Cathal Mccall
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 446196 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Cathal Mccall |
| NOMBRES | Cathal |
| APELLIDO | Mccall |
| FIRMA | MCCALL C |
| AFILIACIONES | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5150-1428 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 143 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Foucault in Brazil
Why Brazil?That is, why did Foucault make several trips to Brazil over the span of some ten years?After all, he had not published scholarly work related to Brazilian history or culture, nor was his work especially focused on the Western hemisphere or issues that would lead a scholar to turn their interests to Brazil, issues such as slavery or imperialism.Although it does not definitively answer the question (indeed, this question may be impossibl…
Special Issue Introduction
Potential History
Oedipal fragments
This essay reconstructs James Bernauer’s reading of Foucault’s critique of psychoanalysis in his essay “Oedipus, Freud, Foucault” in order to assess the role that Foucault’s critique of psychoanalysis and his reading of Oedipus play in Bernauer’s account of Foucault’s ethics. Along the way, it traces a shift in Foucault’s reading of Oedipus in terms of power and knowledge in Lectures on the Will to Know to rituals of truth or alethurgy in On the …
Border Ireland
When the 1998 Good Friday Agreement brought an end to decades of conflict, which was mainly focused on the existence of the Irish border, most breathed a sigh of relief. Then came Brexit. Border Ireland: From Partition to Brexit introduces readers to the Irish border. It considers the process of bordering after the partition of Ireland, to the Good Friday Agreement and attendant debordering to the post-Brexit landscape. The UK's departure from th…
Border Ireland
The division of Ireland and its foes
Critics of partition argue that it contributes to the perpetuation, rather than the amelioration, of territorial conflict. This paper engages with the theoretical debates on partition, focusing on the particular and illustrative case of Ireland. The island has been partitioned into two polities for a century. Opposition to the partition of Ireland has existed from the outset to the contemporary Brexit context. The argument is that while hostility…
Reconsidering Nietzsche and Politics
A review of two distinctive yet, in the end, complementary approaches to reviving Nietzsche as a political thinker beyond his early reception as a prophet of National Socialism or subsequently as an apolitical thinker
John Dewey and James Baldwin on History, Tragedy, and the Forgetting of Race
This essay examines various intellectual affinities between Dewey and Baldwin, including their pragmatic and tragic conceptions of history. I argue in the first section that Dewey’s attention to the precarious dimensions of experience and his critique of dominant modes of inquiry that prioritize the stable over the precarious pay insufficient attention to race, though this focus on the precarious over the stable aspects of experience is enough to…
Cross-Border Cooperation as Conflict Transformation
Can we continue to view European Integration as a project associated with conflict transformation and peacebuilding through the promotion of soft borders and cross-border cooperation? Or are we fac
Brexit, Bordering and Bodies on the Island of Ireland
The Brexit campaign to withdraw the United Kingdom from the European Union (EU) was driven primarily by opposition to immigration and the freedom of movement of EU workers to Britain. Consequently, a central focus of Brexit was the perceived need for bordering, that is, the strengthening of Britain’s borders as security barriers to prevent the movement of these unwanted outsiders to Britain. Such bordering has the potential to turn the tide again…
Secondary foreign policy activities in Third sector cross-border cooperation as conflict transformation in the European Union
This paper provides a comparative examination of Third (non-public, non-profit) sector cross-border cooperation contributing to conflict transformation in the Basque (France/Spain) and Irish (UK/Ireland) borderscapes. The comparison is based on the premise that the European Union (EU) played a different role in both cases. In the Irish case, the EU contributed to the institutionalization of a peace process that included cross-border cooperation b…
Rituals of Conduct and Counter-Conduct
This essay provides an account of the role of ritual in governmentality (or the conducting of conduct) through an analysis of key texts during the period roughly from 1973 through 1981. I claim that ritual plays an essential role in Foucault's analysis of juridical forms and sovereign power as well as conduct and counter-conduct understood as features of governmentality and political rationality
Divided Nations and European Integration
Creating new state borders or extinguishing existing ones has rarely occurred without heads being blown off.1 The “Founding Fathers” of the European integration project had an acute understanding o
Northern Ireland
Since the United Kingdom and Ireland joined the European Communities (EC) 40 years ago, Northern Ireland has not only witnessed many of the darkest years of ‘The Troubles’ but also emerged from violent conflict as a more economically prosperous region with a broadly functioning devolved administration. The EU has often enjoyed a high profile, particularly as a source of funding. Successive European Parliament (EP) elections have been hotly contes…
