Michael O’brien

Biographic Data

ID3585635
NAMEMichael O’brien
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMEO’brien
SIGNATUREO’BRIEN M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Auckland
ORCID0000-0003-4555-080X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS54
TOTAL CITATIONS67
AUTHOR COUNT54
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • The illusion of social improvements: A case study of the role of Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) in fairwashing the UK Nephrops fishery

    Open AccessJessica L Decker Sparks, Natalie Somers et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2025

    Fishery improvement projects (FIPs) are attempting to manage the labor dimensions of social responsibility through non-binding mechanisms that directly contradict the tenets of worker-centered approaches. Using the UK Nephrops FIP as a case study, we combined data from worker grievances reported to trade unions, government agencies, and researchers to demonstrate how the FIP concealed several cases of potential forced labor, in addition to other …

  • Political to Personal: Shifts in Youths’ Attitudes Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential Race and Election

    Open AccessMichael O’brien, Michael D O’Brien et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2021Cited by: 1References: 8

    Sociopolitical events have been associated with shifts in youth mental health and attitudes. This study assessed six cohorts of American 12th graders (2012-2017) to examine trends in youths' attitudes about themselves, the future, and others surrounding the U.S. 2016 presidential race and election. Analyses assessed overall trends and variation by political affiliation. Results indicated a rise across cohorts in future pessimism and nihilism afte…

  • The impact of national context on future care planning for Korean parents in Korea and in New Zealand caring for their children living with disabilities: A cross-national study

    Open AccessClara Jung Won Choi, Michael O’brien et al.ARTICLEInternational Social Work2020References: 1

    An increasing concern of families caring for children living with disabilities is related to planning for their future care. This qualitative study explores how the country contexts shape the plans for future care provision of Korean parents in New Zealand and Korea. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews with parents ( n = 18) and professionals ( n = 18). The study revealed that there are differences and similarities regarding the …

  • Social Investment in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Meaning and Implications

    Open AccessMichael O’brienARTICLESocial Sciences2020Cited by: 3References: 20

    Social investment has been the leit motif for the development of a range of social service provisions in Aotearoa/New Zealand for the last decade. It involves a particular approach, using data to target decisions and inform directions for such key areas as social security, care and protection of children and delivery of social services. There are serious questions about the statistical base which informs the approach and the implications for disa…

  • Doing Murga, Undoing Gender: Feminist Carnival in Argentina

    Open AccessJulia Mcreynolds-Pérez, Michael S O’brien et al.ARTICLEGender & Society2020Cited by: 1References: 26

    Murga porteña, the satirical street theatre tradition associated with Carnival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is historically a strongly patriarchal institution. Prominent roles such as reciting poetry, singing, and playing percussion instruments have been reserved exclusively for men. As the feminist movement in Argentina has grown in visibility and importance in recent years, feminist murga participants disrupted these patriarchal patterns. Women …

  • The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941

    Open AccessMichael O’brien, Michael O'BrienBOOKIdea of the American South,…2019

    Between the wars, the South was not only different but, as Dr. O'Brien shows, felt itself to be so. His book focuses on the thinking of those Southern intellectuals who attempted in different ways to single out the essentials of Southernism

  • The impact of familism on future care planning for Korean parents caring for their children living with disabilities

    Clara Jung Won Choi, Michael O’brienARTICLEAsia Pacific Journal of Social…2019References: 4

    Future care provision is a pervasive concern of parents with children living with disabilities. This article aims to provide an overview of the impact of familism on future care planning for Korean parents. For this qualitative study, data were collected using semi-structured interviews with parents (n = 9) and professionals (n = 9). Using conventional analysis, the study revealed there is strong emphasis on familial care with minimal governmenta…

  • Secular Trends in Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: Growing Disparities between Advantaged and Disadvantaged Schools

    Open AccessR L Coley, Michael O’brien et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2019Cited by: 4References: 26

  • Workplace bullying and redress procedures: Experiences of teachers in Ireland

    Open AccessPatricia Mannix Mcnamara, Patricia Mcnamara et al.ARTICLEQualitative Research in…2018

    Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the experiences of redress seeking and organisational responses for targets of bullying. Design/methodology/approach A phenomenological research design was adopted. In total, 22 primary teachers (seven males, 15 females) in Ireland were self-selected for interview, following an advertisement detailing the study in a national teacher union magazine. Data were analysed utilising an interpretative pheno…

  • The relationship between ethnicity and fertility in New Zealand

    Open AccessPoutasi W B Urale, Michael O’brien et al.ARTICLEKōtuitui New Zealand Journal of…2018Cited by: 4References: 4

    While there is a global shift towards smaller families, some groups maintain relatively high fertility rates. The 2013 New Zealand census data were used to investigate the nature of fertility between ethnicities in New Zealand. The NZ Deprivation Index 2013 was used as a measure of socioeconomic status to determine the relationships with fertility. The results mirror research outside of New Zealand in that socioeconomic status is inversely correl…

  • El bombo loco: Sounding Alterity and Populism in Buenos Aires

    Michael S O’brien, Michael O’brienARTICLEEthnomusicology2018Cited by: 1References: 21

    The bombo con platillo, a double-headed bass drum with a mounted cymbal, is a potent icon of murga porteña, a genre of Carnival art from Buenos Aires, Argentina. The instrument also has strong associations with other marginalized popular activities: soccer fandom and Peronist political demonstration. These historical associations alone are not sufficient to account for the drum's importance, however. This ethnographic account considers the social…

