Gerry Kearns

National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Geography, Faculty Member

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HIV, AIDS and the global imaginary

Routledge eBooks, Mar 16, 2017

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Historical geography

Progress in Human Geography, Mar 1, 1991

An accumulated wrong: Roger Casement and the anticolonial moments within imperial governance

Journal of Historical Geography, Apr 1, 2019

Taking three moments of governance -executive, legislative, judicial -this paper explains how for... more Taking three moments of governance -executive, legislative, judicial -this paper explains how forms of anticolonial critique were composed and articulated within the general regime of imperial rule. Through the career of Roger Casement, this paper shows how international human rights could develop out of the administration of empires as they monitored and compared the treatment of their own subjects in other imperial spaces. Casement drew particularly on his Irish heritage to identify the expropriation of direct producers as the basis of colonial rule. For Casement, colonialism was coeval with the destruction of native life. This was a far more systematic critique than was typical in commentary on the evils of colonialism. It finally impelled Casement into open rebellion giving him one last opportunity, from the dock as a convicted traitor, to make public an anticolonial epistemology that challenged the legitimacy of imperial sovereignty.

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Special Comment: This Common Inheritance: Green Idealism Versus Tory Pragmatism

Journal of Biogeography, Jul 1, 1991

Green idealism versus Tory pragmatism I. THE WHITE PAPER: 'THIS COMMON INHERITANCE: BRITAIN'S ENV... more Green idealism versus Tory pragmatism I. THE WHITE PAPER: 'THIS COMMON INHERITANCE: BRITAIN'S ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY' 'This Common Inheritance: Britain's Environmental Strategy' (henceforth TCI) is an important document in British politics. It is the first comprehensive inter-departmental review of Britain's environmental policies. It marks the Conservative Party's first real engagement with the agenda of the Green movement. TCI is certainly presented as a major new departure in politics: There are moments in history when apparently disparate forces or issues come together and take shape. Almost half a century ago that was true of arguments about the welfare state. In the last decade, the case for market economics has emerged, coherent and formidable, as a blueprint for prosperity and a guarantee of freedom. Today, it is the environment that captures headlines and excites public concern (TCI, p. 8). TCI explores the possibility of a more caring and less strident form of Conservatism and, although it was prepared under Mrs Thatcher's premiership, it may help define Tory ideology post-Thatcher. We need to examine the terms on which TCI engages with Green issues and explore the ways in which the other fundamental commitments of the Conservative Party shape the way it meets the environmental challenge. Owens (1986, p. 96) has written of 'fundamental differences in philosophy between conservatives and more "radical" environmentalists on allocation of resources, property rights, the role of market[s] and the value of collective as opposed to individual action' which mean that "'Greening the Tories" is in this sense a contradiction in terms.' If Owens is right, then, we ought to be able to show how these contradictions appear in TCI. An examination of the 'structures of negotiation' in proposals for managing the environment is perhaps one area where human geographers in particular may make a contribution to the discussion of green issues within the subject . Simmons (1989, pp. 391-396), for example, has set out some very stimulating speculations about the way society might respond to environmental problems, but these need to be taken further through a consideration of the political context in which they may be pursued. On the other hand, Johnson's (1989) essentialist account of both capitalism and nature and their inherent opposition appears to preclude any examination of specific proposals short of global socialist revolution. It is perhaps more constructive to work from more widely-shared political goals and to document how theirpursuit necessarily entails more radical policies if they are to be realized (see . In this spirit, we might consider the commitments, contradictions and limitations of the British Government's new environmental strategy. We can look at moral, economic and political aspects of TCI.

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Crystal Biruk Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 296 p. $26.95 (pbk.)

Population and Development Review, 2018

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Between security and reparations: Ireland and the European refugee crisis

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, 2020

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Historical geography

Progress in Human Geography, Mar 1, 1988

This year’s review must start with the book which is ’a response to the need for a text which rev... more This year’s review must start with the book which is ’a response to the need for a text which reviews the current state of the subject and which provides a reference point for future developments in historical geography’: Historical geography: progress and prospect (Pacione, 1987). ’Historical geography, you stand accused of making little progress and having no prospects. How do you plead’? Crumbs. Help. What sort of figure does our advocate cut? Dishevelled, opening with a blustery and pompous preface, moving on to a summary introduction before we get to the material evidence of the case; a theoretical review, a sources survey,