European Union Cross-Border Cooperation and Conflict Amelioration
The relevance of European Union (EU) cross-border cooperation for European border con?ict amelioration may be questioned in the contemporary global climate of threat and insecurity posed by forces of ’dark globalisation’. In any case, empirical evidence exposes the limitations of cross-border cooperation in advancing con?ict amelioration in some border regions. Nevertheless, in an enlarged EU which encompasses Central and East European member sta…
Ambivalent Modernities
This essay reconsiders Foucault's writings on the Iranian Revolution in the context of his thought during 1977-1979. The essay defends three related claims: (1) Foucault does not turn away from power toward ethics as many scholars have claimed, (2) Careful interpretation of the texts on the Iranian Revolution will help us to better understand Foucault's essays and lecture courses from this period (in particular, the relationship between political…
Some Philosophical Ambiguities of Curiosity in the Work of Heidegger, Foucault, and Gadamer
(2011). Some Philosophical Ambiguities of Curiosity in the Work of Heidegger, Foucault, and Gadamer. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 42, Ethics, Curiosity and Ontology, pp. 176-193
Culture and the Irish border
The Irish border (between Northern Ireland – the ‘North’ and the Republic of Ireland – the ‘South’) has been described as a ‘natural’ cultural divide between the island’s two dominant indigenous ethno-national communities. However, an examination of key resources of ethno-national group culture – religion, sport and language – provides evidence to challenge this representation. Moreover, in the post-1994 period of conflict transformation, evidenc…
Europeanisation and Hibernicisation
Scholars across the humanities and social sciences are increasingly examining the importance of European integration and Europeanisation to changing notions of local, regional, national and supranational identity in Europe. As part of this interest, anthropologists, historians, sociologists, political scientists and others have paid particular attention to the roles which EU policies and initiatives have played in the construction of local, regio…
Fiat ars pereat mundus”
This essay assesses the prescience of Benjamin's Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by examining its conclusions in light of the Global War on Terror. Following an initial section in which I provide a brief overview of Benjamin's essay and revisit its conclusion, I proceed to analyze the various ways that Bush administration officials claimed that they could remake the world in America's image. The key question at stake in this pap…
Johanna Oksala , Foucault on Freedom . (Cambridge
This book provides a thorough reconsideration of Foucault's corpus.Oksala proposes that we read and understand Foucault's thought through the lens of freedom.The relevance of freedom as a concept unifying the seemingly disparate themes of Foucault's texts is a suggestive one, although this proposal must in the end meet with some amount of skepticism.I will give a brief overview of Oksala's book before outlining some of the substantial reasons to …
Edward McGushin
Michael J. Sandel, The Case Against Perfection
Caine's Stake
Our reasons for avoiding death are manifold, encompassing among others, motives that are personal, political, and historical. Still, are there ways that we might use words to overcome these common everyday aversions to death and the dead through another modality of language, that of poetry for example? Can the poetic word get us to acknowledge the particulars of death despite the various reasons we have to disavow it? Might we use language not si…
Hanging Flower Baskets, Blowing in the Wind? Third-Sector Groups, Cross-Border Partnerships, and the EU Peace Programs in Ireland
The EU's Peace Programs in Ireland have promoted the cross-border activity of Third sector (voluntary and community) groups. Potentially, such activity gives substantive meaning to regional cross-border governance and helps to ameliorate ethno-national conflict by providing positive sum outcomes for “post-conflict” communities. The paper mobilizes focused research conducted by the authors to explore this potential. It finds that while regional cr…
Governance and Democracy in Northern Ireland
Since 1998, Northern Ireland has been the subject of a unique experiment in governance and democracy. The experiment includes the establishment of a participatory Civic Forum in which the voluntary and community sector has an important stake. Beginning with a discussion of the merits of a participatory aspect to democracy in the contemporary age, this paper identifies factors that might help establish the Civic Forum as a successful participatory…
Culture and the Irish border
The Irish border (between Northern Ireland – the ‘North’ and the Republic of Ireland – the ‘South’) has been described as a ‘natural’ cultural divide between the island’s two dominant indigenous ethno-national communities. However, an examination of key resources of ethno-national group culture – religion, sport and language – provides evidence to challenge this representation. Moreover, in the post-1994 period of conflict transformation, evidenc…
Escaping the Cage of Ethno-National Conflict in Northern Ireland? The Importance of Transnational Networks
