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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2011

        Public Private Partnerships in Ireland

        Failed experiment or the way forward?

        by Rory Hearne, Rob Kitchin

        Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) have come to public attention in recent years in Ireland with the impact of toll roads, the collapse of social-housing projects and their use in the provision of courts buildings, schools, water/waste water treatment plants, hospitals, light rail and other public infrastructure and services. This book provides a ground breaking and unique analysis of the development of such PPPs internationally, with a detailed focus on the rationale behind their introduction and outcomes in Ireland. The detailed evidence outlined from the author's extensive research (including interviews with senior central and government officials, private sector, community and trade union representatives and the Irish Minister for Environment) highlights the important role PPPs are playing in the implementation of privatisation and neoliberalism. The book also provides considerable practical lessons from individual PPP projects. It is therefore an essential read for students, academics of politics, economics, sociology, geography and policy practitioners in Ireland, and further afield. It is of considerable interest to anyone concerned with the progress of Irish society, its economy and, indeed public services and governance internationally. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2015

        Corporate and white-collar crime in Ireland

        A new architecture of regulatory enforcement

        by Joe McGrath, Rob Kitchin

        This book explores the emergence of a new architecture of corporate enforcement in Ireland. It is demonstrated that the State has transitioned from one contradictory model of corporate enforcement to another. Traditionally, the State invoked its most powerful weapon of state censure, the criminal law, but was remarkably lenient in practice because the law was not enforced. The contemporary model is much more reliant on cooperative measures and civil orders, but also contains remarkably punitive and instrumental measures to surmount the difficulties of proving guilt in criminal cases. Though corporate and financial regulation has become an area of significant interest for academics, researchers and those with an interest in corporate affairs, this sudden surge of interest lacks a tradition of scholarship or any deep empirical and contextual analysis in Ireland. This book provides that foundation. It is likely to stimulate an extensive conversation on corporate regulation and governance in Ireland. It is also likely to provide a platform for researchers further afield with an interest in comparative study with Ireland. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2016

        Asymmetric engagement

        by Joe Larragy, Rob Kitchin

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        May 2001

        Die halbierte Gerechtigkeit

        Schlüsselbegriffe des postindustriellen Sozialstaats

        by Nancy Fraser, Karin Wördemann

        Fraser zeigt auf, wie Ansprüche auf kulturelle Anerkennung mit Forderungen nach ökonomischer Umverteilung in ein umfassendes politisches Projekt integriert werden können, was die Vorbedingung für die Herstellung von Gerechtigkeit, insbesondere hinsichtlich des Geschlechterverhältnisses, darstellt.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2014

        The domestic, moral and political economies of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland

        What rough beast?

        by Kieran Keohane, Rob Kitchin, Carmen Kuhling

        This book provides an analysis of neo-liberal political economics implemented in Ireland and the deleterious consequences of that model in terms of polarised social inequalities, impoverished public services and fiscal vulnerability as they appear in central social policy domains - health, housing and education in particular. Tracing the argument into the domains where the institutions are sustained and reproduced, this book examines the movement of modern economics away from its original concern with the household and anthropologically universal deep human needs to care for the vulnerable - the sick, children and the elderly - and to maintain inter-generational solidarity. The authors argue that the financialisation of social relations undermines the foundations of civilisation and opens up a marketised barbarism. Civic catastrophes of violent conflict and authoritarian liberalism are here illustrated as aspects of the 'rough beast' that slouches in when things are falling apart and people become prey to new forms of domination. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2016

        Migrations

        by Mary Gilmartin, Rob Kitchin, Allen White

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        February 2020

        Kapitalismus

        Ein Gespräch über kritische Theorie

        by Nancy Fraser, Rahel Jaeggi, Jürgen Schröder

        Worum handelt es sich eigentlich bei dieser eigenartigen Gesellschaftsform, die wir als »Kapitalismus« bezeichnen? Nancy Fraser und Rahel Jaeggi stellen uns im so intensiven wie kontroversen Gespräch seine verschiedenen historischen Formen vor, die stets auf der Trennung von Ökonomie und Politik, Produktion und Reproduktion, menschlicher Gesellschaft und Natur beruhten. Dabei verwerfen sie althergebrachte Vorstellungen vom Wesen des Kapitalismus und wie dieser zu kritisieren sei. Stattdessen liefern sie präzise Diagnosen der gegenwärtigen Krisen und Aufstände und analysieren die Handlungsspielräume linker Politik.

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        March 2003

        Umverteilung oder Anerkennung?

        Eine politisch-philosophische Kontroverse

        by Axel Honneth, Nancy Fraser, Burkhardt Wolf

        In diesem Band wird jene heute breitgeführte Diskussion fortgesetzt, die sich im Rahmen der politischen Philosophie mit dem Begriff der Anerkennung und seinem Verhältnis zur Gerechtigkeitstheorie beschäftigt. Nancy Fraser vertritt die These, daß eine politisch-philosophische Konzentration auf die Anerkennungsbegrifflichkeit die Folge hat, die nach wie vor brisanten Umverteilungsfragen in den Hintergrund treten zu lassen; demgegenüber möchte Axel Honneth zeigen, daß sich Fragen der Verteilungsgerechtigkeit normativ besser klären lassen, wenn sie im Rahmen eines hinreichend ausdifferenzierten Anerkennungskonzeptes reformuliert werden. Die durch diese Entgegensetzung gekennzeichnete Fragestellung wirft eine Reihe von politischen, gesellschaftstheoretischen und normativen Fragen auf, die in diesem Band kontrovers behandelt werden.

