K Keohane
Biographic Data
| ID | 37634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Keohane |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Keohane |
| SIGNATURE | KEOHANE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2792-5479 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What the Banshees of Inisherin is about
This paper discusses how the film The Banshees of Inisherin represents and employs key sociological concepts and ideas, namely those of liminality, schismogenesis, stasis and transgression, relating to the social pathologies of contemporary civilization
A portrait of the artist as a young teacher
This paper traces a deep affinity between teaching and learning, talking and walking. This affinity runs as a red thread from the Greeks walking to Delphi; to Walter Benjamin’s (1992a) flâneur, the urban stroller in Paris and Berlin; to Jane Jacobs’ (1961) celebration of New York's ‘sidewalk ballet’; to Simmel’s (1971) discussion of the metropolis, mental life, and modernity's zeitgeist; to the Chicago and Birmingham schools’ ethnographies of str…
An Interview with Lynne Layton, Harvard Medical School
“Ideas Lying Around” Foreword
An Interview with Nidesh Lawtoo, University of Leuven
sponsorship: European Research Council|716181
Deep Institutional Innovation for Sustainability and Human Development
The present moment of deep transition, as well as being a time of danger, presents an opportunity for positive renewal. This paper develops a model of deep institutional innovation at times of historic change such as the present and outlines a research agenda aimed at initiating a holistic assessment of the main foundational institutions in society and re-imagining them in ways that will allow them to fulfill their basic ethical and effectiveness…
Reflections on sociology in Ireland. Between melancholy and hope
Sacrifice, gift and general economy
Sacrificial violence and gift exchange
Resonance, dissonance, and the EU’s ‘soul’
This paper attempts to attune to the musical theme in Hartmut Rosa's Resonance, not in the sense of singing from the same sheet but in a spirit of jamming and improvising, developing a fugue. Music, something close to Hartmut Rosa's heart, grounds us; and simultaneously, music, like all works of art, originated in the service of magical-religious ritual, and the aura of the sacred is still essential to secularized ritual. Music springs from anthr…
Sounding for resonance
“From any point on the surface of existence ... one may drop a sounding into the depths of the soul” (Simmel, 1950) Our salon with Hartmut Rosa on Resonance was hosted in the parlour of No 63 Merrion
What is ‘Alzheimer’s Disease’? The ‘Auguste D’ Case Re-opened
Introduction
Neither the life [or the health] of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. C. Wright Mills (1959) The Sociological ImaginationSocial pathology was
On the Political in the Wake
Carl Schmitt and James Joyce, contemporaries, responding to the crisis of European civilization of the interwar years, are brought into conversation with one another through the mediation of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, Schmitt as representative and advocate of Apollonian logocentrism and Joyce of Dionysian muthos. Parallels as well as differences in these authors' works are examined to illuminate the figure of the dictator and the theme of …
The Darkness Drops Again
This article locates an understanding of the Shell to Sea social movement (mobilised in response to the building of an onshore pipeline dispute in County Mayo) within a wider narrative which incorporates understandings of civil society containing a diverse set of ‘epic conflicts’ such as the anti-globalisation movement and neo-liberalism or phantasmagoric mythic zones and magic realism. In so doing, it puts forward a deeper understanding of the n…
Health, Social Inequality and Taxation
Before the recent economic recession Ireland had become one of the most affluent societies in the world, and the so-called Irish social model of low taxes and low public services provision was seen as one to be emulated, particularly amongst the accession states to the EU. However, Ireland has also become one of the most unequal societies in the OECD, and one of the unhealthiest, measured by all of the standard morbidity and epidemiological indic…
Dance-work
The Irish economic boom, commonly known as the Celtic Tiger, provides an interesting and unique opportunity to explore the relationship between the profound shifts in the organization of working life and in the production and consumption of culture. In this paper, we confine our inquiry into the relationship with one aspect of popular culture, namely dance, focusing on the phenomenon of Riverdance which emerged contemporaneously with the Celtic T…
Moral Education and Cosmopolitanism
The central problem of citizenship and political culture in the 'postnational constellation' is the cultivation and institutionalization of cosmopolitanism as a political identity. The cultivation of citizenship in the postnational constellation echoes the problem Durkheim confronted at the turn of the twentieth century, when he faced the task of developing a systematic programme of moral education as a basis for social solidarity in a secular na…
