P Mcdermott
Biographic Data
| ID | 20862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Mcdermott |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdermott |
| SIGNATURE | MCDERMOTT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6676-903X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Language as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Living Repositories of Knowledge for Tackling Climate Change
In this article, we explore the role that languages can play in addressing climate change. Beginning with a discussion on the 'demotion' of language in the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, we evidence the power of the oral tradition in the transmission of ecological knowledge. Following a brief exploration of the co-relation between linguistic and ecological diversity, we argue for greater recogniti…
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Climate Change: Sustainability and Adaptability in a Time of Crisis
It has now been two decades since UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was adopted. A ground-breaking treaty, the Convention brought recognition of heritage as a living, breathing element of human existence, but has it reached its full potential? This article acts as an introduction to our forum edition on the connection between climate change and intangible cultural heritage (ICH). We consider how debates …
Intracultural dialogue as a precursor to cross-community initiatives: The Irish language among Protestants/unionists in Northern Ireland
While peace agreements are major milestones in ending conflict, the remnants of antagonism often continue well beyond the signing of a ‘text’. Language issues are often far more important for the stability of a post-conflict region than is generally recognised. We focus on Northern Ireland as a case study of a society that has been divided along religious and ethnic lines and where language has reflected these schisms. Drawing on 20 years of fiel…
Migrants, transcultural memory and World War I commemoration in post-conflict Northern Ireland
This article explores a community memory project on World War I led by first-generation migrants living in Northern Ireland. As a location recovering from 30 years of political violence, debates on commemoration are frequently reduced to the bi-partisan lens of Irish nationalism or British unionism. World War I is one episode often interpreted through this exclusivist framework. Recent immigration, however, raises questions as to how those who ar…
When language rights are not enough: Dialogue for reconciliation in post-conflict settings
This article posits a new framework in relation to language rights in post-conflict settings, giving a key position to dialogue, which we see as a multidimensional process central in most reconciliation processes. Yet this notion is seldom utilised with regard to language rights, and subsequently in language policies. Instead, powerful stakeholders such as governments or transnational organisations often consider the introduction of language righ…
Cultural Heritage Across European Borders: Bridges or Walls
Does cultural heritage create either bridges of engagement or walls of division within and beyond Europe? To capture these diverse interpretations, we provide some initial discussion on the concept of heritage and how this relates to identity, memory and the past. In order to introduce the various studies that comprise the forum, we identify a series of collective themes explored by our contributors. These are: the use of heritage sites and pract…
Local Public Service Media in Northern Ireland
Public service media in Northern Ireland has long been a focus for scholarly attention, in particular focusing on how the BBC reported on the “Troubles”, a period in history that led to more than 3,500 people being killed. In addressing local public service media services, and those which are accessible in Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland, this chapter outlines how public service media maintain and support local journalism in the fac…
Language and a Continent in Flux
This article introduces the present forum edition on linguistic identities in twenty-first-century Europe. We consider how discourses of inclusion and exclusion, embedded in discourses of the nation, continue to be relevant in understanding and interpreting the social, cultural and political status of (minority) languages and their speakers. In order to introduce the various studies that comprise this forum, we relay how language debates provide …
From ridicule to legitimacy? ‘Contested languages’ and devolved language planning
In 1999, devolved governance was established in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland which altered the contours of language recognition in the United Kingdom. Whilst much focus has been placed on how devolution improved the status of Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and Irish, less attention has been placed on those minority vernaculars with ‘contested’ linguistic status. Scots in Scotland and Ulster-Scots in Northern Ireland fall into such a category as…
Language rights and the Council of Europe: A failed response to a multilingual continent