The paper uses research on the EU Special Programme for Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Border Counties of the Republic of Ireland (Peace II) to interrogate the relationship between inter-nationalization, transnationalism and the amelioration of a deeply territorialized ethno-national conflict. It concludes that inter-national cooperation and territorial containment strategies risk enhancing zero-sum territorial politics with…
Brexit, Bordering and Bodies on the Island of Ireland
The Brexit campaign to withdraw the United Kingdom from the European Union (EU) was driven primarily by opposition to immigration and the freedom of movement of EU workers to Britain. Consequently, a central focus of Brexit was the perceived need for bordering, that is, the strengthening of Britain’s borders as security barriers to prevent the movement of these unwanted outsiders to Britain. Such bordering has the potential to turn the tide again…
European Union Cross-Border Cooperation and Conflict Amelioration
The relevance of European Union (EU) cross-border cooperation for European border con?ict amelioration may be questioned in the contemporary global climate of threat and insecurity posed by forces of ’dark globalisation’. In any case, empirical evidence exposes the limitations of cross-border cooperation in advancing con?ict amelioration in some border regions. Nevertheless, in an enlarged EU which encompasses Central and East European member sta…
Fledgling social partnership in the Irish Border Region
The Irish Border Region is synonymous with social and economic stagnation. Through multi-level social partnership, involving the voluntary and community sector, the European Union (EU) has attempted to initiate a concerted effort aimed at rescuing the Irish Border Region from its socioeconomic plight. The main conduits for this particular multi-level social partnership are the EU 'Community Initiatives' INTERREG (the initiative dealing with cross…
Identity in Northern Ireland
By focusing on the possibilities for change created by the dynamics of European integration and the Anglo-Irish political process, this book provides a refreshing account of communal identity in North
Border Ireland
When the 1998 Good Friday Agreement brought an end to decades of conflict, which was mainly focused on the existence of the Irish border, most breathed a sigh of relief. Then came Brexit. Border Ireland: From Partition to Brexit introduces readers to the Irish border. It considers the process of bordering after the partition of Ireland, to the Good Friday Agreement and attendant debordering to the post-Brexit landscape. The UK's departure from th…
Postmodern Europe and the Resources of Communal Identities in Northern Ireland
Irish Nationalist and Ulster Unionist communal identities have territorial, cultural and economic resources. Catalysts that have mobilized these resources and produced political action include 19th century famine and the Northern Ireland civil rights campaign of the late 1960s. As we approach the 21st century and the conditions and concepts of postmodernity initiate change in the structure and operation of the state, the European Union may realiz…
The Production of Space and the Realignment of Identity in Northern Ireland
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Ambivalent Modernities
This essay reconsiders Foucault's writings on the Iranian Revolution in the context of his thought during 1977-1979. The essay defends three related claims: (1) Foucault does not turn away from power toward ethics as many scholars have claimed, (2) Careful interpretation of the texts on the Iranian Revolution will help us to better understand Foucault's essays and lecture courses from this period (in particular, the relationship between political…
Secondary foreign policy activities in Third sector cross-border cooperation as conflict transformation in the European Union
This paper provides a comparative examination of Third (non-public, non-profit) sector cross-border cooperation contributing to conflict transformation in the Basque (France/Spain) and Irish (UK/Ireland) borderscapes. The comparison is based on the premise that the European Union (EU) played a different role in both cases. In the Irish case, the EU contributed to the institutionalization of a peace process that included cross-border cooperation b…
Rituals of Conduct and Counter-Conduct
This essay provides an account of the role of ritual in governmentality (or the conducting of conduct) through an analysis of key texts during the period roughly from 1973 through 1981. I claim that ritual plays an essential role in Foucault's analysis of juridical forms and sovereign power as well as conduct and counter-conduct understood as features of governmentality and political rationality
Caine's Stake
Our reasons for avoiding death are manifold, encompassing among others, motives that are personal, political, and historical. Still, are there ways that we might use words to overcome these common everyday aversions to death and the dead through another modality of language, that of poetry for example? Can the poetic word get us to acknowledge the particulars of death despite the various reasons we have to disavow it? Might we use language not si…
Potential History
The division of Ireland and its foes
Critics of partition argue that it contributes to the perpetuation, rather than the amelioration, of territorial conflict. This paper engages with the theoretical debates on partition, focusing on the particular and illustrative case of Ireland. The island has been partitioned into two polities for a century. Opposition to the partition of Ireland has existed from the outset to the contemporary Brexit context. The argument is that while hostility…