Trickster's Metempsychosis in the Mythic Age of Globalization
Tribunals, public inquiries and similar institutions, increasingly common in the political culture of the United Kingdom, the European Union, and in America, can be seen as exemplifying the auto-correcting, self-reflexive capacity of political institutions in information-rich and communicatively fluent societies. They represent the modernization of political culture guided by communicative rationality, paralleling the accelerated modernization of…
Collision Culture
This paper interprets the phenomenon of road traffic accidents in contemporary Irish society as a symptom of crisis arising from processes of social transformation. Empirical data from the National Roads Authority, from Local Authority Engineers, and from the Gardaí, showing the typical traffic accident pattern, is used to develop a more general hypothesis of the uneasy coexistence of traditional and modern forms of life in contemporary Ireland. …
Model Homes for Model(led) Citizens
The construction of identity and the cultivation of model citizens are explored in the context of a model housing project for the working classes in 19th-century Cork, Ireland. Historical and contemporary ethnographic analysis reveals the deployment of disciplinary technologies to demarcate the respectable working classes from the unruly mob. Power as subjectification is manifest in the anticipatory socialization and self-presentation of prospect…
The Revitalization of the City and the Demise of Joyce's Utopian Modern Subject
James Joyce provides us in Leopold Bloom, the hero of Ulysses, with a representation of an ideal-type subject of modern urbanism that collects and exemplifies the qualities of Simmel's blast cosmopolitan and Benjamin's flâneur, and fashions them into a model for practical life. Bloom is the 'un-created conscience' of modern city life; a prototype modern hero who struggles to negotiate the twin dangers of the metropolis: the obliteration of indivi…
Ioan Davies
Re‐membering the European citizen
Collective re‐membering is examined in the context of the production of Weimar as European city of Culture. Weimar, cradle of German culture, and location of the prototype concentration camp, is formulated as a site of antagonism. The relationship between a walking/talking tour of the city and remembering is discussed with reference to Freud and Wittgenstein. Re‐membering is considered as suturing, and as ideological interpellation, hegemonic pra…
Reflexive Modernization and Systematically Distorted Communications
This paper critically examines oral hearings conducted by the Irish state Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on proposed industrial developments in Clare and Limerick. Data comes from participant observation at two hearings, and documentary analysis of submissions. The hypothesis that the oral hearing can be formulated as an example of ‘reflexive modernization’ (as in Beck) is tested against the standard of ideal speech preferred by Habermas. …
Canadian immigration policy
Selon les auteurs de cette communication, les données tirées d'entrevues avec les décideurs et de l'observation participante au processus d'élaboration des politiques militent en faveur d'une interprétation de la politique canadienne de l'immigration qui s'articule autour du rǒle de l'État. Pour eux, l'État est une entitéà double visage, à la fois puissante et vulnérable, et c'est ce caractère double qui conditionne les tendances actuelles en mat…
The Revitalization of the City and the Demise of Joyce's Utopian Modern Subject
James Joyce provides us in Leopold Bloom, the hero of Ulysses, with a representation of an ideal-type subject of modern urbanism that collects and exemplifies the qualities of Simmel's blast cosmopolitan and Benjamin's flâneur, and fashions them into a model for practical life. Bloom is the 'un-created conscience' of modern city life; a prototype modern hero who struggles to negotiate the twin dangers of the metropolis: the obliteration of indivi…
Trickster's Metempsychosis in the Mythic Age of Globalization
Tribunals, public inquiries and similar institutions, increasingly common in the political culture of the United Kingdom, the European Union, and in America, can be seen as exemplifying the auto-correcting, self-reflexive capacity of political institutions in information-rich and communicatively fluent societies. They represent the modernization of political culture guided by communicative rationality, paralleling the accelerated modernization of…
Re‐membering the European citizen
Collective re‐membering is examined in the context of the production of Weimar as European city of Culture. Weimar, cradle of German culture, and location of the prototype concentration camp, is formulated as a site of antagonism. The relationship between a walking/talking tour of the city and remembering is discussed with reference to Freud and Wittgenstein. Re‐membering is considered as suturing, and as ideological interpellation, hegemonic pra…
