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A Transformationalist Perspective
Author: Ronaldo Munck
About the Author:
Ronaldo Munck is currently working at the President’s Office at Dublin City University as strategic director of the university’s engagement with globalization and social development. He was recently Professor of Political Sociology and Head of the Globalisation and Social Exclusion Unit at the University of Liverpool. He has published over twenty books in the areas of development studies, labor studies, and the new globalization studies. He is currently researching the role of global social movements in regulating free market global capitalism.
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Barbara Freitag
An air of mystery has surrounded the crude carvings of naked females, called Sheela-na-gigs, since their scholarly discovery some one hundred and sixty years ago. Especially puzzling is the fact that they occur predominantly in medieval religious buildings. High-minded clergymen have since defaced or destroyed many of these carvings, and for a long time archaeologists dismissed them as rude and repulsive full review
Pat Brereton
Utopianism, alongside its more prevalent dystopian opposite together with ecological study has become a magnet for interdisciplinary research and is used extensively to examine the most influential global medium of all time. full review
Gavan Titley
In contemporary societies and public discourses, the term `culture' has become a powerful and commonly held currency. Long regarded as one of the most complicated concepts in the human and social sciences, it increasingly takes on the appearance of a floating signifier attached to ways of life and life practices, collectivities based on location, nation, history, lifestyle and ethnicity, systems and networks of representation and meaning, and realms of artistic value and heritage. full review
John Walsh
It is time to debate the role and influence of the Irish language in contemporary Irish society, argues John Walsh of FIONTAR in this new occasional paper. Drawing on historical arguments that Irish is more than a code of communication and has a broader role to play in society, Walsh elaborates examines theories of development and sociolinguistics in order to deepen our understanding of this role. full review
Robert Elgie
Political Institutions in Contemporary France recognizes that French politics are at the very heart of contemporary European developments. Robert Elgie – among the best-known experts in French politics – has focused on the institutions of the Fifth Republic and now brings together all the key information students of French Politics or Comparative Politics need. Elgie explains in a concise and coherent way how the legal and constitutional powers of the country have developed, how the decision-making process happens in procedure and practice, and how the political system has changed since 1958. full review
Column Kenny
Sellafield is a dangerous and dirty nuclear facility. Irish people feared it even before the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001. Now, as terrorist strikes on nuclear power plants become a real possibility, the government of Ireland is taking international legal action to have Sellafield closed down. full review
Author: Farrel Corcoran
A new book by Professor Farrel Corcoran, School of Communications, studies the structural transformation now taking place in Irish broadcasting. For about 40 years, RTE's radio and television channels have played an enormous role in shaping Irish social and cultural life. full review
tracking the tiger
Author: Dr Helena Sheehan
Dr Helena Sheehan's original study, Irish television drama, appeared in 1987. It traced 25 years (1962-87) of Irish society in a process of social transformation and the role of television drama in a struggle to define the nature of that process. full review
Editor: Donla uí Bhraonáin
Consultant Editor: Caoilfhionn Nic Pháidín
This dictionary of terminology was compiled over the last ten years to facilitate the teaching of FIONTAR programmes in Dublin City University. full review
University Education in Irish: Challenges and Perspectives
Editors: Caoilfhionn Nic Pháidín, Donla uí Bhraonáin
Eleven contributions are published here from educationalists in Catalonia, Wales, The Basque Country, Scotland and Ireland. Their valuable insights provide an international framework for exploring the development of higher education that is culturally and linguistically distinctive. full review
Author: Andy Way (with Michael Carr)
Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation is of relevance to researchers and program developers in the field of Machine Translation and especially Example-Based Machine Translation, bilingual text processing and cross-linguistic information retrieval. It is also of interest to translation technologists and localisation professionals. full review
Author: Michael Cronin
Michael Cronin's new book , Time Tracks, is part auto-biographical/part observation of a time that has long-since past; memories of a 1960s childhood where biscuit-eating was a ritual - from scraping the chocolate off the Cadbury's Snack to removing the chocolate membrane off the marshmallows. full review
Author: Michael Cronin
Translation and Globalization is essential reading for anyone with an interest in translation, or a concern for the future of our world's languages and cultures. This is a critical exploration of the ways in which radical changes to the world economy have affected contemporary translation.”full review
Author: Eithne O'Connell
Many minority languages like Irish have tended to survive best in isolated areas while their use has been restricted primarily to domestic, educational and social domains. This has had a negative effect on the development of these languages, especially with regard to new terminology.”full review
Book contributors are staff in the Faculty of Humanities and St Patrick's College, edited by Brian Lawlor, Gill & Macmillan
Staff in the Faculty of Humanities and at St Patrick's College are strongly represented among the contributors to the massive Encyclopaedia of Ireland published in September. The 1256-page volume contains over 5,000 entries on the broadest-imaginable range of topics.”full review