Maureen Mahon
Biographic Data
| ID | 137280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maureen Mahon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maureen |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahon |
| SIGNATURE | MAHON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6216-9448 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 192 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Night Vision: Navigating Walking Interviews in the Dark
Mobile interview methods have been widely used for engaging with different places while actively ‘going along’ with participants. However, invariably, these research methods are conducted during daytime conditions, leaving scope for further investigation into the underexplored ‘every night’. This paper contributes to the discourse on mobile methodologies by presenting a case for the use of darkness both as a research method and as a sensory and t…
From culture to capacity: Exploring neo-endogenous dynamics in culture-based development in the Japanese municipality of Higashikawa, the “Town of Photography
We explore how the Japanese national regional development program, Furusato Nozei Hometown Tax Donation System, is implemented innovatively in the Japanese rural municipality of Higashikawa. Originally launched as a regional development program, the Furusato Nozei system evolved into a multi-stakeholder network as private sector platform companies started to coordinate donation transactions and constructed an online marketplace of return gifts of…
Policy discourses on homecare services for rural older people in Ireland: Spatial and age-based drivers of narratives and absences
A spatial justice perspective on EU rural sustainability as territorial cohesion
Territorial cohesion is a guiding set of EU principles to achieve sustainable development. However, evidence suggests that within and across rural and peripheral regions in particular, prosperity and social and economic wellbeing continue to lag behind other regions. The aim of this article is to examine how a spatial justice perspective can provide new development insights on rural sustainability. Introducing a spatial justice perspective to a s…
Everyday resilience: Rural communities as agents of change in peatland social-ecological systems
The ability to maintain livelihoods in the face of major environmental, political, economic and social stresses is fundamental to building resilient social and ecological communities. This research examines the place community has in this challenge and specifically the role of community involvement in the conservation of peatland social-ecological systems. It explores transformative change at local levels and the relational networks, diverse econ…
Situating spatial justice in counter-urban lifestyle mobilities: Relational rural theory in a time of crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has renewed the rural idyll, as urban-dwellers seek greener, safer spaces. If the counter-urban trend appears for novel reasons, it does so along lifestyle mobilities’ well-worn paths. These paths often depend upon spatial inequalities. Yet, despite awareness that inequalities undergird mobilities, spatial inequalities have remained under-theorized in the lifestyle mobilities literature. This article remedies the gap through…
Risky (farm) business: Perceptions of economic risk in farm succession and inheritance
Unlikely alliances? Knowledge, power and the collaborative governance of Irish peatlands
Rural Arts Festivals as Contributors to Rural Development and Resilience
This article explores how two rural arts festivals, one in the town of Boyle (Boyle Arts Festival), in Western Ireland and the other in the municipality of Mäntyharju, (Salmela Festival) Eastern Finland, contribute to the development of their respective localities and communities via two different models of festival implementation. Both festivals have a major focus on visual art along with other events such as music and enjoy strong reputations f…
Doing Art in the Country
Creative industries and the creative economy of the West of Ireland: Evidence of sustainable change
Our goal here is to consider how the rise of the creative economy in the west of Ireland can be situated in broader trends of industrial and economic change. This work is based on a number of EU funded projects (Creative Edge; Creative Momentum) that have sought to prove the nature and extent of the creative economy in Europe's most peripheral regions. Here we consider the key traits of a burgeoning economy and question how it fits into (results …
Artists as workers in the rural; precarious livelihoods, sustaining rural futures
The transformative potential of the arts and culture in sustaining rural futures
Policy drivers of farm succession and inheritance
Local knowledge and environmentality in legitimacy discourses on Irish peatlands regulation
Protected geographical indications: Institutional roles in food systems governance and rural development
Music, Power, and Practice
I am aware that, on the eve of the 2012 United States presidential election, it may seem like sidestepping "real politics" and the "real issues" to talk about cultural politics. Still, I want to do so because thinking in terms of cultural politics enables us to examine the ways in which people debate, reproduce, and sometimes change power relations through their engagements with expressive culture. I'll even go so far as to say that through engag…