Central Problems in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences After Postmodernism
L'A. analyse le plus grand probleme de la philosophie des sciences sociales, i.e. surmonter le relativisme moral tout en evitant le totalitarisme potentiel de l'universel ou les Verites essentielles des metanarratives modernistes
Sacrifice, gift and general economy
Introduction
Neither the life [or the health] of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. C. Wright Mills (1959) The Sociological ImaginationSocial pathology was
On the Political in the Wake
Carl Schmitt and James Joyce, contemporaries, responding to the crisis of European civilization of the interwar years, are brought into conversation with one another through the mediation of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, Schmitt as representative and advocate of Apollonian logocentrism and Joyce of Dionysian muthos. Parallels as well as differences in these authors' works are examined to illuminate the figure of the dictator and the theme of …
Moral Education and Cosmopolitanism
The central problem of citizenship and political culture in the 'postnational constellation' is the cultivation and institutionalization of cosmopolitanism as a political identity. The cultivation of citizenship in the postnational constellation echoes the problem Durkheim confronted at the turn of the twentieth century, when he faced the task of developing a systematic programme of moral education as a basis for social solidarity in a secular na…
Model Homes for Model(led) Citizens
The construction of identity and the cultivation of model citizens are explored in the context of a model housing project for the working classes in 19th-century Cork, Ireland. Historical and contemporary ethnographic analysis reveals the deployment of disciplinary technologies to demarcate the respectable working classes from the unruly mob. Power as subjectification is manifest in the anticipatory socialization and self-presentation of prospect…
The Young Worker at College
Canadian immigration policy
Selon les auteurs de cette communication, les données tirées d'entrevues avec les décideurs et de l'observation participante au processus d'élaboration des politiques militent en faveur d'une interprétation de la politique canadienne de l'immigration qui s'articule autour du rǒle de l'État. Pour eux, l'État est une entitéà double visage, à la fois puissante et vulnérable, et c'est ce caractère double qui conditionne les tendances actuelles en mat…
Central Problems in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences After Postmodernism
L'A. analyse le plus grand probleme de la philosophie des sciences sociales, i.e. surmonter le relativisme moral tout en evitant le totalitarisme potentiel de l'universel ou les Verites essentielles des metanarratives modernistes
Reflexive Modernization and Systematically Distorted Communications
This paper critically examines oral hearings conducted by the Irish state Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on proposed industrial developments in Clare and Limerick. Data comes from participant observation at two hearings, and documentary analysis of submissions. The hypothesis that the oral hearing can be formulated as an example of ‘reflexive modernization’ (as in Beck) is tested against the standard of ideal speech preferred by Habermas. …
Re‐membering the European citizen
Collective re‐membering is examined in the context of the production of Weimar as European city of Culture. Weimar, cradle of German culture, and location of the prototype concentration camp, is formulated as a site of antagonism. The relationship between a walking/talking tour of the city and remembering is discussed with reference to Freud and Wittgenstein. Re‐membering is considered as suturing, and as ideological interpellation, hegemonic pra…
Ioan Davies
Model Homes for Model(led) Citizens
The construction of identity and the cultivation of model citizens are explored in the context of a model housing project for the working classes in 19th-century Cork, Ireland. Historical and contemporary ethnographic analysis reveals the deployment of disciplinary technologies to demarcate the respectable working classes from the unruly mob. Power as subjectification is manifest in the anticipatory socialization and self-presentation of prospect…
The Revitalization of the City and the Demise of Joyce's Utopian Modern Subject
James Joyce provides us in Leopold Bloom, the hero of Ulysses, with a representation of an ideal-type subject of modern urbanism that collects and exemplifies the qualities of Simmel's blast cosmopolitan and Benjamin's flâneur, and fashions them into a model for practical life. Bloom is the 'un-created conscience' of modern city life; a prototype modern hero who struggles to negotiate the twin dangers of the metropolis: the obliteration of indivi…
Collision Culture
