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Authors:Bhargabi Das, Sayan Dey, Su-Ming Khoo, Epifania Amoo-Adare Abstract: Irish Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Irish Journal of Sociology PubDate: 2024-07-26T08:54:45Z DOI: 10.1177/07916035241267045
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Authors:Elizabeth Boyle, Chelsey Collins, Victoria Krivoshchekova, Seungyeon Lee, Truc Ha Nguyen, Tiago Veloso Silva Abstract: Irish Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print. This short article reviews some of the colonial underpinnings of the field of Medieval Irish Studies (a subdiscipline of Celtic Studies), using the career of Whitley Stokes (1830–1909) as a case study in the entanglements between British colonial activity in India and the development of philological research on medieval Irish literature in the 19th century. It then proceeds to use autoethnographic reflections from graduate students in the field of Medieval Irish Studies whose backgrounds locate them at various intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. These reflections offer constructive pathways toward working to decolonize the discipline. Citation: Irish Journal of Sociology PubDate: 2024-07-25T11:23:39Z DOI: 10.1177/07916035241264080
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Authors:Tom Boland Abstract: Irish Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print. Career Guidance shapes the labour market by providing advice to school leavers, jobseekers and career changers. While there are a vast variety of approaches within Career Guidance, arguably there are central ideas within the discourse about the labour market reflecting cultural understandings of transition and transformation. To illustrate how Career Guidance understands the labour market, this article traces a genealogy from 19th century cultural ideas about careers from Smiles and Parsons to psychologised accounts from Maslow and Rogers. These imagine career transitions as personal transformations and recommend intensive interviewing to overcome internal barriers and unleash potential. Drawing from 15 interviews with Guidance Counsellors, the contemporary presence of this understanding of the labour market is traced. This emphasis on transformation variously reflects neo-liberal enterprise culture, religious ideas of vocation and modern experiments of the self, all of which emphasise internal potential over structural forces. Citation: Irish Journal of Sociology PubDate: 2024-07-23T10:47:33Z DOI: 10.1177/07916035241264081
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Authors:Elaine Keane Abstract: Irish Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article is about the perspectives of student teachers from working class backgrounds in Ireland about social class. In the context of drives to diversify the teaching profession internationally, examining how those from under-represented groups understand their identities assumes great importance. Employing constructivist grounded theory, 31 interviews were conducted with 21 student teachers from working class backgrounds exploring their perspectives on social class. While participants were clear that class ‘existed’ and remained highly relevant in Irish society, they emphasised silence about class in Ireland, except through forms of euphemising. Despite describing themselves in classed terms, most were critical of class categorisations believing they involved looking down on someone or being looked down on, resulting in feelings of shame and unworthiness. The findings are discussed relative to previous scholarship regarding silences about social class in Irish policy and cultural sociological theories of (class) disidentification. Citation: Irish Journal of Sociology PubDate: 2024-06-20T01:01:31Z DOI: 10.1177/07916035241259230
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Authors:Iarfhlaith Watson, Lorenzo Posocco Abstract: Irish Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print. RéamhfhocalSa staidéar píolótach seo rinneamar iniúchadh ar an gceangal atá ann idir labhairt na Gaeilge agus muintearas, ag díriú go sonrach ar chainteoirí Gaeilge ó chúlraí eitneacha agus/nó náisiúnta éagsúla i bPoblacht na hÉireann. Ghlac daoine, a raibh náisiúntachtaí agus eitneachtaí éagsúla acu, rannpáirt sa staidéar. Trí thaighde cáilíochtúil (ag amharc trí lionsa an náisiúnachais) rinneamar imscrúdú ar an gceist an dtugann labhairt na Gaeilge le mothú do dhaoine gur Éireannaigh iad. Ag an am céanna rinneamar scrúdú ar an eispéireas a bhí acu le daoine a bhí ag iarraidh iad a dhúnadh amach. Taispeánann ár dtorthaí an ról cumasaithe atá ag an nGaeilge do dhaoine ó chúlraí éagsúla, ag cuidiú leo imeascadh sa tsochaí, ag cuidiú leo cur i gcoinne an choimhthithe nó an chiníochais, agus i gcoinne daoine a cheistíonn cén fáth a bhfuil siad in Éirinn. Mar sin féin, d’fhéadfadh teannas a bheith ann idir Éireannaigh bhána agus iad siúd ó chúlraí éagsúla atá ina gcainteoirí Gaeilge, rud a thógann ceisteanna tábhachtacha maidir le coimhlintí agus toradh na gcoimhlintí sin. Tugann an staidéar seo bunléargais ar chúrsaí agus leagann sé béim ar an ngá atá le tuilleadh imscrúdaithe a dhéanamh sa réimse seo. Citation: Irish Journal of Sociology PubDate: 2024-06-12T03:29:07Z DOI: 10.1177/07916035241259228