Demography and industrialisation: a geographical overview

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Demography and industrialisation: a geographic overview

Engaging Geography

Irish Geography, 2006

Historical geography

Progress in Human Geography, Jun 1, 1989

This year&amp;amp;amp;amp;#x27;s review must start with the book which is&amp;amp;amp;amp... more This year&amp;amp;amp;amp;#x27;s review must start with the book which is&amp;amp;amp;amp;#x27;a response to the need for a text which reviews the current state of the subject and which provides a reference point for future developments in historical geography&amp;amp;amp;amp;#x27;: Historical geography: progress and prospect (Pacione, 1987).&amp;amp;amp;amp;#x27;Historical geography, you stand accused of making little progress and having no prospects. How do you plead&amp;amp;amp;amp;#x27;? Crumbs. Help. What sort of figure does our advocate cut? Dishevelled, opening with a blustery and pompous preface, moving on to a ...

Closed space and political practice: Halford Mackinder and Frederick Jackson Turner

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Earth Writings: Bogs, Forests, Fields and Gardens

MU Department of Geography, Cassagh Press, Nov 1, 2020

The task is to make kin in lines of inventive connection as a practice of learning to live and di... more The task is to make kin in lines of inventive connection as a practice of learning to live and die well with each other in a thick present. Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places.-Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita 1 You Cannot Climb a Hedge. Production still, variable dimensions. © Pauline O'Connell, 2018. 'transformation of Rathangan's people and environs, its boglands, streetscapes and waterways' together with former peat workers, Bord na Móna representatives, ecologists, school children, educators, historians, librarians and other community members, to rediscover and heal the formerly mined peatlands of the Bog of Allen in Kildare County. 7 Cathy Fitzgerald's eco-social practices include transforming a monoculture forest into becoming a mixedspecies continuous cover, permanent forest. Hollywood Forest of County Carlow is a success story of 'Earthly wellbeing' that included contributions from Pro Silva foresters, ecologists, timber experts, community members, and other supporters. Building upon her doctoral research and ongoing activist blogging work, she also has developed Haumea Online, an ecoliteracy educational platform for creatives and arts professionals to support others 'co-create regenerative cultures' for the ecological emergency. 8 Pauline O'Connell, living off the official electoral map in County Kilkenny, instigates projects with unknown outcomes and possibilities-tug-of war play-offs, an excavated 'milk and tea-well', a hedge-climbing challenge-to co-create 'community fields' with others. By 'gathering stories' from farmers, neighbours, artists and other local experts, her explorations of the physical and ephemeral, human and natural in the material world question what is taken for granted in local identities, cultural practices and borders to reimagine and generate new possibilities. 9 Seoidín O'Sullivan's art projects brings people together 'to protect or develop an aspect of their local commons'. 10 Collaborating with cultural and arts community groups, she facilitates community gardening projects, pedagogical exchanges, field schools, ecological walks, green mappings, and the grafting and planting of heritage trees that create shared and sustainable multispecies places in the capital city of Dublin. To live well with others, these artists 'think and create in action words' 11 in their distinctive home environments: Monica plots, Cathy (re)forests, Pauline enacts, and Seoidín grafts. As hybrid, place-based artists, they also work as educators, researchers, writers, and, more often than not, as good neighbours. Their creative practices call attention to the diversity of ways that human societies are mutually constituted 'within dynamic eco-natural processes'. 12 By carefully navigating the various strands of their embedded practices and allowing their work to slowly unfold into more healthy relations, they 'settle troubled waters' 13 by encouraging humans to tread more lightly when mingling with others in their local environments. Inviting neighbours and diverse publics to consider the possibilities of living well within their communities and caring for our mother earth may seem a straightforward task. But 'staying with the trouble' means also to 'make trouble' 14 : their work is political and not easy, as it means rejecting dominant growth-based strategies of neoliberalism and even forms of sustainable development.

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Leading Change: Reproductive Rights, Empowerment and Feminist Solidarity in the Dublin Bay North Repeal the 8th Campaign

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2022

It's women who are leading this, who are driving this, which in itself is fantastic. Women whose ... more

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How has my home area changed over time? Exploring a key geographical concept using on-line resources and fieldwork

This paper explore these of Census and maps to explore the development of an area over time. This... more This paper explore these of Census and maps to explore the development of an area over time. This allows students to develop understanding of the key concept of change over time within a familiar environment. The recent availability of the detailed information of the 1911 Census and the provision of small area day in the 2011 Census has facilitated this use, along with access to large-scale historic maps, via Scoilnet maps. ICT skills are developed in the desk-based aspects of the work along with fieldwork skills during the visits to the actual locations studied.

