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MOBILISING CLASSICS

MOBILISING CLASSICS

Reading radical writing in Ireland

Edited by

Fiona Dukelow and Orla ODonovan

Copyright Manchester University Press 2010

While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher.

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Notes on contributors

Fiona Dukelow is a lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork. Her research and teaching interests include Irish social welfare policy, the impact of globalisation on the Irish welfare state, and social theory and social policy. Her publications include Irish Social Policy A Critical Introduction (2009), which she co-authored with Mairad Considine.

Mark Garavan lectures in sociology in the Galway and Mayo Institute of Technology. He is primarily concerned with nursing degree programmes, but also teaches youth work and social care. He is actively involved in environmental justice politics. He has acted as spokesperson for the Rossport Five and for the Shell to Sea campaign. He has written widely on the issue of the Corrib gas project and also on wider issues of sustainability and democracy. In 2006, he published The Rossport Five Our Story.

Fintan Lane is a historian and left-wing activist. He is the author of a number of books including a study of Irish socialism entitled The Origins of Modern Irish Socialism, 18811896 (1997). He is the editor of Saothar, the journal of the Irish Labour History Society. In recent years he as been actively involved in the Irish Anti-War Movement.

Bernadette McAliskey, an active civil and human rights campaigner since 1968, describes herself as a socialist republican, feminist, and free thinker. She currently manages STEP, a local community development organisation in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone. She also teaches part-time on the Community Development Degree course at the University of Ulster and on the Womens Studies programme at the North West Regional College.

Orla McDonell is a lecturer in sociology in the University of Limerick. Her teaching and research interests include health, medicine and science, bioethics, and the sociology of the body. Her publications include Sociology for Health Professionals in Ireland (2004), which she co-authored with Abbey Hyde and Maria Lohan.

Robbie McVeigh is a researcher and activist. He has taught on racism and anti-racism at Queens University Belfast, the University of Ulster and University College Dublin. He has researched racism and sectarianism in Irish society and is the author of The Racialisation of Irishness: Racism and Anti-Racism in Irish Society (1996), Theorizing Sedentarism: The Roots of Anti-Nomadism (1997) and Travellers, Refugees and Racism in Tallaght (1998). With Ronit Lentin he is the co-author of After Optimism? Ireland, Racism and Globalisation (2006).

Rosie Meade is a lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork. Her research and activist interests include alternative media, social movements, the state, grassroots globalisation, community development, corporatism, adult and community education and community arts. She has edited a special issue of the Community Development Journal on community arts. Other recent publications include a critical analysis of media constructions of anti-globalisation activists and a critique of community development professionalism.

Eileen OCarroll teaches with the Waterford City and County Vocational Education Committees and has recently been awarded a M.Ed. on William Thompson and the Radical Tradition in Education. She was one of the co-founders of the William Thompson Weekend School, established in Cork in 1999 to facilitate radical critique and create space for dialogue, discussion and joint action among progressive forces in Irish society.

Orla ODonovan is a lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies in University College Cork. Her teaching, research and activist interests centre on the politics of health and medicine and on struggles to democratise the production and use of science and technology for public purposes. Recent publications have focused on interactions between pharmaceutical companies and patients organisations, conflicts of interest in pharmaceutical regulation, and patients organisations involvement in knowledge production. She co-edited Power, Politics and Pharmaceuticals: Irish Medicines Regulation in a Global Context (2008).

Tina OToole is a lecturer in the School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication in the University of Limerick. Her research interests include Irish and British literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, specifically the literature and cultural and social activism of Victorian and Edwardian writers. A long-standing activist herself, she has focused many of her publications on womens activism, including Documenting Irish Feminisms (2005), co-authored with Linda Connolly.

Hilary Tovey lectures in sociology in Trinity College Dublin. Her interests include environmental knowledges and conflicts, food and society, social movements, the politics of the rural and rural development, social theory, and the sociology of animals. She is an ex-president of the European Society for Rural Sociology, a council member of the International Rural Sociological Association, and a board member of the European Sociological Association Research Committee on Environment and Society. In 20046 she coordinated an EU Framework 6 twelve-country research project CORASON a Cognitive Approach to Rural Sustainable Development. Amongst her recent publications is

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