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        February 2020

        Kapitalismus

        Ein Gespräch über kritische Theorie

        by Nancy Fraser, Rahel Jaeggi, Brian Milstein, Jürgen Schröder

        Worum handelt es sich eigentlich bei dieser eigenartigen Gesellschaftsform, die wir als »Kapitalismus« bezeichnen? Nancy Fraser und Rahel Jaeggi stellen uns im so intensiven wie kontroversen Gespräch seine verschiedenen historischen Formen vor, die stets auf der Trennung von Ökonomie und Politik, Produktion und Reproduktion, menschlicher Gesellschaft und Natur beruhten. Dabei verwerfen sie althergebrachte Vorstellungen vom Wesen des Kapitalismus und wie dieser zu kritisieren sei. Stattdessen liefern sie präzise Diagnosen der gegenwärtigen Krisen und Aufstände und analysieren die Handlungsspielräume linker Politik.

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        Sociology: family & relationships
        July 2016

        Changing gender roles and attitudes to family formation in Ireland

        by Series edited by Rob Kitchin, Margret Fine-Davis

        Recent decades have witnessed major changes in gender roles and family patterns, as well as a falling birth rate in Ireland and the rest of Europe. While the traditional family is now being replaced in many cases by new family forms, we do not know the reasons why people are making the choices they are and whether or not these choices are leading to greater well-being. While demographic research has attempted to explain the new trends in family formation and fertility, there has been little research on people's attitudes to family formation and having children. This book presents the results of the first major study to examine people's attitudes to family formation and childbearing in Ireland. Based on a nationwide representative sample of 1,404 men and women in the childbearing age group, the study was carried out against a backdrop of changing gender role attitudes and behaviour as well as significant demographic change.

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        August 2019

        Was stimmt nicht mit der Demokratie?

        Eine Debatte mit Klaus Dörre, Nancy Fraser, Stephan Lessenich und Hartmut Rosa

        by Klaus Dörre, Nancy Fraser, Stephan Lessenich, Hartmut Rosa, Karina Becker, Hanna Ketterer

        Angesichts der gegenwärtigen ökonomischen, ökologischen und sozialen Krisen zeichnet sich ab, dass die Wachstumsdynamik moderner Gesellschaften nicht mehr stabilisierend wirkt, sondern selbst zum Krisentreiber geworden ist. In diesem Band diskutieren die Philosophin Nancy Fraser und die Soziologen Klaus Dörre, Stephan Lessenich und Hartmut Rosa, was dies für die Gegenwart und die Zukunft der Demokratie bedeutet und welche Konzeptionen und Wege hin zu einer demokratischen Transformation vorstellbar sind. Aus ihrer demokratietheoretischen Perspektive intervenieren Viviana Asara, Banu Bargu, Ingolfur Blühdorn, Robin Celikates, Lisa Herzog, Brian Milstein, Michelle Williams und Christos Zografos.

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        August 2019

        Was stimmt nicht mit der Demokratie?

        Eine Debatte mit Klaus Dörre, Nancy Fraser, Stephan Lessenich und Hartmut Rosa

        by Klaus Dörre, Nancy Fraser, Stephan Lessenich, Hartmut Rosa, Hanna Ketterer, Karina Becker

        Angesichts der gegenwärtigen ökonomischen, ökologischen und sozialen Krisen zeichnet sich ab, dass die Wachstumsdynamik moderner Gesellschaften nicht mehr stabilisierend wirkt, sondern selbst zum Krisentreiber geworden ist. In diesem Band diskutieren die Philosophin Nancy Fraser und die Soziologen Klaus Dörre, Stephan Lessenich und Hartmut Rosa, was dies für die Gegenwart und die Zukunft der Demokratie bedeutet und welche Konzeptionen und Wege hin zu einer demokratischen Transformation vorstellbar sind. Aus ihrer demokratietheoretischen Perspektive intervenieren Viviana Asara, Banu Bargu, Ingolfur Blühdorn, Robin Celikates, Lisa Herzog, Brian Milstein, Michelle Williams und Christos Zografos.

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        British & Irish history
        July 2013

        The Cooke sisters

        Education, piety and politics in early modern England

        by Gemma Allen

        This book is a study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians. Drawing particularly on the sisters' own writings, this book demonstrates that the sisters' education extended far beyond that normally allowed for sixteenth-century women, challenging the view that women in this period were excluded from using their formal education to practical effect. It reveals that the sisters' learning provided them with opportunities to communicate effectively their own priorities through their translations, verse and letters. By reconstructing the sisters' networks, it demonstrates how they worked alongside - and sometimes against - family members over matters of politics and religion, empowered by their exceptional education. Providing new perspectives on these key issues, it will be essential reading for early modern historians and literary scholars.

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