Arranging public support to unfold collaborative modes of governance in rural areas
They Say She's Different: Race, Gender, Genre, and the Liberated Black Femininity of Betty Davis
Power, Positionality and the View from within: Agricultural Advisers' Role in Implementing Participatory Extension Programmes in the Republic of Ireland
This article examines the experience of implementing a participatory model of public extension advisory programme in the Republic of Ireland. Focusing specifically on the role and experiences of extension advisers, it draws evidence from an evaluation of the ‘Options for Farm Families Programme’. It is argued that, while participatory approaches are increasingly promoted from an institutional perspective, they also raise a number of dilemmas for …
Civic Engagement and Governance in the Urban-Rural Fringe: Evidence from Ireland
The urban-rural fringe in Ireland harbors diverse and often competing visions of place that unfold against a backdrop of rapid physical and socio-economic change. The desire to develop and articulate a shared sense of belonging rooted in place might be reasonably expected to lead to community-level expression through diverse local organizations. These in turn become embedded in wider institutionalized systems of governance. The importance of plac…
The significance of quality of life and sustainability at the urban–rural fringe in the making of place-based community
Governance Deficits in Residential Housing Estates in Ireland
The interpretation and operation of planning guidelines relating to private housing estates in Ireland, and the structures for involving residents in their management thereafter, are examined. Institutional and legislative weaknesses underlying the current approaches to estate management have created a range of governance deficits, with potentially longer-term adverse impacts for the development of a sense of local community and for the promotion…
New populations; shifting expectations: The changing experience of Irish rural space and place
Diasporic Hegemonies: Popular Culture and Transnational Blackness
POPULAR CULTURE AND TRANSNATIONAL BLACKNESS is the second in a series of two dialogues organized by Deborah A. Thomas and Tina M. Campt as part of a project titled "Diasporic Hegemonies." In this dialogue, Maureen Mahon and Lena Sawyer draw from their ethnographic research within the United States and Europe to discuss the role of Africa (and originary "homelands" in general) in imagining diasporic communities in various locations. They also inte…
The Visible Evidence of Cultural Producers
This review discusses anthropological research that analyzes the practices through which individuals and groups produce music, video, film, visual arts, and theater, and the ideological and institutional frameworks within which these processes occur. Viewing these media and popular culture forms as arenas in which social actors struggle over social meanings and as visible evidence of social processes and social relations, this research addresses …
New populations; shifting expectations: The changing experience of Irish rural space and place
Policy drivers of farm succession and inheritance
Arranging public support to unfold collaborative modes of governance in rural areas
Artists as workers in the rural; precarious livelihoods, sustaining rural futures
Risky (farm) business: Perceptions of economic risk in farm succession and inheritance
Black Like This: Race, Generation, and Rock in the Post-Civil Rights Era
In this article, I demonstrate that the intersection of race, class, generation, and education had a decisive impact on African American rock musicians who came of age during the post-civil rights era from the late 1960s to the present. By analyzing life stories, I connect rock musicians' experiences with school desegregation to the position they occupy between black and white mainstreams and discuss how they critique discourses of black authenti…
The transformative potential of the arts and culture in sustaining rural futures
Protected geographical indications: Institutional roles in food systems governance and rural development
Rural Arts Festivals as Contributors to Rural Development and Resilience
This article explores how two rural arts festivals, one in the town of Boyle (Boyle Arts Festival), in Western Ireland and the other in the municipality of Mäntyharju, (Salmela Festival) Eastern Finland, contribute to the development of their respective localities and communities via two different models of festival implementation. Both festivals have a major focus on visual art along with other events such as music and enjoy strong reputations f…
The significance of quality of life and sustainability at the urban–rural fringe in the making of place-based community
