Wednesday 26 February 2014
The politics of struggle in higher education
This article by Mark Cresswell, Zulfia Karimova and Tom Brock, "Pedagogy of the privileged: elite universities and dialectical contradictions in the UK", says some interesting things which may be relevant for Irish universities too.
Tuesday 25 February 2014
Interesting book launch
Not quite our usual fare, but definitely interesting: this book contrasts Irish primary school teachers with German mainstream school teachers and those in the well-established anarchist free school movement. Quite a read!
Book Launch
Robert Hamm
Negotiating Legitimacy - Rituals and Reflection in Schools
Thursday, 6th of March
5.30 p.m.
at
IT Sligo - Library - Social Zone
This is to inform you about the upcoming launch of my book on 'Rituals and Reflection in Schools'. I would be delighted to welcome you to the launch on Thursday, 6th of March, 5.30 at the library in the IT Sligo. The launch will be a very informal event.
The book has been published on the basis of my research project on reflection processes of primary school teachers. The research was carried out between 2011 and 2013 and there has been an abundance of material collected during the project. In the book I have condensed certain elements of the research:
- a comprehensive overview on theory of rituals in school,
- the suggestion to ask questions not of rituals, but of the actors in rituals,
- the importance to understand reflection as a social act and negotiation of legitimacy of defining, articulating and shaping reality,
- the problem of critically reflecting on ritual practices in institutional contexts,
- the need for critical questions as a route to consciously enacting alternatives.
There is also a webpage set up where you can find further information on the book and the research:
www.schoolandritual.com
Book Launch
Robert Hamm
Negotiating Legitimacy - Rituals and Reflection in Schools
Thursday, 6th of March
5.30 p.m.
at
IT Sligo - Library - Social Zone
This is to inform you about the upcoming launch of my book on 'Rituals and Reflection in Schools'. I would be delighted to welcome you to the launch on Thursday, 6th of March, 5.30 at the library in the IT Sligo. The launch will be a very informal event.
The book has been published on the basis of my research project on reflection processes of primary school teachers. The research was carried out between 2011 and 2013 and there has been an abundance of material collected during the project. In the book I have condensed certain elements of the research:
- a comprehensive overview on theory of rituals in school,
- the suggestion to ask questions not of rituals, but of the actors in rituals,
- the importance to understand reflection as a social act and negotiation of legitimacy of defining, articulating and shaping reality,
- the problem of critically reflecting on ritual practices in institutional contexts,
- the need for critical questions as a route to consciously enacting alternatives.
There is also a webpage set up where you can find further information on the book and the research:
www.schoolandritual.com
Left and right in Latin America
Seminar: Characterising Left and Right in
Contemporary Latin America
Date: 26th February 3:30 - 5pm
Venue: B-07 Manor Mills
Speakers:
Dr. Christopher Wylde, Richmond, The American University in London
Dr. Barry Cannon, Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth.
Chair:
Prof. Peadar Kirby, Emeritus Professor, University of Limerick and Adjunct Professor, NUI Maynooth.
All Welcome.
Date: 26th February 3:30 - 5pm
Venue: B-07 Manor Mills
Speakers:
Dr. Christopher Wylde, Richmond, The American University in London
Dr. Barry Cannon, Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth.
Prof. Peadar Kirby, Emeritus Professor, University of Limerick and Adjunct Professor, NUI Maynooth.
All Welcome.
Conference CFP
Call for conference presentations: Local Resistance, Global Crisis: developing communities of solidarity and Left Politics for the 21st Century
Friday June 13th and Saturday 14th 2014, Renehan Hall, South Campus, National University of Maynooth
Keynote Speakers will include:
David Featherstone, Department of Geography, Glasgow. Author of Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism (2012) and, Resistance, Space and Political Identities: the Making of Counter-Global Networks (2008).
Costis Hadjimichalis, Department of Geography, Harokopio University, Athens. His research and publications have included uneven geographical development, socio-spatial justice and solidarity.
Conference themes
The global financial crisis and austerity has been met with significant protest and opposition from new social movements, radical Left political parties and single issue campaigns. However, the response has been uneven and divided across and within different countries and there remain many challenges in relation to developing strategies, alternatives and politics that can progress this opposition.