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Disaster capitalism in historical perspective

Naomi Klein believes there has been a recent and wholly understudied shift in the practices of co... more Naomi Klein believes there has been a recent and wholly understudied shift in the practices of corporate capitalism. Far from considering disasters a travesty, corporate capitalists now freely embrace catastrophic situations – military coups, pre-emptive wars, climatic hazards, etc. – as opportunities to engage in radical socioeconomic and political restructuring. As an ideology, ‘disaster capitalism’ is strongly tied to broader structural developments, including militarism (as a first rather than last resort), deregulation and privatisation, the promotion of a security state, and the expansion of market fundamentalism. Disaster capitalism is, therefore, structurally linked to the demotion of democracy and the consolidation of power in the hands of a kleptocracy usually referred to as the ‘Washington Consensus’.

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Campaigning for choice: canvassing as feminist pedagogy in Dublin Bay North

After Repeal, 2020

from the Irish constitution. In this chapter, we draw upon a survey of June 2018 conducted by and... more from the Irish constitution. In this chapter, we draw upon a survey of June 2018 conducted by and of 125 activists from DBN Repeal to describe how this vote was won and the particular place of the canvass in the campaign. 2 After providing an overview of our constituency, group, and campaign, we argue that our approach to canvassing may properly be understood as a form of feminist activist pedagogy. Dublin Bay North Dublin Bay North (DBN) is the capital's largest constituency, with an electorate of 108,209 at the time of the referendum (Elections Ireland, 2018). It had the largest voter turnout in Dublin-71.6% compared to the Dublin average of 65.7% and a national average of 64.1%-and with its margin for Repeal of 38,181 votes, it contributed the largest net 'Yes' vote to the national total of any constituency. 3 These are striking statistics when considering that DBN is a rather mixed constituency, and in terms of class rather close to the Dublin average. 4 On the one hand, DBN has a noticeably higher proportion of households living in houses or bungalows (82.2%) than the Dublin average (73.1%), which range from the grand villas on Griffith Avenue at the northwest abutting the early planned suburb of Marino, extending to the stately terraces of Clontarf in the south, which march eastwards towards the architectural jewels of Howth. Between and around these are bedsits and apartments in Kilmore, modest cottages in Raheny, and areas of social housing in Darndale, Edenmore and Kilbarrack, the latter of which, when taken together, are slightly below the city average for local authority housing (7.2% compared to 9.3% in Dublin). Unemployment is below the city average (5.9%; Dublin 6.5%; RoI: 7.1%) and health is only a little below the average with 89.1% being reported as in good or very good

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Duncan and the cholera test: public health in mid-nineteenth-century Liverpool

Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1993

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The Catholic Footprint in Victorian Dublin

Journal of Victorian Culture

Religions make their mark in cities already bearing the legacies of earlier spiritual encodings, ... more Religions make their mark in cities already bearing the legacies of earlier spiritual encodings, decodings and re-codings. We might describe these marks as a sort of footprint. The Catholic footprint, then, would, in the manner of the urban figure-ground relation, include the churches, schools, hospitals or other edifices that comprise the mission of the Catholic Church. 1 It would extend to various street-and place-names that, for many people, have Catholic associations. Less tangible but still evident, the Catholic footprint in a city might include land owned by the Church, and the control that this allows over urban development. All senses might register the Catholic footprint. Candles and incense are most intense within the walls of a church, but even they are occasionally carried in procession into city streets. Bells call the faithful to mass or, as with the Angelus, to other religious observance. The footprint extends to the realm of memory and cities are replete with religious relics, from graveyards to sites where once stood religious institutions, or where in time past sacred matters transpired. Some of these sites are invested with commemorative practice and in this way become places of public memory. 2 Others are more covert, haunted by histories of state-perpetrated violence or under the erasure of active state suppression, they serve as a spectral trace of injury and elision. 3 In many cities, faith-based communities are not hegemonic and in claiming a space must contend with competition both from a range of secular functions, and from communities expressing a different or even no faith. 4 Hervieu-Léger describes the legal and political settings in which religious expression must be negotiated as framing the 'territorial modalities of the communalization of religions', and how in turn this shapes the 'religious symbolizations of space'. 5 The Catholic footprint in Ireland's cities is an expression of just such a contentious history. As in many parts of northern Europe, the Reformation devalued Catholic institutions in Ireland and claimed their property for other purposes, some religious some not. However, the principle of cuius regio, eius religio was only ever an aspiration in Ireland and unlike in the rest of Europe the religion of the vast majority of the people did not follow that of their nominal ruler. In these circumstances, the spectres of Catholic hegemony were more insistent in Ireland than in most nominally Protestant countries.

