Marie Moran
Biographic Data
| ID | 3975773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marie Moran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Moran |
| SIGNATURE | MORAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1146-361X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Clarifying and Enhancing the Role of Equality in Youth Work Ethics: The Case for an Equality Studies Approach
Implicitly or explicitly, youth work practitioners, scholars and advocates typically invoke a set of egalitarian values to explain, justify and promote the ethical basis of their work. Despite such commitments, there exists conceptual ambiguity surrounding equality across much of the youth work literature which has significant consequences for how youth work is framed and defended. This article introduces the interdisciplinary field of Equality S…
Rethinking the Concept of a 'Financial Elite: A Critical Intervention
While the concept of a 'financial elite' has become prominent within politics and the social sciences, it is not clear what value it holds for the analysis of inequalities of income, wealth and power under financial capitalism. Who are the financial elite, and what distinguishes them from other economically powerful groups? We delineate 'distributive', 'categorical' and 'relational' approaches to financial elites, arguing that various unresolved …
Keywords as method
This short essay seeks to restore the keywords approach initiated by Williams to a more central place within the cultural materialist paradigm he also developed. Combining Williams’ cultural materialist account of language with the practical orientation of Keywords, it sketches a way of developing the keywords approach as a method of sociocultural analysis. Drawing on some practical examples, it offers ‘keywords-as-method’ as a means of carrying …
The student experience' and the remaking of contemporary studenthood: A critical intervention
The student experience' is a formulation that will be familiar to many reading this article; increasingly the term has come to stand in for an imprecise set of values and practices around higher education study. Despite the fuzziness that characterises its use, 'student experience talk' has gained traction in education policy and rankings, academic research, and amongst students themselves. After initially drawing from Raymond Williams to situate…
Tory stories’: Arguing for a critical cultural populism, again
Cultural populism in new populist times
This article unpacks the concept of ‘cultural populism’ in multiple ways, and explores its value for the critical analysis of new formations and expressions of populism in the current conjuncture. Taking Jim McGuigan’s influential book, Cultural Populism, as our point of departure, we begin by exploring its earlier use in cultural studies as a critical term for apolitical/celebratory modes of analysis, and then argue it may be usefully extended t…
Williams, Raymond (1921–1988)
Raymond Williams (1921–1988) was Britain's greatest socialist intellectual of the twentieth century. His Welsh working‐class background and sense of community always inflected his work as a theorist, novelist, and dramatist. Moreover, he developed and revised his thinking over time, influenced by western Marxism but always motivated by the critical possibility of a “common culture” facilitated by an educated and participatory democracy, including…
(Un)troubling identity politics: A cultural materialist intervention
This article draws on the cultural materialist paradigm articulated by Raymond Williams to offer a radical historicization of the idea of identity, with a view to clarifying and resolving some of the issues animating the 'identity politics' debates currently dividing left academia and activism. First, it offers clarity on the concept 'identity politics', demonstrating that we should reserve the term to refer only to politics that mobilize specifi…
Identity and Identity Politics: A Cultural-Materialist History
This paper draws on the cultural-materialist paradigm articulated by Raymond Williams to offer a radical historicisation of identity and identity-politics in capitalist societies. A keywords analysis reveals surprisingly that identity, as it is elaborated in the familiar categories of personal and social identity, is a relatively novel concept in Western thought, politics and culture. The claim is not the standard one that people’s ‘identities’ b…
Identity and Capitalism
Against the common assumption that identity 'always mattered', Marie Moran shows that what we now think of routinely as 'personal identity' actually only emerged with the explosion of consumption in the late 20th century
Rethinking “culture”: A cultural-materialist account of social space
Studies in sociology and political economy typically depend on a shared, problematic vision of social space; what I call the “separate spheres” model, which divides social space into discrete, quasi-geographical bounded domains labelled “culture”, “economy”, “politics” and so on. Where this “separate spheres” model underpins and informs theoretical or empirical work, it creates various analytical difficulties, including, historically, the treatme…
Raymond Williams and Sociology
The purpose of this article is to recover Williams as a major theoretical inspiration for the social sciences, specifically, as the inaugurator of what might be regarded as a research paradigm, cultural materialism. In the first section, Williams's encounter with the discipline of sociology is traced and distinguished as a critical alternative to the presently ascendant - at least in the USA - neo-Durkeimian school of 'cultural sociology'. In the…
The social impact of the arts: An intellectual history
by Eleonora Belfiore and Oliver Bennett, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 248 pp., £18.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-230-27351-1 In The Social Impact of the Arts: An Intellectual History, Eleono
Markets, schools and the convertibility of economic capital: The complex dynamics of class choice