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Authors:Tracey Skillington Abstract: Irish Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print. This paper offers a brief overview of the negative dialectical turn in Adorno's post-war writings when he began to give more serious attention to the type of ‘subjective possibilities’ generated by encounters with adversity. The analysis below explores the relevance of Adorno's work to current efforts to make sense of an increasingly felt contact with climate change harm. In particular, Adorno's insights on the paradoxical relationship that emerges between scenarios inspiring despair and hope for a better future. Rather than ignore contradiction and focus only on the possibilities and potentials that inhere in the good, Adorno's preference was to examine those that also emerge from a crisis ridden present. Similar to other Frankfurt School adherents, Adorno drew attention to an important distinction between inner and outer worlds and their critical mediation via the thinking process – the bridging of inner worlds of intuition, feeling, sense perception, the free flow of thought and imagination, and the outer world, episodes of violent destruction and ongoing change, noting how insights generated by the meeting of these worlds are never singular or straightforward in a positivist sense but are often marked by plurality, contradiction and transformation. The focus in this instance will be on how thinking about the climate present can also generate a thinking beyond to other possibilities (e.g. imaginaries of a future degrowth society). It will assess current moves to institutionalise new geo-engineering technologies to stabilise climate conditions and protect capitalism's growth imperative, noting how the contradictions inherent in such proposals can trigger a dialectical turn towards other futures and other relations with nature. Citation: Irish Journal of Sociology PubDate: 2024-06-11T08:17:28Z DOI: 10.1177/07916035241257990
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Authors:Philomena Mullen Abstract: Irish Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print. Reflecting the call for diverse opinions in knowledge production, this article is a personal perspective on the positioning of Black Studies in Ireland. Black Studies as praxi-theory foregrounds the inseparability of embodied experiences from epistemic subject, since the knowledge production process is inherently subjective. Within the Irish racial ecology, the specificities of being Black suggest using the term anti-blackness rather than racism to address systemic racial violence against the Black body. While the presence of blackness in Ireland challenges imagined narratives of racial homogeneity, anti-blackness is deeply entrenched within academic texts, materials and ideas, shaping knowledge production cultures and systems. To understand the nature of anti-blackness in Ireland, a number of concepts which inform the author's work will be introduced. Xeno/miso-phenotypic prejudice encompasses both bias and aversion in relation to the Black body. Unexpected Irishness reflects the dissonance in some imagined white spaces, discourses and epistemes when confronted by the onto-epistemological totality of blackness. The author, positioned as a Black academic teaching Black Studies, underscores the potential tokenisation of Black scholarship within Higher Education Institutions and the toll on Black academics’ well-being. The text calls for a genuine elevation of Black Studies, acknowledging its power to unsettle academic complacency. Citation: Irish Journal of Sociology PubDate: 2024-06-07T11:48:11Z DOI: 10.1177/07916035241259281
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Authors:Nasrin Khandoker Abstract: Irish Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article uses auto-ethnography to analyse the trajectory of an anthropologist and feminist from South Asia to Europe. Through analysing this journey it aims to turn anthropology's gaze from the margin to the centre. Tracing the trajectory, the article contrasts the dominant disciplinary frameworks for generating knowledge in the Global North and the Global South. This comparison suggests the need to focus on decolonial and feminist politics in anthropology in the Global North. To elaborate on the argument, this article historicises and problematises anthropology's discomfort with feminism, which contributes to a distance from political positioning and the obstacles to creating a solid foundation for feminist anthropology in the Global North. The article also analyses the forms of marginalisation practised in neo-colonial anthropology within the neo-liberal knowledge industry in the disciplinary sphere of the Global North, and the ways in which they could be challenged and reversed. It discusses the complex dynamics of gender, race, and colonial legacies, advocating for a reorientation within anthropology that acknowledges and searches for ways to resist the enduring influence of colonial power structures. In short, the article engages with anthropology's systemic, epistemological and methodological decolonisation as a discipline and practice. Citation: Irish Journal of Sociology PubDate: 2024-06-07T11:47:42Z DOI: 10.1177/07916035241258004
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Authors:Bhargabi Das Abstract: Irish Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print. This paper will look at loneliness as both an affective and a political reality, rather than simply a subjective individual feeling. Using auto-ethnography, I will look at my own PhD experience as a migrant woman of colour in a largely white male dominated Irish academia. I situate this loneliness of PhDing by looking at (a) loneliness of a migrant body of colour and (b) how this loneliness is accentuated by neo-liberal academia. Irish university spaces provide an ideal context to understand the politics of loneliness of minorities because besides being white, these spaces are also extremely neo-liberal, with the country's austerity politics changing its higher educational spaces forever. While talking about loneliness of migrant PhD students of colour as structural and institutional violence, I also illustrate moments of ‘speaking up'. Finally, the paper understands how foregrounding and weaving care and community as ethics into the everyday can one aim to contend with such loneliness of migrant woman precarious academics of colour, particularly within Irish higher educational spaces. Citation: Irish Journal of Sociology PubDate: 2024-06-07T05:03:28Z DOI: 10.1177/07916035241259254