Debates on language rights as integral elements of human rights have gathered momentum since the early 1990s. International organisations such as the Council of Europe (CoE) and the United Nations (UN) have advocated linguistic rights through various charters and conventions, albeit with wavering levels of success. This article focuses specifically on the European context and the manner in which the CoE has dealt with language rights in the conti…
Public space, collective memory and intercultural dialogue in a (UK) city of culture
Using the case study of Derry~Londonderry and its designation as ‘UK City of Culture 2013’, the primary objective of this research paper is to critically analyse the challenges associated with the production of a year-long cultural programme in a culturally and politically divided place. Given that Northern Ireland’s second largest city has been understood in terms of a conflict between ‘two traditions’, Irish/Catholic and British/Protestant, we …
Transitional Politics and Language Rights in a Multi-ethnic Northern Ireland: Towards a True Linguistic Pluralism
This paper provides an overview of the deliberations on cultural diversity and language policy that have occurred in Northern Ireland since the onset of the peace process. The paper looks specifically at how policy decisions and political debate on the Irish language and the languages of migrant communities are driven by competing notions of Britishness and Irishness, despite a supposed desire in the Belfast Agreement to promote ‘respect, underst…
Lincoln's Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union
Cohesion, sharing and integration? Migrant languages and cultural spaces in Northern Ireland's urban environment
This article investigates the position of migrant languages in Northern Ireland's two largest cities, Belfast and Derry/Londonderry. The paper comments on how deliberations around public policy objectives in a post-conflict era have led to a broader understanding of cultural identity and consequently to an ‘opening-up’ of urban spaces for speakers of migrant community languages. For such linguistic minorities, museums, libraries, community festiv…
‘Irish isn't spoken here?’ Language policy and planning in Ireland: The Irish language is central to our cultural heritage, both in the north and the south, and its preservation poses major challenges…
A 2003 Irish short film called Yu Ming is Ainm Dom (My name is Yu Ming) by director Daniel O'Hara describes the experiences of a young Chinese man called Yu Ming who comes to Ireland in search of work. As he prepares to leave China he reads in a travel guide that Gaeilge (or Irish) is the first official language of Ireland and therefore sets out on an intensive learning course. On his arrival in Dublin Yu Ming is delighted to see public signage i…
Language and conflict in Northern Ireland and Canada: A silent war
Acquisition, Loss or Multilingualism? Educational Planning for Speakers of Migrant Community Languages in Northern Ireland
Debates surrounding linguistic heritage in Northern Ireland have primarily centred on Irish (Gaelic) and Ulster-Scots. However, closer analysis suggests that there have long been other languages spoken in the region. Cantonese, Mandarin, Polish, Lithuanian and Portuguese are all spoken throughout Northern Ireland as the region experiences large-scale inward migration for the first time since the arrival of Scottish settlers in the 1600s. The fact…
Trends in Local Government: Efficiency, Functions and Democracy
(1999). Trends in Local Government: Efficiency, Functions and Democracy. Political Science: Vol. 50, Local Government in New Zealand, pp. 247-265
Positioning Planning in a Market Economy
The antagonism of neoliberalism to local intervention raises questions over the future of planning theory and practice. Recent reviews suggest planning's response to regulatory reform has been to become more flexible, although this may simply reflect nothing more than instrumental pragmatism. Drawing on regulation theory in this paper I review the reforms which have taken place in New Zealand since 1984, when New Zealand moved sharply from a form…
The Counter‐urbanization Process: Demographic Restructuring and Policy Response in Rural England
The authors examine the impact of counterurbanization in England. They "try and unravel how household turnover and in-migration selectivity are effecting rural change, and how local communities and policy-makers are responding to that change, in a number of villages in East Northamptonshire, a rural district in the heart of 'shire' England." The focus is on the extent to which the incoming households differ from those they replace, thus changing …
Industrial Organisation and Location
Multi National Manufacturing Firms and Regional Development: External Control in the Scottish Electronics Industry
Organisation and industrial location in the United Kingdom
(1978). Organisation and industrial location in the United Kingdom. Regional Studies: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 139-141
Manufacturing organisation and regional employment change
McDermott P. and Keeble D. (1978). Manufacturing organisation and regional employment change, Reg. Studies 12, 247–266. This paper examines the possible impact of spatial variations in firm organisation within the U.K. upon regional employment change in different industries. It discusses regional variations in 1963 plant size by industry, before considering variations in other possible organisational indices, such as workforce composition, and wi…