Some Philosophical Ambiguities of Curiosity in the Work of Heidegger, Foucault, and Gadamer
(2011). Some Philosophical Ambiguities of Curiosity in the Work of Heidegger, Foucault, and Gadamer. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 42, Ethics, Curiosity and Ontology, pp. 176-193
Postmodern Europe and the Resources of Communal Identities in Northern Ireland
Irish Nationalist and Ulster Unionist communal identities have territorial, cultural and economic resources. Catalysts that have mobilized these resources and produced political action include 19th century famine and the Northern Ireland civil rights campaign of the late 1960s. As we approach the 21st century and the conditions and concepts of postmodernity initiate change in the structure and operation of the state, the European Union may realiz…
Identity in Northern Ireland
By focusing on the possibilities for change created by the dynamics of European integration and the Anglo-Irish political process, this book provides a refreshing account of communal identity in North
Fledgling social partnership in the Irish Border Region
The Irish Border Region is synonymous with social and economic stagnation. Through multi-level social partnership, involving the voluntary and community sector, the European Union (EU) has attempted to initiate a concerted effort aimed at rescuing the Irish Border Region from its socioeconomic plight. The main conduits for this particular multi-level social partnership are the EU 'Community Initiatives' INTERREG (the initiative dealing with cross…
The Production of Space and the Realignment of Identity in Northern Ireland
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Governance and Democracy in Northern Ireland
Since 1998, Northern Ireland has been the subject of a unique experiment in governance and democracy. The experiment includes the establishment of a participatory Civic Forum in which the voluntary and community sector has an important stake. Beginning with a discussion of the merits of a participatory aspect to democracy in the contemporary age, this paper identifies factors that might help establish the Civic Forum as a successful participatory…
Political Transformation and the Reinvention of the Ulster-Scots Identity and Culture
In the 1990s, Ulster-Scots language and culture was mobilized by some Ulster unionists in Northern Ireland as a badge of their cultural identity. The Ulster-Scots language and culture had its eighteenth century, premodern heyday in the north-eastern counties of the north of Ireland where it expressed distinctiveness from English and Englishness. However, in common with many regional dialects elsewhere in Europe, the processes of modernization sig…
Shifting Thresholds, Contested Meanings
Cross-border (North/South) co-operation between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland was an indelible feature of the form of governance provided by the Belfast Good Friday Agreement (1998). Previous efforts to establish North/South co-operation had all foundered but the establishment and initial operation of the Agreement’s cross-border institutions proved to be uncontroversial. However, during its implementation, other areas of the Agree…
Johanna Oksala , Foucault on Freedom . (Cambridge
This book provides a thorough reconsideration of Foucault's corpus.Oksala proposes that we read and understand Foucault's thought through the lens of freedom.The relevance of freedom as a concept unifying the seemingly disparate themes of Foucault's texts is a suggestive one, although this proposal must in the end meet with some amount of skepticism.I will give a brief overview of Oksala's book before outlining some of the substantial reasons to …
Escaping the Cage of Ethno-National Conflict in Northern Ireland? The Importance of Transnational Networks
The paper uses research on the EU Special Programme for Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Border Counties of the Republic of Ireland (Peace II) to interrogate the relationship between inter-nationalization, transnationalism and the amelioration of a deeply territorialized ethno-national conflict. It concludes that inter-national cooperation and territorial containment strategies risk enhancing zero-sum territorial politics with…
Hanging Flower Baskets, Blowing in the Wind? Third-Sector Groups, Cross-Border Partnerships, and the EU Peace Programs in Ireland
The EU's Peace Programs in Ireland have promoted the cross-border activity of Third sector (voluntary and community) groups. Potentially, such activity gives substantive meaning to regional cross-border governance and helps to ameliorate ethno-national conflict by providing positive sum outcomes for “post-conflict” communities. The paper mobilizes focused research conducted by the authors to explore this potential. It finds that while regional cr…
Fiat ars pereat mundus”
This essay assesses the prescience of Benjamin's Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by examining its conclusions in light of the Global War on Terror. Following an initial section in which I provide a brief overview of Benjamin's essay and revisit its conclusion, I proceed to analyze the various ways that Bush administration officials claimed that they could remake the world in America's image. The key question at stake in this pap…
Europeanisation and Hibernicisation