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Authors:Barry Cannon, Shane Murphy Abstract: Irish Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print. The Republic of Ireland has seen numerous protests around asylum seeker accommodation since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with noted involvement of the far right. But what are protestors actually demanding' And how do they feel about far-right involvement in such protests' This article is based on quotes found in 144 media articles, published between November 2022 and July 2023, from people protesting in support of and against asylum seeker accommodation in the State. It finds that among those protesting against such accommodation, complaints about security, access to services and lack of consultation predominate. Nevertheless, many such protestors repeat common far-right racist and xenophobic tropes while simultaneously distancing themselves from the far right. Similarly, those supporting asylum seeker accommodation reject the far right while recognising the validity of many of the structural and political complaints of those who protest against asylum seekers. Based on this analysis, we suggest that such apparently dichotomous thinking among protestors deserves further research scrutiny, particularly, with regard to difficulties in disentangling far-right-inspired racist and xenophobic tropes from legitimate grievances around structural and resource issues. Citation: Irish Journal of Sociology PubDate: 2024-06-06T01:12:26Z DOI: 10.1177/07916035241259252
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Authors:Johan Gordillo-García Abstract: Irish Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print. After the Mexican ex-president Felipe Calderón declared a ‘war’ against criminal organisations, the number of murders and people reported as disappeared increased steadily in the country. However, the authorities constantly ensured that these crimes occurred exclusively among criminals. This narrative was fractured when, after the murder of his son in 2011, the poet Javier Sicilia started leading the protests of activists, relatives of victims and social organisations from virtually all of Mexico. After some mobilisations, they adopted the name Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD). Following a ‘players and arenas’ understanding of social movements, I analyse the formation of the MPJD as a self-identified compound player. First, I explore the structural and agency elements in the participants’ backgrounds. Then, I discuss how the emotional content of the interactions in public demonstrations influenced their relationships developing a sense of community that fostered their identification as part of the MPJD. Overall, this study advances a micro-level perspective to understand the dynamics of collective action. Citation: Irish Journal of Sociology PubDate: 2024-05-23T06:09:08Z DOI: 10.1177/07916035241256204
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Authors:Kevin Ryan Abstract: Irish Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print. In this essay to mark the centenary of the Frankfurt School, I situate the (his)story of domination between critical theory and critical fabulism. The version of this (his)story crafted by the first generation of Frankfurt School thinkers is anchored in the idea of ‘the masses’, and in the first part of the article, I track this through the work of Theodore Adorno, drawing on Grant Kester's writings on ‘exculpatory critique’. The second part of the paper pivots to Saidiya Hartman's method of critical fabulism, which affords a way of refiguring the relationship between aesthetics and politics while also refusing the idea of the masses. In contrast to Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory, which is an all-or-nothing wager with a future currently foreclosed and forever deferred, in the world(s) that Hartman fabulates, the revolution is always already happening. Citation: Irish Journal of Sociology PubDate: 2024-05-22T12:42:09Z DOI: 10.1177/07916035241256222
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Authors:Su-ming Khoo Abstract: Irish Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article unpacks some complexities of ‘decolonizing’ in Ireland, a complicated semiperipheral ‘mixed colony’, in which rhetorics, logic, and grammar are simultaneously colonial and decolonial, interrupting and complicitly reproducing divisive and dehumanizing colonialities of knowledge and being. The global call to decolonize academia invites Irish social scientists to confront significant social divisions, economic precarities, and epistemic erasures. I present ‘decolonial repair’ as a doubled figure of return and mending, engaging the decolonial work of double translation: centring anti-colonial thought and enacting horizontal dialogue. Facing partly obscured colonial wounds that remain difficult to countenance, a doubled repair re-approaches transformation via renewed engagements between non-Occidental demands for decolonization and ambiguous legacies of extraversion. Unpacking elisions, complicities, and precarities of Irish social science, this article teases out what ‘decolonizing social science’ might entail in a semiperipheral, white(ly) post-colony. In keeping with the scope of this journal and the defining role of sociology in the social sciences, this article focusses on sociology as a lens for discussing the broader, constitutive elisions, turns, and complicities of Irish social science. The broader aim and hope is to help unpack some of the challenges, projects, and pitfalls involved in this Special Issue's focus on ‘decolonizing academia’. Citation: Irish Journal of Sociology PubDate: 2024-03-26T06:28:39Z DOI: 10.1177/07916035241239737
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Authors:Myles Balfe Abstract: Irish Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article gives an account of some of my experiences of working in the field of Medical Sociology in Ireland. It concentrates in particular on the time period of the Great Recession and Ireland's economic crash and what it was like to be a precarious researcher and lecturer around that time. Citation: Irish Journal of Sociology PubDate: 2024-03-20T07:43:09Z DOI: 10.1177/07916035241239756
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