While economic capital is not synonymous with cultural, social or symbolic capital in either its constitutional or organizational form, it nevertheless remains the more flexible and convertible form of capital. The convertibility of economic capital has particular resonance within ‘Celtic Tiger’ Ireland. The state’s reluctance to fully endorse an internal market between schools has resulted in middle‐class parents using their private wealth to cr…
Social Inclusion and the Limits of Pragmatic Liberalism: The Irish Case
Since the 1990s, Irish public policy has been framed by a concern with social inclusion. While the idea of social inclusion has considerable potential from the point of view of social justice, critical engagement with the concept reveals it to mask and justify more regressive political agendas. This paper maps the competing models of inclusion operational in Irish social policy, and reconceptualises them in terms of a ‘narrow’ version of inclusio…
Markets, schools and the convertibility of economic capital: The complex dynamics of class choice
While economic capital is not synonymous with cultural, social or symbolic capital in either its constitutional or organizational form, it nevertheless remains the more flexible and convertible form of capital. The convertibility of economic capital has particular resonance within ‘Celtic Tiger’ Ireland. The state’s reluctance to fully endorse an internal market between schools has resulted in middle‐class parents using their private wealth to cr…
The student experience' and the remaking of contemporary studenthood: A critical intervention
The student experience' is a formulation that will be familiar to many reading this article; increasingly the term has come to stand in for an imprecise set of values and practices around higher education study. Despite the fuzziness that characterises its use, 'student experience talk' has gained traction in education policy and rankings, academic research, and amongst students themselves. After initially drawing from Raymond Williams to situate…
Keywords as method
This short essay seeks to restore the keywords approach initiated by Williams to a more central place within the cultural materialist paradigm he also developed. Combining Williams’ cultural materialist account of language with the practical orientation of Keywords, it sketches a way of developing the keywords approach as a method of sociocultural analysis. Drawing on some practical examples, it offers ‘keywords-as-method’ as a means of carrying …
(Un)troubling identity politics: A cultural materialist intervention
This article draws on the cultural materialist paradigm articulated by Raymond Williams to offer a radical historicization of the idea of identity, with a view to clarifying and resolving some of the issues animating the 'identity politics' debates currently dividing left academia and activism. First, it offers clarity on the concept 'identity politics', demonstrating that we should reserve the term to refer only to politics that mobilize specifi…
Identity and Identity Politics: A Cultural-Materialist History
This paper draws on the cultural-materialist paradigm articulated by Raymond Williams to offer a radical historicisation of identity and identity-politics in capitalist societies. A keywords analysis reveals surprisingly that identity, as it is elaborated in the familiar categories of personal and social identity, is a relatively novel concept in Western thought, politics and culture. The claim is not the standard one that people’s ‘identities’ b…
Cultural populism in new populist times
This article unpacks the concept of ‘cultural populism’ in multiple ways, and explores its value for the critical analysis of new formations and expressions of populism in the current conjuncture. Taking Jim McGuigan’s influential book, Cultural Populism, as our point of departure, we begin by exploring its earlier use in cultural studies as a critical term for apolitical/celebratory modes of analysis, and then argue it may be usefully extended t…
Raymond Williams and Sociology
The purpose of this article is to recover Williams as a major theoretical inspiration for the social sciences, specifically, as the inaugurator of what might be regarded as a research paradigm, cultural materialism. In the first section, Williams's encounter with the discipline of sociology is traced and distinguished as a critical alternative to the presently ascendant - at least in the USA - neo-Durkeimian school of 'cultural sociology'. In the…
Tory stories’: Arguing for a critical cultural populism, again
Social Inclusion and the Limits of Pragmatic Liberalism: The Irish Case
Since the 1990s, Irish public policy has been framed by a concern with social inclusion. While the idea of social inclusion has considerable potential from the point of view of social justice, critical engagement with the concept reveals it to mask and justify more regressive political agendas. This paper maps the competing models of inclusion operational in Irish social policy, and reconceptualises them in terms of a ‘narrow’ version of inclusio…
Rethinking the Concept of a 'Financial Elite: A Critical Intervention
While the concept of a 'financial elite' has become prominent within politics and the social sciences, it is not clear what value it holds for the analysis of inequalities of income, wealth and power under financial capitalism. Who are the financial elite, and what distinguishes them from other economically powerful groups? We delineate 'distributive', 'categorical' and 'relational' approaches to financial elites, arguing that various unresolved …
The social impact of the arts: An intellectual history
by Eleonora Belfiore and Oliver Bennett, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 248 pp., £18.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-230-27351-1 In The Social Impact of the Arts: An Intellectual History, Eleono
Markets, schools and the convertibility of economic capital: The complex dynamics of class choice
While economic capital is not synonymous with cultural, social or symbolic capital in either its constitutional or organizational form, it nevertheless remains the more flexible and convertible form of capital. The convertibility of economic capital has particular resonance within ‘Celtic Tiger’ Ireland. The state’s reluctance to fully endorse an internal market between schools has resulted in middle‐class parents using their private wealth to cr…
