Rosie R Meade
Biographic Data
| ID | 225696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosie R Meade |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosie R |
| FAMILY NAME | Meade |
| SIGNATURE | MEADE R R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4416-6411 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On writing about collective action
This intervention outlines some questions and thoughts about collective action, regarding how we write or think about it, and what we expect it to do, that I am struggling with at this conjuncture. It offers critical reflections on the very categories and terminology we use, and the risks of reifying ‘activist’ and ‘academic’ identities or roles. It challenges the expectation that social movements and community activism are or should be fountains…
Deaths of Despair in Irish Prisons and Beyond
In the Republic of Ireland, the Prison Service is officially charged with ensuring the safety, security and dignity of the people who are imprisoned within its institutions and with creating an environment that facilitates rehabilitation. This article argues that this mission is substantively undermined by the necropolitical forces at work in and around Irish prisons. Written just as the Irish government plans to embark on the largest prison expa…
Planetary Necropolitics
From the Bog to the Cloud—Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland
Constituting and defending ‘everyday’ rentiers
Cruel optimism” in the universities
The article illuminates how gender inequality in Ireland's higher education sector continues to be constituted at policy and at local institutional levels as a problem that requires ‘fixing the women”. It analyses two gender equality projects' discursive materials targeting female academics in Irish universities, showing that while these projects embrace elements of feminist praxis and critique, they ultimately propagate “cruel optimism”. They do…
(Neo)Liberal populism and Ireland's 'squeezed middle
Acknowledging definitional problems associated with the concept of 'populism', this article shifts the analytic gaze away from actors or politics that are conventionally characterised as populist, on to an analysis of the doing of populism by those who typically evade the populist label. Tracing the discursive construction of the 'squeezed middle' in Irish mainstream media and parliamentary debates between January 2014 and March 2019, the authors…
The re-signification of state-funded community development in Ireland
This article analyses the changing rationalities and techniques through which the Irish state seeks to govern community development; specifically, how the displacement of its flagship Community Development Programme by the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme has been justified and operationalised. Adopting a governmentality perspective, it explains how community development came to be constructed as an anti-poverty strategy and wh…
Politics, Power and Community Development
Presenting unique and critical reflections on international policy and practice, this book addresses the global dominance of neoliberalism. It examines the extent to which community development practitioners, activists and programmes can challenge, critique, engage with or resist its influence.
Government and Community Development in Ireland
This paper historicises the recent and ongoing professionalisation of community development in the Republic of Ireland. The term professionalisation refers both to the designation and accreditation of a distinctive community work occupation and a wider set of processes that effect more strategic approaches to the planning, delivery and evaluation of community organisations. The paper reviews some tensions associated with professionalisation; tens…
We hate it here, please let us stay! Irish social partnership and the community/voluntary sector’s conflicted experiences of recognition
This article critically assesses the outcomes of community and voluntary sector participation in the partnership processes that have dominated the Irish social policy scene for the last decade. As community organizations have embraced the state sponsored corporatist project in both its local and national manifestations, they have been given official recognition by government as de facto representatives of the socially excluded. State policy disco…
We hate it here, please let us stay! Irish social partnership and the community/voluntary sector’s conflicted experiences of recognition
This article critically assesses the outcomes of community and voluntary sector participation in the partnership processes that have dominated the Irish social policy scene for the last decade. As community organizations have embraced the state sponsored corporatist project in both its local and national manifestations, they have been given official recognition by government as de facto representatives of the socially excluded. State policy disco…
The re-signification of state-funded community development in Ireland
This article analyses the changing rationalities and techniques through which the Irish state seeks to govern community development; specifically, how the displacement of its flagship Community Development Programme by the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme has been justified and operationalised. Adopting a governmentality perspective, it explains how community development came to be constructed as an anti-poverty strategy and wh…
Government and Community Development in Ireland