This is a conference aimed at academics, community activists, trade unions, political activists, and NGOs, who are engaged in such campaigns and movements, for example in housing, austerity, unemployment, precariousness, regeneration, community campaigns, debt, natural resources, migrants’ rights, amongst others. The conference will provide a space to promote solidarity amongst diverse agendas, groups, organisations and politics to facilitate greater alliances and cooperation amongst those engaged in campaigns and politics to promote social and spatial justice, radical equality, democracy, and human rights. We welcome papers and presentations from practice or theoretical reflections fitting the themes including, but not limited to:
Register your interest email: rory.hearne@nuim.ie
We are working to keep registration costs as low as possible at this stage
Supported by:
The Department of Geography NUIM , NIRSA, Network on Politics, Power and Society NUIM
Dr. Rory Hearne
Friday June 13th and Saturday 14th 2014, Renehan Hall, South Campus, National University of Maynooth
Keynote Speakers will include:
David Featherstone, Department of Geography, Glasgow. Author of Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism (2012) and, Resistance, Space and Political Identities: the Making of Counter-Global Networks (2008).
Costis Hadjimichalis, Department of Geography, Harokopio University, Athens. His research and publications have included uneven geographical development, socio-spatial justice and solidarity.
Conference themes
The global financial crisis and austerity has been met with significant protest and opposition from new social movements, radical Left political parties and single issue campaigns. However, the response has been uneven and divided across and within different countries and there remain many challenges in relation to developing strategies, alternatives and politics that can progress this opposition.
This is a conference aimed at academics, community activists, trade unions, political activists, and NGOs, who are engaged in such campaigns and movements, for example in housing, austerity, unemployment, precariousness, regeneration, community campaigns, debt, natural resources, migrants’ rights, amongst others. The conference will provide a space to promote solidarity amongst diverse agendas, groups, organisations and politics to facilitate greater alliances and cooperation amongst those engaged in campaigns and politics to promote social and spatial justice, radical equality, democracy, and human rights. We welcome papers and presentations from practice or theoretical reflections fitting the themes including, but not limited to:
- Spaces of solidarity
- How can we progress solidarity, alliances and cooperation between us to support and enhance our individual campaigns and movements?
- How can we progress solidarity, alliances and cooperation between us to influence the national, European and global policy and politics?
- The right to the city: local struggles, global solidarities seeking social and spatial justice
- New Left Political Parties: what potential for a socialism for the 21st Century?
- What role can new Left and radical Left political parties play in progressing a radical egalitarian, socialist politics?
- Social Movements & civil society: Where is the Irish resistance?
- Partnership with the state as a strategy to achieve social justice; Can such strategies be pursued without silencing or excluding more critical voices and disruptive protests?
- Reflections and contributions from critical urban and social theory on resistance and solidarity
- Lessons from communities and social movements engaging in campaigns and struggles in relation to community activism, housing, debt, natural resources, workers rights, migrants rights, at a local, national and global scale
- Facilitated open discussion: possibilities and strategies for solidarity, community resistance and Left politics
Register your interest email: rory.hearne@nuim.ie
We are working to keep registration costs as low as possible at this stage
Supported by:
The Department of Geography NUIM , NIRSA, Network on Politics, Power and Society NUIM
Dr. Rory Hearne
Wednesday 19 February 2014
Dublin Anarchist Bookfair advance notice
Saturday April 12th, Liberty Hall, Dublin. All further details TBA but has been one of the highlights of the year for many years now. Just saying...
Sunday 16 February 2014
Government funding and social justice advocacy
The Advocacy Initiative have published a fascinating report on the state's interaction with voluntary and community groups who are both in receipt of state funding and engaging in policy advocacy. The full report, plus overheads, can be found here.
Wednesday 12 February 2014
Meeting on the politics of climate change in Bolivia
Next Thursday, Feb 20 at 6.30 pm there's a public meeting in the Central Hotel in Exchequer Street, "From the rockface".
Friends of the Earth Board member, Sian Cowman, who spent 6 months in Bolivia last year, will address some of the key issues surrounding climate change in Bolivia, especially the responses of indigenous Andean communities to the climate impacts they face. The event seeks to open a dialogue into how voices of those most affected by climate change can be included in the global conversation seeking solutions to the climate crisis. Friends of the Earth are co-hosting the event with the Latin America Solidarity Centre (LASC), Comhlamh, and The Democracy Center.
"You can get a flavour of Sian's work in Bolivia in this short video, Seeds of Resilience, and this blog she wrote for the Ecologist magazine."
Friends of the Earth Board member, Sian Cowman, who spent 6 months in Bolivia last year, will address some of the key issues surrounding climate change in Bolivia, especially the responses of indigenous Andean communities to the climate impacts they face. The event seeks to open a dialogue into how voices of those most affected by climate change can be included in the global conversation seeking solutions to the climate crisis. Friends of the Earth are co-hosting the event with the Latin America Solidarity Centre (LASC), Comhlamh, and The Democracy Center.
"You can get a flavour of Sian's work in Bolivia in this short video, Seeds of Resilience, and this blog she wrote for the Ecologist magazine."
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