Social Inclusion and the Limits of Pragmatic Liberalism: The Irish Case
Since the 1990s, Irish public policy has been framed by a concern with social inclusion. While the idea of social inclusion has considerable potential from the point of view of social justice, critical engagement with the concept reveals it to mask and justify more regressive political agendas. This paper maps the competing models of inclusion operational in Irish social policy, and reconceptualises them in terms of a ‘narrow’ version of inclusio…
The social impact of the arts: An intellectual history
by Eleonora Belfiore and Oliver Bennett, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 248 pp., £18.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-230-27351-1 In The Social Impact of the Arts: An Intellectual History, Eleono
Rethinking “culture”: A cultural-materialist account of social space
Studies in sociology and political economy typically depend on a shared, problematic vision of social space; what I call the “separate spheres” model, which divides social space into discrete, quasi-geographical bounded domains labelled “culture”, “economy”, “politics” and so on. Where this “separate spheres” model underpins and informs theoretical or empirical work, it creates various analytical difficulties, including, historically, the treatme…
Raymond Williams and Sociology
The purpose of this article is to recover Williams as a major theoretical inspiration for the social sciences, specifically, as the inaugurator of what might be regarded as a research paradigm, cultural materialism. In the first section, Williams's encounter with the discipline of sociology is traced and distinguished as a critical alternative to the presently ascendant - at least in the USA - neo-Durkeimian school of 'cultural sociology'. In the…
Identity and Capitalism
Against the common assumption that identity 'always mattered', Marie Moran shows that what we now think of routinely as 'personal identity' actually only emerged with the explosion of consumption in the late 20th century
Identity and Identity Politics: A Cultural-Materialist History
This paper draws on the cultural-materialist paradigm articulated by Raymond Williams to offer a radical historicisation of identity and identity-politics in capitalist societies. A keywords analysis reveals surprisingly that identity, as it is elaborated in the familiar categories of personal and social identity, is a relatively novel concept in Western thought, politics and culture. The claim is not the standard one that people’s ‘identities’ b…
Tory stories’: Arguing for a critical cultural populism, again
Cultural populism in new populist times
This article unpacks the concept of ‘cultural populism’ in multiple ways, and explores its value for the critical analysis of new formations and expressions of populism in the current conjuncture. Taking Jim McGuigan’s influential book, Cultural Populism, as our point of departure, we begin by exploring its earlier use in cultural studies as a critical term for apolitical/celebratory modes of analysis, and then argue it may be usefully extended t…
Williams, Raymond (1921–1988)
Raymond Williams (1921–1988) was Britain's greatest socialist intellectual of the twentieth century. His Welsh working‐class background and sense of community always inflected his work as a theorist, novelist, and dramatist. Moreover, he developed and revised his thinking over time, influenced by western Marxism but always motivated by the critical possibility of a “common culture” facilitated by an educated and participatory democracy, including…
(Un)troubling identity politics: A cultural materialist intervention
This article draws on the cultural materialist paradigm articulated by Raymond Williams to offer a radical historicization of the idea of identity, with a view to clarifying and resolving some of the issues animating the 'identity politics' debates currently dividing left academia and activism. First, it offers clarity on the concept 'identity politics', demonstrating that we should reserve the term to refer only to politics that mobilize specifi…
Keywords as method
This short essay seeks to restore the keywords approach initiated by Williams to a more central place within the cultural materialist paradigm he also developed. Combining Williams’ cultural materialist account of language with the practical orientation of Keywords, it sketches a way of developing the keywords approach as a method of sociocultural analysis. Drawing on some practical examples, it offers ‘keywords-as-method’ as a means of carrying …
The student experience' and the remaking of contemporary studenthood: A critical intervention
The student experience' is a formulation that will be familiar to many reading this article; increasingly the term has come to stand in for an imprecise set of values and practices around higher education study. Despite the fuzziness that characterises its use, 'student experience talk' has gained traction in education policy and rankings, academic research, and amongst students themselves. After initially drawing from Raymond Williams to situate…
Rethinking the Concept of a 'Financial Elite: A Critical Intervention
While the concept of a 'financial elite' has become prominent within politics and the social sciences, it is not clear what value it holds for the analysis of inequalities of income, wealth and power under financial capitalism. Who are the financial elite, and what distinguishes them from other economically powerful groups? We delineate 'distributive', 'categorical' and 'relational' approaches to financial elites, arguing that various unresolved …
Clarifying and Enhancing the Role of Equality in Youth Work Ethics: The Case for an Equality Studies Approach
Implicitly or explicitly, youth work practitioners, scholars and advocates typically invoke a set of egalitarian values to explain, justify and promote the ethical basis of their work. Despite such commitments, there exists conceptual ambiguity surrounding equality across much of the youth work literature which has significant consequences for how youth work is framed and defended. This article introduces the interdisciplinary field of Equality S…
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