This paper interprets the phenomenon of road traffic accidents in contemporary Irish society as a symptom of crisis arising from processes of social transformation. Empirical data from the National Roads Authority, from Local Authority Engineers, and from the Gardaí, showing the typical traffic accident pattern, is used to develop a more general hypothesis of the uneasy coexistence of traditional and modern forms of life in contemporary Ireland. …
Trickster's Metempsychosis in the Mythic Age of Globalization
Tribunals, public inquiries and similar institutions, increasingly common in the political culture of the United Kingdom, the European Union, and in America, can be seen as exemplifying the auto-correcting, self-reflexive capacity of political institutions in information-rich and communicatively fluent societies. They represent the modernization of political culture guided by communicative rationality, paralleling the accelerated modernization of…
Dance-work
The Irish economic boom, commonly known as the Celtic Tiger, provides an interesting and unique opportunity to explore the relationship between the profound shifts in the organization of working life and in the production and consumption of culture. In this paper, we confine our inquiry into the relationship with one aspect of popular culture, namely dance, focusing on the phenomenon of Riverdance which emerged contemporaneously with the Celtic T…
Moral Education and Cosmopolitanism
The central problem of citizenship and political culture in the 'postnational constellation' is the cultivation and institutionalization of cosmopolitanism as a political identity. The cultivation of citizenship in the postnational constellation echoes the problem Durkheim confronted at the turn of the twentieth century, when he faced the task of developing a systematic programme of moral education as a basis for social solidarity in a secular na…
Health, Social Inequality and Taxation
Before the recent economic recession Ireland had become one of the most affluent societies in the world, and the so-called Irish social model of low taxes and low public services provision was seen as one to be emulated, particularly amongst the accession states to the EU. However, Ireland has also become one of the most unequal societies in the OECD, and one of the unhealthiest, measured by all of the standard morbidity and epidemiological indic…
The Darkness Drops Again
This article locates an understanding of the Shell to Sea social movement (mobilised in response to the building of an onshore pipeline dispute in County Mayo) within a wider narrative which incorporates understandings of civil society containing a diverse set of ‘epic conflicts’ such as the anti-globalisation movement and neo-liberalism or phantasmagoric mythic zones and magic realism. In so doing, it puts forward a deeper understanding of the n…
On the Political in the Wake
Carl Schmitt and James Joyce, contemporaries, responding to the crisis of European civilization of the interwar years, are brought into conversation with one another through the mediation of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, Schmitt as representative and advocate of Apollonian logocentrism and Joyce of Dionysian muthos. Parallels as well as differences in these authors' works are examined to illuminate the figure of the dictator and the theme of …
Introduction
Neither the life [or the health] of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. C. Wright Mills (1959) The Sociological ImaginationSocial pathology was
What is ‘Alzheimer’s Disease’? The ‘Auguste D’ Case Re-opened
Sacrificial violence and gift exchange
Resonance, dissonance, and the EU’s ‘soul’
This paper attempts to attune to the musical theme in Hartmut Rosa's Resonance, not in the sense of singing from the same sheet but in a spirit of jamming and improvising, developing a fugue. Music, something close to Hartmut Rosa's heart, grounds us; and simultaneously, music, like all works of art, originated in the service of magical-religious ritual, and the aura of the sacred is still essential to secularized ritual. Music springs from anthr…
Sounding for resonance
“From any point on the surface of existence ... one may drop a sounding into the depths of the soul” (Simmel, 1950) Our salon with Hartmut Rosa on Resonance was hosted in the parlour of No 63 Merrion
Deep Institutional Innovation for Sustainability and Human Development
The present moment of deep transition, as well as being a time of danger, presents an opportunity for positive renewal. This paper develops a model of deep institutional innovation at times of historic change such as the present and outlines a research agenda aimed at initiating a holistic assessment of the main foundational institutions in society and re-imagining them in ways that will allow them to fulfill their basic ethical and effectiveness…
Reflections on sociology in Ireland. Between melancholy and hope
Sacrifice, gift and general economy
An Interview with Lynne Layton, Harvard Medical School
“Ideas Lying Around” Foreword
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