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      • Christine Heimannsberg

        Gelobtes Land, die dystopische Climate Fiction Trilogie: Mit CO2 verbindet man den Klimawandel, schmelzende Gletscher und Überflutungen. Mittlerweile ist der Klimawandel auch in der Literatur angekommen. „Climate Fiction“ oder „Cli-fi“ lautet das Stichwort, das zuletzt verstärkt in den Feuilletons auftauchte. Die deutsche Autorin Christine Heimannsberg präsentiert mit ihrer Debüt-Trilogie „Gelobtes Land“ eine ungewöhnliche, spannende Dystopie, die ökologische wie humanistische Themen geschickt im neuen Genre zusammenführt.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        February 2022

        Chris Abani

        by Annalisa Oboe, Elisa Bordin, John Thieme

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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
        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
        May 2016

        Asymmetric engagement

        by Joe Larragy, Rob Kitchin

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        The Arts
        June 2021

        Chris Marker

        by Sarah Cooper

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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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        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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        June 2023

        Onkel Montagues Schauergeschichten 1

        by Chris Priestley, David Roberts, Beatrice Howeg

        "In Onkel Montagues Schauergeschichten 1" von Chris Priestley begibt sich der Leser zusammen mit dem jungen Edgar auf eine unheimliche Reise in die Welt der Gruselgeschichten. Onkel Montague, ein mysteriöser alter Mann mit einer Vorliebe für das Makabere, lebt zurückgezogen in einem alten Haus, umgeben von einem Garten, der eher einem Friedhof gleicht. Jedes Mal, wenn Edgar seinen Onkel besucht, erzählt dieser ihm eine Reihe von schaurigen Geschichten, die nicht nur fesselnd, sondern auch beängstigend sind. Diese Geschichten sind eng verbunden mit den merkwürdigen Gegenständen, die im ganzen Haus verteilt sind und scheinbar eine eigene düstere Vergangenheit haben. Während Edgar von den Erzählungen seines Onkels in den Bann gezogen wird, beginnt er sich zu fragen, wie viel Wahrheit in den Gruselgeschichten steckt und welche Geheimnisse sein Onkel wirklich verbirgt. Die Sammlung von Schauergeschichten, die von Geistern, Dämonen und unerklärlichen Phänomenen handeln, führt den Leser durch eine Welt voller Dunkelheit und Mysterien. Mit jeder Geschichte, die Onkel Montague erzählt, wird die Grenze zwischen Realität und Fiktion immer verschwommener. Edgar muss erkennen, dass die Welt um ihn herum viel mehr Geheimnisse birgt, als er je für möglich gehalten hätte. "Onkel Montagues Schauergeschichten 1" ist nicht nur eine Hommage an die klassische Gruselliteratur, sondern auch eine tiefgründige Erkundung der menschlichen Faszination für das Übernatürliche und Unbekannte. Chris Priestley gelingt es meisterhaft, eine Atmosphäre zu schaffen, die den Leser von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite in Atem hält. Fesselnde Gruselgeschichten: Eine Sammlung von schaurigen Erzählungen, die Fans von klassischen und modernen Gruselgeschichten begeistern wird. Atmosphärische Erzählkunst: Chris Priestley meistert es, eine unheimliche Atmosphäre zu schaffen, die den Leser in ihren Bann zieht. Geheimnisvolle Charaktere: Die mysteriösen Figuren, allen voran Onkel Montague selbst, fügen der Geschichte eine tiefe und spannende Ebene hinzu. Für junge und ältere Leser: Obwohl als Jugendbuch konzipiert, bieten die Geschichten auch erwachsenen Lesern gruseligen Lesespaß. Lehrreich: Neben Unterhaltung bieten die Geschichten auch Einblicke in menschliche Ängste und die Kraft der Erzählung. Hochwertige Illustrationen: Die kunstvollen Zeichnungen unterstreichen die düstere Stimmung des Buches perfekt. Nominiert für den Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 2011: Eine Anerkennung für die Qualität und den literarischen Wert des Werkes.

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        Theory of architecture
        November 2014

        The extended self

        Architecture, memes and minds

        by Chris Abel

        In his wide-ranging study of architecture and cultural evolution, Chris Abel argues that, despite progress in sustainable development and design, resistance to changing personal and social identities shaped by a technology-based and energy-hungry culture is impeding efforts to avert drastic climate change. The book traces the roots of that culture to the coevolution of Homo sapiens and technology, from the first use of tools as artificial extensions to the human body, to the motorized cities spreading around the world, whose uncontrolled effects are changing the planet itself. Advancing a new concept of the meme, called the 'technical meme,' as the primary agent of cognitive extension and technical embodiment, Abel proposes a theory of the 'extended self' encompassing material and spatial as well as psychological and social elements. Drawing upon research from philosophy, psychology and the neurosciences, the book presents a new approach to environmental and cultural studies that will appeal to a broad readership searching for insights into the origins of the crisis.

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