Synopses & Reviews
The terms patriarchy, institutional racism, sustainable development, and alienation may be familiar but this familiarity is often removed from the analytical contexts in which these ideas emerged. This book provides a series of rich reflections on the interaction between the radical ideas associated with these and other authors, and political action in Ireland. The classic texts that comprise the focal point for each chapter were selected by the contributors, many of whom straddle the boundaries of academia and activism. Each essay provides an account of the contributors personal encounters with the text, opens up the key mobilizing ideas and considers how the text has the potential to invigorate the political imagination of contemporary oppositional politics. This book will be of interest to students in the social sciences, especially sociology and Irish studies, and will appeal to those interested or involved in political activism of any variety.
Synopsis
Revisiting classic texts by writers such as Simone de Beauvoir, James Connolly and Paulo Freire, this book provides a series of rich reflections on the interaction between radical ideas and political action in Ireland.
About the Author
Fiona Dukelow and Orla ODonovan are Lecturers in the School of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork.
Table of Contents
Introduction --Orla ODonovan and Fiona Dukelow * Opening Up Thomas Paines The Rights of Man --Bernadette McAliskey * Opening Up William Thompsons Practical Education for the South of Ireland --Eileen OCarroll * Opening Up James Connollys Labour in Irish History --Fintan Lane * Opening Up Robert Tressels The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists --Rosie Meade * Opening Up Simone de Beauvoirs The Second Sex --Fiona Dukelow * Opening Up Thomas Szaszs The Myth of Mental Illness --Orla McDonnell * Opening Up Kwame Ture and Charles Hamiltons Black Power: The Politics of Liberation --Robbie McVeigh * Opening Up Paulo Freires Pedagogy of the Oppressed --Mark Garavan * Opening Up Ivan Illichs Tools for Conviviality --Orla ODonovan * Opening Up Adrienne Richs On Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence --Tina OToole* Opening Up the Brundtland Committees Our Common Future --Hilary Tovey * Concluding Remarks --Fiona Dukelow and Orla ODonovan