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Historical Geographies of Ireland: Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Legacies

An independent Irish state will soon attain its centenary and its birth pangs of rebellion, war, ... more An independent Irish state will soon attain its centenary and its birth pangs of rebellion, war, and civil strife are being commemorated as a decade of anniversaries.1 Themes of memory and commemoration have been a particular interest of cultural and historical geographers working on Ireland.2 Brian Graham and his colleagues, for example, have produced a rich set of studies on the multiple and contested politics of memory, particularly in Northern Ireland.3 Given such geographical scholarship on the contestability of memory and history in Ireland, we can anticipate that geographers will engage as public intellectuals during this current period of taking our bearings from our past. At such times of reflection upon identity and legacy, there will always be a tension between exceptionalism and generalization. Each vibrates with political resonance, each risks false explanation, and yet each is necessary for critical and effective historical geographies.4 In introducing this set of hist...

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HIV, AIDS and the global imaginary

Routledge eBooks, Mar 16, 2017

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Historical geography

Progress in Human Geography, Mar 1, 1991

An accumulated wrong: Roger Casement and the anticolonial moments within imperial governance

Journal of Historical Geography, Apr 1, 2019

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Special Comment: This Common Inheritance: Green Idealism Versus Tory Pragmatism

Journal of Biogeography, Jul 1, 1991

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Crystal Biruk Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 296 p. $26.95 (pbk.)

Population and Development Review, 2018

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Between security and reparations: Ireland and the European refugee crisis

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, 2020

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Historical geography

Progress in Human Geography, Mar 1, 1988

Demography and industrialisation: a geographical overview

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Demography and industrialisation: a geographic overview

Engaging Geography

Irish Geography, 2006

Historical geography

Progress in Human Geography, Jun 1, 1989

Closed space and political practice: Halford Mackinder and Frederick Jackson Turner

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Earth Writings: Bogs, Forests, Fields and Gardens

MU Department of Geography, Cassagh Press, Nov 1, 2020

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Leading Change: Reproductive Rights, Empowerment and Feminist Solidarity in the Dublin Bay North Repeal the 8th Campaign

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2022

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How has my home area changed over time? Exploring a key geographical concept using on-line resources and fieldwork

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Disaster capitalism in historical perspective

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Campaigning for choice: canvassing as feminist pedagogy in Dublin Bay North

After Repeal, 2020

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Duncan and the cholera test: public health in mid-nineteenth-century Liverpool

Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1993

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The Catholic Footprint in Victorian Dublin

Journal of Victorian Culture

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Historical Geographies of Ireland: Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Legacies

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Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis

by Gerry Kearns, David Meredith, and John Morrissey

Royal Irish Academy, 2014

Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis focuses on the key political, economic and social geographie... more Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis focuses on the key political, economic and social geographies defining contemporary Ireland arising from the financial crisis. The concept of ‘spatial justice’ provides a cogent entry point into debates around austerity and social justice, and this volume offers a nuanced and geographically specific critique of everyday concerns of citizens, planners and government officials alike. Each chapter offers a detailed examination of core aspects of the crisis and its management, including issues of housing, planning and the environment, health, education, migration and unemployment, with analyses extending beyond the academy to questions of policy, governmentality, public participation and active citizenship. The volume features key contributions from prominent geographers across Ireland, north and south, along with leading geographers from the UK and North America. Contributors include: Danny Dorling, John Agnew, Rory Hearne, Rob Kitchin, Cian O’Callaghan, Marie Mahon, Anna R. Davies, David Meredith, Jon Paul Faulkner, Des McCafferty, Eileen Humphreys, Ronan Foley, Adrian Kavanagh, Mary Gilmartin, Gerry Kearns and an interview between David Harvey and John Morrissey.

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