  • What’s your agenda? Reflective supervision in community-based child welfare services

    Matt Rankine, Liz Beddoe et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social Work2017Cited by: 4References: 11

    The provision of community-based child welfare services (CCW) in a managerialist climate in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) necessitates constantly renegotiated contractual partnerships, service targeting and measured outcomes. Reflective supervision is essential to counter the perceived negative impacts of managerialism on CCW work. Within this environment, there is a struggle to ensure supervision provides reflective spaces for social workers to dev…

  • This is What Democracy Sounds Like: Live and Mediated Soundscapes of the Wisconsin Uprising

    Open AccessMichael O’brienARTICLEMusic and Politics2014References: 2

    The Wisconsin Uprising, a movement of pro-labor activism that broke out in early 2011 in response to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's proposed union-busting "Budget Repair Bill," was exceptional in its intensity and breadth, attracting tens of thousands of protesters to the state capitol over weeks and culminating in recall elections for nearly a dozen elected officials of both parties.The movement was also exceptional for its central and innova…

  • Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/ N ew Z ealand: From Citizen to Managed Worker

    Open AccessMichael O’brien, Michael O'BrienARTICLESocial Policy and Administration2013Cited by: 3References: 13

    Active citizenship, obligations and growing surveillance have been key dimensions of the changing approach to welfare in N ew Z ealand over the last 30 years; this article explores these changes and some of their implications. In a context of growing inequality and poverty, the emphasis has been placed on beneficiary responsibilities rather than rights. Increased participation in paid work, associated with a critical approach to ‘benefit dependen…

  • Child poverty and child rights meet active citizenship: A New Zealand and Sweden case study

    Open AccessMichael O’brien, Michael O''Brien et al.ARTICLEChildhood2011Cited by: 4References: 22

    Children's rights and active citizenship have been significant policy emphases and developments in recent years but the relationship between the two has not been actively explored in relation to the implications for child poverty. Recent policy developments in New Zealand and Sweden are drawn on here to explore this relationship. The article argues that an emphasis on active citizenship does not lead to improvement of rights for all children. Too…

  • Mum's Got To Sell The House

    Michael O’brienARTICLEPhotographies2010References: 6

    This visual essay reports on the production of the photographic text Mum's got to sell the house. The project arose from qualitative action research based upon the strategies of collaborative memory work within the family. The analysis of the project presented here posits that the photograph, and indeed the practice of photography, can be positively understood as the site for the production and representation of memory, one which is future orient…

  • The conceptualization and measurement of need: A key to guiding policy and practice in children's services

    Open AccessMichael O’brienARTICLEChild & Family Social Work2010Cited by: 2References: 8

    Effective services for children must be grounded in the sound conceptualization and measurement of need. The concept of need is often misunderstood because it is used in different ways. Defining need as both a requisite and a goal is desirable. The conceptualization ought to rest on an acceptance that not only are objective and universal needs to attain physical health and autonomy requirements for all human beings, but subjective needs may also …

  • Estudios sobre la obra de Astor Piazzolla (review)

    Michael O’brienARTICLELatin American Music Review2010

  • Social justice: Alive and well (partly) in social work practice

    Open AccessMichael O’brien, Mike O'BrienARTICLEInternational Social Work2010Cited by: 33References: 2

    This research with social work practitioners explores ways in which social justice ideas are reflected at different levels of social work practice. Social justice is actively drawn on in practice, but primarily at the level of daily practice and is less actively utilized at the macro level of change

  • Tango: Creation of a Cultural Icon (review)

    Michael O’brien, Michael S O'Brien Michael S O'BrienARTICLELatin American Music Review2009

    Reviewed by: Tango: Creation of a Cultural Icon Michael S. O'Brien Jo Baim. Tango: Creation of a Cultural Icon. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. 204 pp. Black and white images, musical transcriptions, appendices, index. I received Jo Baim's new contribution to the tango literature with high expectations. Baim is an organist and freelance choreographer who has formally studied tango dance and holds a PhD in musicology from the Universi…

  • Victorian Piety Practiced

    Open AccessMichael O’brienARTICLEModern Intellectual History2008References: 7

    For some time, there has been reason for imagining that we live in neo-Victorian times. We are awash in restless evangelicals, profligate of stern and apocalyptic advice. We have had praying leaders who imagine that foreigners, usually with beards, require reform and invasion. Celts threaten secession and the Union is extolled. There is much talk of families, education, and the anxieties of class. Our novels grow long and vexed, and even have plo…

  • Amoralities Not for Turning: Response to Cotkin

    Michael O’brien, Michael O'BrienARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas2008

    It is suggested that George Cotkin's essay is unpersuasive in its two central claims. Firstly, the evidence is not persuasive that there has been a discernible "moral turn" among historians in the last two decades; rather, it is argued that an engagement with morality has been fairly constant in historical scholarship since its ancient origins. Secondly, it is felt that Cotkin is evasive on whether he wishes historians merely to have opinions abo…

  • Poverty, policy and the state: The changing face of social security

    Open AccessMichael O’brien, Mike O’brien et al.BOOKPoverty, Policy and the State2007

  • Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860. Volumes I and II

    John W Quist, Michael O’brien et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2007

  • Cristofori, Bartolomeo

    M J O''Brien, Michael O’brienCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001