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Cultural Gateways: The Role of Museums in Cross-Border Relations
Get PDFThis paper looks at the context of cross-border working on the island of Ireland through the lens of its museums. The policy frameworks and breadth of activity are discussed in addition to the challenges posed by Brexit – specifically for partnerships and networks. The author highlights the opportunity that exists for the NI sector to approach Brexit from a position of authority, providing knowledge and expertise from which the regions can draw, taking the role of museums in supporting intercultural dialogue and inclusion from objectivity to activism
The Meaning and Importance of Working Cross-Border: A Local Authority Perspective
Get PDFThis paper discusses the meaning and origins of cross-border working, particularly the importance of this work and the relationships which are formed in resourcing and nurturing the arts. It includes the views of artists, senior council officials and community leaders which adds greatly to understanding the practicalities, challenges and potentialities of working in a local context for ensuring a sustainable approach to arts development
Irish Attitudes to Muslim Immigrants
Get PDFThis paper uses data from the 2014 Special Module of the European Social Survey on attitudes to immigration to investigate attitudes towards Muslim and White immigrants in Ireland. Drawing on theories of social identity, ethnic threat and social distance, the paper develops hypotheses about which factors influence attitudes to Muslim immigrants, and how and why they might differ from attitudes to White immigrants. Comparing these attitudes, we find evidence of an “ethnic hierarchy” in Ireland, with more positive attitudes to White than to Muslim immigrants. We also find that age and religious practice are associated with attitudes towards Muslim immigrants, but have only weak effects on attitudes towards White immigrants. The analysis reveals that an international terrorist attack had a negative effect on attitudes to Muslim immigrants but not on attitudes to White immigrants
Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Edition of The Economic and Social Review
Get PDFThe first edition of The Economic and Social Review was published fifty years ago in October 1969. We are happy to mark the anniversary of the journal with this special edition to reflect both its history and ongoing vibrancy in contributionsto academic research and policy debate. The edition contains a mix of papers with some looking back on the contributions published over the years in a subset of the many fields that have appeared and others examining some current issues of debate within the social sciences. Ireland has gone through profound economic and social change over the past fifty years and the papers in this edition show how the Review has documented and analysed many aspects of it
South-North Trade in Ireland: Gravity and Firms from the Good Friday Agreement to Brexit
Get PDFThis paper revisits the work of Fitzsimons et al. (1999) on the level of trade between Ireland and Northern Ireland. In doing so, we reflect on the recent move to prominence of this issue since the referendum decision of the UK to leave the EU and also on the shift within the economics literature to looking at trade issues from a micro rather than a macro perspective as data availability has grown. Our country-level results show the same pattern of limited statistical significance for a border effect as was found in the earlier work still holds, but when using firm-level data we find a positive and significant border effect. This effect holds for total trade at firm and product level with the primary determinant coming from the intensive margin, both in terms of average exports per firm and average exports per product within firms
Nietzsche and Transhumanism:: is Artificial Enhancement a Nietzschean Option?
Get PDFThis paper will look at what Nietzsche’s metamorphoses of the spirit can tell us about being human in light of artificial enhancement. It will argue that advancements in science including but not limited to: designer babies, immortality movements such as cryonics, and artificial intelligence, are veiled attempts to modify the human condition. Such attempts to modify the human condition can be viewed through the last metamorphose Nietzsche speaks of in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The metamorphose of the child who for Nietzsche is a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a holy yea is the driving force behind advances in artificial enhancement. This paper will argue that this is so by drawing parallels between the language of actors behind the artificial enhancement movement, and Nietzsche’s thought behind what the metamorphose of the child would mean for the human condition. The paper will argue that Nietzsche’s metamorphose of the child is a positive vision of the potential of human endeavours. The paper will conclude that artificial enhancement can be viewed through this metamorphose of spirit, insofar as its enhancements are taken to be advancements for humans; enhancement should enhance the human condition as opposed to overcoming the human condition
Policy Review: Creative Ireland
Get PDFA reflective and critical review of Creative Ireland Programme/Clár Éire Ildánach 2017- 2022, analysed alongside the Creative Ireland Programme 2017 End of Year Report
2018 might seem a bit too late to review Creative Ireland Programme/Clár Éire Ildánach 2017- 2022, given that the ambitious strategy, was first announced in December 2016 and has thus already been in place for over a year, at the time of writing this review. (1) However, reviewing the strategy now provides a unique opportunity to reflect not only on the policy document itself, but also on its early-stage implementation, and the ways in which its first year has been reported and evaluated by those tasked with its success. In this review, I focus on the original strategy document (Creative Ireland), critiqued and analysed in conversation with the 2017 evaluation report (The Creative Ireland Programme/Clár Éire Ildánach End of Year Report 2017; hereafter ‘EYR 2017’ in citations, to differentiate the annual report from the key strategy document
New Voices: Gender-proofing cultural institutions: a case study on Project Arts Centre
Get PDFExamining the gendered conditions of cultural production, this case study of the Project Arts Centre proposes solutions to gender inequalities through the mobilisation of cultural institutions as Feminist spaces.
Drawing from a long line of feminist scholarship, this paper examined gender relations at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, identifying the gendered conditions under which cultural workers (both male and female) participate in contemporary cultural work. In the course of mapping gender relations at Project, an occupational gender division of labour was seen to still persist within the organization. It was also found that despite the existence of a hierarchy with a concentration of power at the top of the organisation, power relations at Project are largely perceived to be de-gendered and concealed by the ‘gender-neutral’ organisational ideology and culture of the workplace.The study proposes the deployment of feminist theory as an organisational resource for cultural organisations. It is suggested that a feminist approach to institutionalising gender equality, effectively mobilising the Project Arts Centre as a Feminist space through its artistic programme, is likely to provide the best solution to the gender inequalities identifie
Reflections on the Context and Logistics of CrossBorder Partnerships
Get PDFThis paper is reproduction of thoughts shared by Anthony Soares, Acting Director of the Centre for Cross Border Studies at an event exploring crossborder cultural policy in practice, held in November 2018. It describes the discrepancy between the political context within which cross-border working operates and the practicalities of cross-border cooperation and the partnerships this entails on the island of Ireland. It describes the institutional spaces which have promoted increased and improved cooperation and crossborder working in recent years and queries how cross-border working may be taken forward and who funds it in a changing socio-political context, particularly in light of Brexit. A post-script reflecting on the piece at the time of this publication is provided by Jordana Corrigan
Partnership Dissolution after Childbirth in Ireland: On the Importance of Pregnancy Intentions
Get PDFSeveral approaches frame childbirth as an event that can reduce partnership quality, generate work-family conflicts, intensify financial pressures, and increase separation risk. The present study discusses theories of separation in relation to pregnancy intentions leading to a birth and analyses data from Growing Up in Ireland. Transition rate models of parental separation nine months to five years after childbirth show higher risks of separation after pregnancies described as “somewhat too early”, “much too early” and after “unwanted” pregnancies. These differences are due partly to sociodemographic factors that influence unplanned pregnancies and subsequent separation. Increases in workfamily conflicts after birth do not increase separation risk