Scholars across the humanities and social sciences are increasingly examining the importance of European integration and Europeanisation to changing notions of local, regional, national and supranational identity in Europe. As part of this interest, anthropologists, historians, sociologists, political scientists and others have paid particular attention to the roles which EU policies and initiatives have played in the construction of local, regio…
Some Philosophical Ambiguities of Curiosity in the Work of Heidegger, Foucault, and Gadamer
(2011). Some Philosophical Ambiguities of Curiosity in the Work of Heidegger, Foucault, and Gadamer. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 42, Ethics, Curiosity and Ontology, pp. 176-193
Culture and the Irish border
The Irish border (between Northern Ireland – the ‘North’ and the Republic of Ireland – the ‘South’) has been described as a ‘natural’ cultural divide between the island’s two dominant indigenous ethno-national communities. However, an examination of key resources of ethno-national group culture – religion, sport and language – provides evidence to challenge this representation. Moreover, in the post-1994 period of conflict transformation, evidenc…
Northern Ireland
Since the United Kingdom and Ireland joined the European Communities (EC) 40 years ago, Northern Ireland has not only witnessed many of the darkest years of ‘The Troubles’ but also emerged from violent conflict as a more economically prosperous region with a broadly functioning devolved administration. The EU has often enjoyed a high profile, particularly as a source of funding. Successive European Parliament (EP) elections have been hotly contes…
European Union Cross-Border Cooperation and Conflict Amelioration
The relevance of European Union (EU) cross-border cooperation for European border con?ict amelioration may be questioned in the contemporary global climate of threat and insecurity posed by forces of ’dark globalisation’. In any case, empirical evidence exposes the limitations of cross-border cooperation in advancing con?ict amelioration in some border regions. Nevertheless, in an enlarged EU which encompasses Central and East European member sta…
Ambivalent Modernities
This essay reconsiders Foucault's writings on the Iranian Revolution in the context of his thought during 1977-1979. The essay defends three related claims: (1) Foucault does not turn away from power toward ethics as many scholars have claimed, (2) Careful interpretation of the texts on the Iranian Revolution will help us to better understand Foucault's essays and lecture courses from this period (in particular, the relationship between political…
Divided Nations and European Integration
Creating new state borders or extinguishing existing ones has rarely occurred without heads being blown off.1 The “Founding Fathers” of the European integration project had an acute understanding o
Rituals of Conduct and Counter-Conduct
This essay provides an account of the role of ritual in governmentality (or the conducting of conduct) through an analysis of key texts during the period roughly from 1973 through 1981. I claim that ritual plays an essential role in Foucault's analysis of juridical forms and sovereign power as well as conduct and counter-conduct understood as features of governmentality and political rationality
Secondary foreign policy activities in Third sector cross-border cooperation as conflict transformation in the European Union
This paper provides a comparative examination of Third (non-public, non-profit) sector cross-border cooperation contributing to conflict transformation in the Basque (France/Spain) and Irish (UK/Ireland) borderscapes. The comparison is based on the premise that the European Union (EU) played a different role in both cases. In the Irish case, the EU contributed to the institutionalization of a peace process that included cross-border cooperation b…
Brexit, Bordering and Bodies on the Island of Ireland
The Brexit campaign to withdraw the United Kingdom from the European Union (EU) was driven primarily by opposition to immigration and the freedom of movement of EU workers to Britain. Consequently, a central focus of Brexit was the perceived need for bordering, that is, the strengthening of Britain’s borders as security barriers to prevent the movement of these unwanted outsiders to Britain. Such bordering has the potential to turn the tide again…
John Dewey and James Baldwin on History, Tragedy, and the Forgetting of Race
This essay examines various intellectual affinities between Dewey and Baldwin, including their pragmatic and tragic conceptions of history. I argue in the first section that Dewey’s attention to the precarious dimensions of experience and his critique of dominant modes of inquiry that prioritize the stable over the precarious pay insufficient attention to race, though this focus on the precarious over the stable aspects of experience is enough to…
Cross-Border Cooperation as Conflict Transformation
Can we continue to view European Integration as a project associated with conflict transformation and peacebuilding through the promotion of soft borders and cross-border cooperation? Or are we fac
Reconsidering Nietzsche and Politics
A review of two distinctive yet, in the end, complementary approaches to reviving Nietzsche as a political thinker beyond his early reception as a prophet of National Socialism or subsequently as an apolitical thinker
Potential History
Political science (26 obras) · Sociology (23 obras) · Law (21 obras) · Politics (19 obras) · Irish and British Studies (15 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Political economy (12 obras) · Economics (10 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Aesthetics (8 obras)