Situating spatial justice in counter-urban lifestyle mobilities: Relational rural theory in a time of crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has renewed the rural idyll, as urban-dwellers seek greener, safer spaces. If the counter-urban trend appears for novel reasons, it does so along lifestyle mobilities’ well-worn paths. These paths often depend upon spatial inequalities. Yet, despite awareness that inequalities undergird mobilities, spatial inequalities have remained under-theorized in the lifestyle mobilities literature. This article remedies the gap through…
Doing Art in the Country
Power, Positionality and the View from within: Agricultural Advisers' Role in Implementing Participatory Extension Programmes in the Republic of Ireland
This article examines the experience of implementing a participatory model of public extension advisory programme in the Republic of Ireland. Focusing specifically on the role and experiences of extension advisers, it draws evidence from an evaluation of the ‘Options for Farm Families Programme’. It is argued that, while participatory approaches are increasingly promoted from an institutional perspective, they also raise a number of dilemmas for …
A spatial justice perspective on EU rural sustainability as territorial cohesion
Territorial cohesion is a guiding set of EU principles to achieve sustainable development. However, evidence suggests that within and across rural and peripheral regions in particular, prosperity and social and economic wellbeing continue to lag behind other regions. The aim of this article is to examine how a spatial justice perspective can provide new development insights on rural sustainability. Introducing a spatial justice perspective to a s…
Governance Deficits in Residential Housing Estates in Ireland
The interpretation and operation of planning guidelines relating to private housing estates in Ireland, and the structures for involving residents in their management thereafter, are examined. Institutional and legislative weaknesses underlying the current approaches to estate management have created a range of governance deficits, with potentially longer-term adverse impacts for the development of a sense of local community and for the promotion…
Eslanda Goode Robeson'sAfrican Journey: The Politics of Identification and Representation in the African Diaspora
Eslanda Robeson, the wife of Paul Robeson, trained as an anthropologist in the 1930s and drew on the field as she contributed to U.S. public discourse on race and racism during the 1940s. Focusing on her 1945 travel narrative, African Journey, and her public lectures, this article describes the ways she constructed an alternative, positive representation of Africa and people of African descent. I examine her work in relation to pan-Africanist act…
Unlikely alliances? Knowledge, power and the collaborative governance of Irish peatlands
They Say She's Different: Race, Gender, Genre, and the Liberated Black Femininity of Betty Davis
Everyday resilience: Rural communities as agents of change in peatland social-ecological systems
The ability to maintain livelihoods in the face of major environmental, political, economic and social stresses is fundamental to building resilient social and ecological communities. This research examines the place community has in this challenge and specifically the role of community involvement in the conservation of peatland social-ecological systems. It explores transformative change at local levels and the relational networks, diverse econ…
Local knowledge and environmentality in legitimacy discourses on Irish peatlands regulation
Black Like This: Race, Generation, and Rock in the Post-Civil Rights Era
In this article, I demonstrate that the intersection of race, class, generation, and education had a decisive impact on African American rock musicians who came of age during the post-civil rights era from the late 1960s to the present. By analyzing life stories, I connect rock musicians' experiences with school desegregation to the position they occupy between black and white mainstreams and discuss how they critique discourses of black authenti…
The Visible Evidence of Cultural Producers
This review discusses anthropological research that analyzes the practices through which individuals and groups produce music, video, film, visual arts, and theater, and the ideological and institutional frameworks within which these processes occur. Viewing these media and popular culture forms as arenas in which social actors struggle over social meanings and as visible evidence of social processes and social relations, this research addresses …
Race and Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture
Race and Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture. Arthur K. Spears. ed. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999. 242 pp., index
Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race
Eslanda Goode Robeson'sAfrican Journey: The Politics of Identification and Representation in the African Diaspora
Eslanda Robeson, the wife of Paul Robeson, trained as an anthropologist in the 1930s and drew on the field as she contributed to U.S. public discourse on race and racism during the 1940s. Focusing on her 1945 travel narrative, African Journey, and her public lectures, this article describes the ways she constructed an alternative, positive representation of Africa and people of African descent. I examine her work in relation to pan-Africanist act…
