Carmen Kuhling
Biographic Data
| ID | 1370056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carmen Kuhling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carmen |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuhling |
| SIGNATURE | KUHLING C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Limerick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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
The domestic, moral and political economies of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland: What rough beast?
This book explores the issue of a collective representation of Ireland after the sudden death of the 'Celtic Tiger' and introduces the aesthetic idea that runs throughout. The focus is on the idea articulated by W. B. Yeats in his famous poem 'The Second Coming'. The book also explores the symbolic order and imaginative structure, the meanings and values associated with house and home, the haunted houses of Ireland's 'ghost estates' and the fisca…
Zombie banks, zombie politics and the ‘Walking Zombie Movement’: Liminality and the post-crisis Irish imaginary
This article will explore the liminal figure of the zombie as a playful but also a serious image or collective representation which captures the institutions, subjectivities and structures of the new, post-austerity context in Europe and Ireland. Since the economic crisis, there have been numerous references to ‘zombie banks’, ‘zombie politicians’, ‘zombie-neoliberalism’ in journalism and social theory. Zombies are a ‘floating signifier’ of our c…
The Darkness Drops Again: A Recurrence of the Táin Foretold in the ‘Corrib Gas Giveaway’
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: How Ireland's Schizmogenic Social Model Undermines the Well-Being of the European Body Politic
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: Images of Organization in Irish Dance
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…
The smoking ban in Ireland: Smoke-free or smokescreen
Since the inception of the smoking ban in Ireland, there has been a fair amount of public controversy in terms of its potential effects on the Irish economy, the healthcare system, tourism, and pub culture. At the level of public discourse, the ban has raised a variety of interesting issues and polarisations. These include debates on the rights of policy-makers versus individual freedoms; and on the potential economic effects of the resultant dec…
Counter-hegemony, anti-globalisation and culture in International Political Economy
This article argues that studies of counter-hegemony and resistance in International Political Economy (IPE) have often ignored the cultural dimensions of anti-globalisation. We argue that a greater understanding of the elements needed for the articulation of counter-hegemony within IPE can be achieved through an engagement with the traditions inherent in the Birmingham School, and with the elements of Situationism contained within the anti-consu…
Collision Culture: Road Traffic Accidents and the Experience of Accelerated Modernisation in Ireland
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. …
Ioan Davies: Cosmopolitan Sociological Flaneur
Counter-hegemony, anti-globalisation and culture in International Political Economy
This article argues that studies of counter-hegemony and resistance in International Political Economy (IPE) have often ignored the cultural dimensions of anti-globalisation. We argue that a greater understanding of the elements needed for the articulation of counter-hegemony within IPE can be achieved through an engagement with the traditions inherent in the Birmingham School, and with the elements of Situationism contained within the anti-consu…
Zombie banks, zombie politics and the ‘Walking Zombie Movement’: Liminality and the post-crisis Irish imaginary
This article will explore the liminal figure of the zombie as a playful but also a serious image or collective representation which captures the institutions, subjectivities and structures of the new, post-austerity context in Europe and Ireland. Since the economic crisis, there have been numerous references to ‘zombie banks’, ‘zombie politicians’, ‘zombie-neoliberalism’ in journalism and social theory. Zombies are a ‘floating signifier’ of our c…
Ioan Davies: Cosmopolitan Sociological Flaneur
Collision Culture: Road Traffic Accidents and the Experience of Accelerated Modernisation in Ireland
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. …
The smoking ban in Ireland: Smoke-free or smokescreen
Since the inception of the smoking ban in Ireland, there has been a fair amount of public controversy in terms of its potential effects on the Irish economy, the healthcare system, tourism, and pub culture. At the level of public discourse, the ban has raised a variety of interesting issues and polarisations. These include debates on the rights of policy-makers versus individual freedoms; and on the potential economic effects of the resultant dec…
Counter-hegemony, anti-globalisation and culture in International Political Economy
This article argues that studies of counter-hegemony and resistance in International Political Economy (IPE) have often ignored the cultural dimensions of anti-globalisation. We argue that a greater understanding of the elements needed for the articulation of counter-hegemony within IPE can be achieved through an engagement with the traditions inherent in the Birmingham School, and with the elements of Situationism contained within the anti-consu…
Dance-work: Images of Organization in Irish Dance
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…
Health, Social Inequality and Taxation: How Ireland's Schizmogenic Social Model Undermines the Well-Being of the European Body Politic
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: A Recurrence of the Táin Foretold in the ‘Corrib Gas Giveaway’
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…
The domestic, moral and political economies of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland: What rough beast?
This book explores the issue of a collective representation of Ireland after the sudden death of the 'Celtic Tiger' and introduces the aesthetic idea that runs throughout. The focus is on the idea articulated by W. B. Yeats in his famous poem 'The Second Coming'. The book also explores the symbolic order and imaginative structure, the meanings and values associated with house and home, the haunted houses of Ireland's 'ghost estates' and the fisca…
Zombie banks, zombie politics and the ‘Walking Zombie Movement’: Liminality and the post-crisis Irish imaginary
This article will explore the liminal figure of the zombie as a playful but also a serious image or collective representation which captures the institutions, subjectivities and structures of the new, post-austerity context in Europe and Ireland. Since the economic crisis, there have been numerous references to ‘zombie banks’, ‘zombie politicians’, ‘zombie-neoliberalism’ in journalism and social theory. Zombies are a ‘floating signifier’ of our c…
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
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Irish (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Irish and British Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)