The Counter‐urbanization Process: Demographic Restructuring and Policy Response in Rural England
The authors examine the impact of counterurbanization in England. They "try and unravel how household turnover and in-migration selectivity are effecting rural change, and how local communities and policy-makers are responding to that change, in a number of villages in East Northamptonshire, a rural district in the heart of 'shire' England." The focus is on the extent to which the incoming households differ from those they replace, thus changing …
Transitional Politics and Language Rights in a Multi-ethnic Northern Ireland: Towards a True Linguistic Pluralism
This paper provides an overview of the deliberations on cultural diversity and language policy that have occurred in Northern Ireland since the onset of the peace process. The paper looks specifically at how policy decisions and political debate on the Irish language and the languages of migrant communities are driven by competing notions of Britishness and Irishness, despite a supposed desire in the Belfast Agreement to promote ‘respect, underst…
Multi National Manufacturing Firms and Regional Development: External Control in the Scottish Electronics Industry
Language rights and the Council of Europe: A failed response to a multilingual continent
Debates on language rights as integral elements of human rights have gathered momentum since the early 1990s. International organisations such as the Council of Europe (CoE) and the United Nations (UN) have advocated linguistic rights through various charters and conventions, albeit with wavering levels of success. This article focuses specifically on the European context and the manner in which the CoE has dealt with language rights in the conti…
Cohesion, sharing and integration? Migrant languages and cultural spaces in Northern Ireland's urban environment
This article investigates the position of migrant languages in Northern Ireland's two largest cities, Belfast and Derry/Londonderry. The paper comments on how deliberations around public policy objectives in a post-conflict era have led to a broader understanding of cultural identity and consequently to an ‘opening-up’ of urban spaces for speakers of migrant community languages. For such linguistic minorities, museums, libraries, community festiv…
Manufacturing organisation and regional employment change
McDermott P. and Keeble D. (1978). Manufacturing organisation and regional employment change, Reg. Studies 12, 247–266. This paper examines the possible impact of spatial variations in firm organisation within the U.K. upon regional employment change in different industries. It discusses regional variations in 1963 plant size by industry, before considering variations in other possible organisational indices, such as workforce composition, and wi…
From ridicule to legitimacy? ‘Contested languages’ and devolved language planning
In 1999, devolved governance was established in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland which altered the contours of language recognition in the United Kingdom. Whilst much focus has been placed on how devolution improved the status of Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and Irish, less attention has been placed on those minority vernaculars with ‘contested’ linguistic status. Scots in Scotland and Ulster-Scots in Northern Ireland fall into such a category as…
Trends in Local Government: Efficiency, Functions and Democracy
(1999). Trends in Local Government: Efficiency, Functions and Democracy. Political Science: Vol. 50, Local Government in New Zealand, pp. 247-265
Organisation and industrial location in the United Kingdom
(1978). Organisation and industrial location in the United Kingdom. Regional Studies: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 139-141
Migrants, transcultural memory and World War I commemoration in post-conflict Northern Ireland
This article explores a community memory project on World War I led by first-generation migrants living in Northern Ireland. As a location recovering from 30 years of political violence, debates on commemoration are frequently reduced to the bi-partisan lens of Irish nationalism or British unionism. World War I is one episode often interpreted through this exclusivist framework. Recent immigration, however, raises questions as to how those who ar…
Acquisition, Loss or Multilingualism? Educational Planning for Speakers of Migrant Community Languages in Northern Ireland
Debates surrounding linguistic heritage in Northern Ireland have primarily centred on Irish (Gaelic) and Ulster-Scots. However, closer analysis suggests that there have long been other languages spoken in the region. Cantonese, Mandarin, Polish, Lithuanian and Portuguese are all spoken throughout Northern Ireland as the region experiences large-scale inward migration for the first time since the arrival of Scottish settlers in the 1600s. The fact…
Positioning Planning in a Market Economy
The antagonism of neoliberalism to local intervention raises questions over the future of planning theory and practice. Recent reviews suggest planning's response to regulatory reform has been to become more flexible, although this may simply reflect nothing more than instrumental pragmatism. Drawing on regulation theory in this paper I review the reforms which have taken place in New Zealand since 1984, when New Zealand moved sharply from a form…