New populations; shifting expectations: The changing experience of Irish rural space and place
Diasporic Hegemonies: Popular Culture and Transnational Blackness
POPULAR CULTURE AND TRANSNATIONAL BLACKNESS is the second in a series of two dialogues organized by Deborah A. Thomas and Tina M. Campt as part of a project titled "Diasporic Hegemonies." In this dialogue, Maureen Mahon and Lena Sawyer draw from their ethnographic research within the United States and Europe to discuss the role of Africa (and originary "homelands" in general) in imagining diasporic communities in various locations. They also inte…
Civic Engagement and Governance in the Urban-Rural Fringe: Evidence from Ireland
The urban-rural fringe in Ireland harbors diverse and often competing visions of place that unfold against a backdrop of rapid physical and socio-economic change. The desire to develop and articulate a shared sense of belonging rooted in place might be reasonably expected to lead to community-level expression through diverse local organizations. These in turn become embedded in wider institutionalized systems of governance. The importance of plac…
The significance of quality of life and sustainability at the urban–rural fringe in the making of place-based community
Governance Deficits in Residential Housing Estates in Ireland
The interpretation and operation of planning guidelines relating to private housing estates in Ireland, and the structures for involving residents in their management thereafter, are examined. Institutional and legislative weaknesses underlying the current approaches to estate management have created a range of governance deficits, with potentially longer-term adverse impacts for the development of a sense of local community and for the promotion…
Power, Positionality and the View from within: Agricultural Advisers' Role in Implementing Participatory Extension Programmes in the Republic of Ireland
This article examines the experience of implementing a participatory model of public extension advisory programme in the Republic of Ireland. Focusing specifically on the role and experiences of extension advisers, it draws evidence from an evaluation of the ‘Options for Farm Families Programme’. It is argued that, while participatory approaches are increasingly promoted from an institutional perspective, they also raise a number of dilemmas for …
They Say She's Different: Race, Gender, Genre, and the Liberated Black Femininity of Betty Davis
Arranging public support to unfold collaborative modes of governance in rural areas
Music, Power, and Practice
I am aware that, on the eve of the 2012 United States presidential election, it may seem like sidestepping "real politics" and the "real issues" to talk about cultural politics. Still, I want to do so because thinking in terms of cultural politics enables us to examine the ways in which people debate, reproduce, and sometimes change power relations through their engagements with expressive culture. I'll even go so far as to say that through engag…
Protected geographical indications: Institutional roles in food systems governance and rural development
Local knowledge and environmentality in legitimacy discourses on Irish peatlands regulation
Policy drivers of farm succession and inheritance
Creative industries and the creative economy of the West of Ireland: Evidence of sustainable change
Our goal here is to consider how the rise of the creative economy in the west of Ireland can be situated in broader trends of industrial and economic change. This work is based on a number of EU funded projects (Creative Edge; Creative Momentum) that have sought to prove the nature and extent of the creative economy in Europe's most peripheral regions. Here we consider the key traits of a burgeoning economy and question how it fits into (results …
Artists as workers in the rural; precarious livelihoods, sustaining rural futures
The transformative potential of the arts and culture in sustaining rural futures
Unlikely alliances? Knowledge, power and the collaborative governance of Irish peatlands
Rural Arts Festivals as Contributors to Rural Development and Resilience
This article explores how two rural arts festivals, one in the town of Boyle (Boyle Arts Festival), in Western Ireland and the other in the municipality of Mäntyharju, (Salmela Festival) Eastern Finland, contribute to the development of their respective localities and communities via two different models of festival implementation. Both festivals have a major focus on visual art along with other events such as music and enjoy strong reputations f…
Doing Art in the Country
Risky (farm) business: Perceptions of economic risk in farm succession and inheritance
Everyday resilience: Rural communities as agents of change in peatland social-ecological systems
The ability to maintain livelihoods in the face of major environmental, political, economic and social stresses is fundamental to building resilient social and ecological communities. This research examines the place community has in this challenge and specifically the role of community involvement in the conservation of peatland social-ecological systems. It explores transformative change at local levels and the relational networks, diverse econ…
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