report for the project ‘Sustainable Development and Institutional Innovation in Five European Countries’ (No. EV5V – CT94 – 0389) funded by DGXII.

2. 2000, Irish report entitled ‘reflections on the methodological aspects of the central concept of ‘social positioning’ and the communicating citizenship in decision-

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making procedures’ for the international PARADYS project consortium – ‘Participation and the Dynamics of Social Positioning’.

3. 2003. Irish report for the international PARADYS project (Participation and the Dynamics of Social Positioning’) entitled ‘Social positioning across different discourses on GM agriculture in an Irish legal context’.

4. 2004. With Patrick O’Mahony wrote the final report for the PARADYs project entitled ‘Participation, Discourse and Social Positioning on Plant Biotechnology in Ireland’. Funded by the EU. Number HPSA-CT2001-00050 524-5854.

5. 2006. With Patrick O’Mahony co-wrote the final report of ‘Public participation and the Water Framework Directive’, for project ‘Public Participation in the Environmental Field: Models and Prospects’. Funded by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency.

6. European Commission funded research conference: ‘Bio-ethical communication’, staged at the Centre for European Social Research, University College Cork (April 1995).

Visiting Fellows

In addition to the regular staff, there is normally some temporary and part time staff, as well as one or more visiting fellows in residence at the department during the academic year.