Organisation and industrial location in the United Kingdom
(1978). Organisation and industrial location in the United Kingdom. Regional Studies: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 139-141
Manufacturing organisation and regional employment change
McDermott P. and Keeble D. (1978). Manufacturing organisation and regional employment change, Reg. Studies 12, 247–266. This paper examines the possible impact of spatial variations in firm organisation within the U.K. upon regional employment change in different industries. It discusses regional variations in 1963 plant size by industry, before considering variations in other possible organisational indices, such as workforce composition, and wi…
Multi National Manufacturing Firms and Regional Development: External Control in the Scottish Electronics Industry
Industrial Organisation and Location
The Counter‐urbanization Process: Demographic Restructuring and Policy Response in Rural England
The authors examine the impact of counterurbanization in England. They "try and unravel how household turnover and in-migration selectivity are effecting rural change, and how local communities and policy-makers are responding to that change, in a number of villages in East Northamptonshire, a rural district in the heart of 'shire' England." The focus is on the extent to which the incoming households differ from those they replace, thus changing …
Positioning Planning in a Market Economy
The antagonism of neoliberalism to local intervention raises questions over the future of planning theory and practice. Recent reviews suggest planning's response to regulatory reform has been to become more flexible, although this may simply reflect nothing more than instrumental pragmatism. Drawing on regulation theory in this paper I review the reforms which have taken place in New Zealand since 1984, when New Zealand moved sharply from a form…
Trends in Local Government: Efficiency, Functions and Democracy
(1999). Trends in Local Government: Efficiency, Functions and Democracy. Political Science: Vol. 50, Local Government in New Zealand, pp. 247-265
Acquisition, Loss or Multilingualism? Educational Planning for Speakers of Migrant Community Languages in Northern Ireland
Debates surrounding linguistic heritage in Northern Ireland have primarily centred on Irish (Gaelic) and Ulster-Scots. However, closer analysis suggests that there have long been other languages spoken in the region. Cantonese, Mandarin, Polish, Lithuanian and Portuguese are all spoken throughout Northern Ireland as the region experiences large-scale inward migration for the first time since the arrival of Scottish settlers in the 1600s. The fact…
‘Irish isn't spoken here?’ Language policy and planning in Ireland: The Irish language is central to our cultural heritage, both in the north and the south, and its preservation poses major challenges…
A 2003 Irish short film called Yu Ming is Ainm Dom (My name is Yu Ming) by director Daniel O'Hara describes the experiences of a young Chinese man called Yu Ming who comes to Ireland in search of work. As he prepares to leave China he reads in a travel guide that Gaeilge (or Irish) is the first official language of Ireland and therefore sets out on an intensive learning course. On his arrival in Dublin Yu Ming is delighted to see public signage i…
Language and conflict in Northern Ireland and Canada: A silent war
Cohesion, sharing and integration? Migrant languages and cultural spaces in Northern Ireland's urban environment
This article investigates the position of migrant languages in Northern Ireland's two largest cities, Belfast and Derry/Londonderry. The paper comments on how deliberations around public policy objectives in a post-conflict era have led to a broader understanding of cultural identity and consequently to an ‘opening-up’ of urban spaces for speakers of migrant community languages. For such linguistic minorities, museums, libraries, community festiv…
Transitional Politics and Language Rights in a Multi-ethnic Northern Ireland: Towards a True Linguistic Pluralism
This paper provides an overview of the deliberations on cultural diversity and language policy that have occurred in Northern Ireland since the onset of the peace process. The paper looks specifically at how policy decisions and political debate on the Irish language and the languages of migrant communities are driven by competing notions of Britishness and Irishness, despite a supposed desire in the Belfast Agreement to promote ‘respect, underst…
Lincoln's Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union
Public space, collective memory and intercultural dialogue in a (UK) city of culture
Using the case study of Derry~Londonderry and its designation as ‘UK City of Culture 2013’, the primary objective of this research paper is to critically analyse the challenges associated with the production of a year-long cultural programme in a culturally and politically divided place. Given that Northern Ireland’s second largest city has been understood in terms of a conflict between ‘two traditions’, Irish/Catholic and British/Protestant, we …
Language rights and the Council of Europe: A failed response to a multilingual continent