This paper historicises the recent and ongoing professionalisation of community development in the Republic of Ireland. The term professionalisation refers both to the designation and accreditation of a distinctive community work occupation and a wider set of processes that effect more strategic approaches to the planning, delivery and evaluation of community organisations. The paper reviews some tensions associated with professionalisation; tens…
(Neo)Liberal populism and Ireland's 'squeezed middle
Acknowledging definitional problems associated with the concept of 'populism', this article shifts the analytic gaze away from actors or politics that are conventionally characterised as populist, on to an analysis of the doing of populism by those who typically evade the populist label. Tracing the discursive construction of the 'squeezed middle' in Irish mainstream media and parliamentary debates between January 2014 and March 2019, the authors…
Cruel optimism” in the universities
The article illuminates how gender inequality in Ireland's higher education sector continues to be constituted at policy and at local institutional levels as a problem that requires ‘fixing the women”. It analyses two gender equality projects' discursive materials targeting female academics in Irish universities, showing that while these projects embrace elements of feminist praxis and critique, they ultimately propagate “cruel optimism”. They do…
We hate it here, please let us stay! Irish social partnership and the community/voluntary sector’s conflicted experiences of recognition
This article critically assesses the outcomes of community and voluntary sector participation in the partnership processes that have dominated the Irish social policy scene for the last decade. As community organizations have embraced the state sponsored corporatist project in both its local and national manifestations, they have been given official recognition by government as de facto representatives of the socially excluded. State policy disco…
Government and Community Development in Ireland
This paper historicises the recent and ongoing professionalisation of community development in the Republic of Ireland. The term professionalisation refers both to the designation and accreditation of a distinctive community work occupation and a wider set of processes that effect more strategic approaches to the planning, delivery and evaluation of community organisations. The paper reviews some tensions associated with professionalisation; tens…
Politics, Power and Community Development
Presenting unique and critical reflections on international policy and practice, this book addresses the global dominance of neoliberalism. It examines the extent to which community development practitioners, activists and programmes can challenge, critique, engage with or resist its influence.
The re-signification of state-funded community development in Ireland
This article analyses the changing rationalities and techniques through which the Irish state seeks to govern community development; specifically, how the displacement of its flagship Community Development Programme by the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme has been justified and operationalised. Adopting a governmentality perspective, it explains how community development came to be constructed as an anti-poverty strategy and wh…
(Neo)Liberal populism and Ireland's 'squeezed middle
Acknowledging definitional problems associated with the concept of 'populism', this article shifts the analytic gaze away from actors or politics that are conventionally characterised as populist, on to an analysis of the doing of populism by those who typically evade the populist label. Tracing the discursive construction of the 'squeezed middle' in Irish mainstream media and parliamentary debates between January 2014 and March 2019, the authors…
Cruel optimism” in the universities
The article illuminates how gender inequality in Ireland's higher education sector continues to be constituted at policy and at local institutional levels as a problem that requires ‘fixing the women”. It analyses two gender equality projects' discursive materials targeting female academics in Irish universities, showing that while these projects embrace elements of feminist praxis and critique, they ultimately propagate “cruel optimism”. They do…
Constituting and defending ‘everyday’ rentiers
On writing about collective action
This intervention outlines some questions and thoughts about collective action, regarding how we write or think about it, and what we expect it to do, that I am struggling with at this conjuncture. It offers critical reflections on the very categories and terminology we use, and the risks of reifying ‘activist’ and ‘academic’ identities or roles. It challenges the expectation that social movements and community activism are or should be fountains…
Deaths of Despair in Irish Prisons and Beyond
In the Republic of Ireland, the Prison Service is officially charged with ensuring the safety, security and dignity of the people who are imprisoned within its institutions and with creating an environment that facilitates rehabilitation. This article argues that this mission is substantively undermined by the necropolitical forces at work in and around Irish prisons. Written just as the Irish government plans to embark on the largest prison expa…
Planetary Necropolitics
From the Bog to the Cloud—Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland
Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Irish (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Government (linguistics (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works)