Debates on language rights as integral elements of human rights have gathered momentum since the early 1990s. International organisations such as the Council of Europe (CoE) and the United Nations (UN) have advocated linguistic rights through various charters and conventions, albeit with wavering levels of success. This article focuses specifically on the European context and the manner in which the CoE has dealt with language rights in the conti…
From ridicule to legitimacy? ‘Contested languages’ and devolved language planning
In 1999, devolved governance was established in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland which altered the contours of language recognition in the United Kingdom. Whilst much focus has been placed on how devolution improved the status of Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and Irish, less attention has been placed on those minority vernaculars with ‘contested’ linguistic status. Scots in Scotland and Ulster-Scots in Northern Ireland fall into such a category as…
Language and a Continent in Flux
This article introduces the present forum edition on linguistic identities in twenty-first-century Europe. We consider how discourses of inclusion and exclusion, embedded in discourses of the nation, continue to be relevant in understanding and interpreting the social, cultural and political status of (minority) languages and their speakers. In order to introduce the various studies that comprise this forum, we relay how language debates provide …
Local Public Service Media in Northern Ireland
Public service media in Northern Ireland has long been a focus for scholarly attention, in particular focusing on how the BBC reported on the “Troubles”, a period in history that led to more than 3,500 people being killed. In addressing local public service media services, and those which are accessible in Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland, this chapter outlines how public service media maintain and support local journalism in the fac…
Cultural Heritage Across European Borders: Bridges or Walls
Does cultural heritage create either bridges of engagement or walls of division within and beyond Europe? To capture these diverse interpretations, we provide some initial discussion on the concept of heritage and how this relates to identity, memory and the past. In order to introduce the various studies that comprise the forum, we identify a series of collective themes explored by our contributors. These are: the use of heritage sites and pract…
When language rights are not enough: Dialogue for reconciliation in post-conflict settings
This article posits a new framework in relation to language rights in post-conflict settings, giving a key position to dialogue, which we see as a multidimensional process central in most reconciliation processes. Yet this notion is seldom utilised with regard to language rights, and subsequently in language policies. Instead, powerful stakeholders such as governments or transnational organisations often consider the introduction of language righ…
Intracultural dialogue as a precursor to cross-community initiatives: The Irish language among Protestants/unionists in Northern Ireland
While peace agreements are major milestones in ending conflict, the remnants of antagonism often continue well beyond the signing of a ‘text’. Language issues are often far more important for the stability of a post-conflict region than is generally recognised. We focus on Northern Ireland as a case study of a society that has been divided along religious and ethnic lines and where language has reflected these schisms. Drawing on 20 years of fiel…
Migrants, transcultural memory and World War I commemoration in post-conflict Northern Ireland
This article explores a community memory project on World War I led by first-generation migrants living in Northern Ireland. As a location recovering from 30 years of political violence, debates on commemoration are frequently reduced to the bi-partisan lens of Irish nationalism or British unionism. World War I is one episode often interpreted through this exclusivist framework. Recent immigration, however, raises questions as to how those who ar…
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Climate Change: Sustainability and Adaptability in a Time of Crisis
It has now been two decades since UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was adopted. A ground-breaking treaty, the Convention brought recognition of heritage as a living, breathing element of human existence, but has it reached its full potential? This article acts as an introduction to our forum edition on the connection between climate change and intangible cultural heritage (ICH). We consider how debates …
Language as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Living Repositories of Knowledge for Tackling Climate Change
In this article, we explore the role that languages can play in addressing climate change. Beginning with a discussion on the 'demotion' of language in the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, we evidence the power of the oral tradition in the transmission of ecological knowledge. Following a brief exploration of the co-relation between linguistic and ecological diversity, we argue for greater recogniti…
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