Ruben Flores
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979053 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruben Flores |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruben |
| FAMILY NAME | Flores |
| SIGNATURE | FLORES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5075-3906 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Siempre hay fisuras entre las rocas; siempre hubo lugar para el cambio”: Una entrevista con Kathleen Lynch
Kathleen Lynch, Profesora Emérita de Equality Studies en University College Dublin (UCD), jugó un papel importante en el establecimiento del Equality Studies Centre en 1990 (Centro de Estudios sobre la Igualdad) y de la School of Social Justice (Escuela de Justicia Social) en 2004/5, ambas en UCD. Es autora de varios libros y artículos, especialmente en el terreno de la educación, la igualdad, los cuidados y la justicia social. Su más reciente li…
Together or Apart? Some questions raised by the broadcasting of funeral services during the Covid-19 pandemic
On January 2021 a thousand people watched a funeral Mass streamed live on University College Dublin’s YouTube channel: the funeral Mass of "Old man Belfield", an intensely private individual who lived on the campus of Ireland's largest university for over 30 years, rarely speaking to anyone. This piece takes this, and similar events, as a starting point to explore how new online media forms may impact the representation of social life while simul…
Alicia Turner, Laurence Cox, and Brian Bocking, The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire
Debates editor’s introduction: Two perspectives on climate change and activism
The abnormality of global warming has become the new normal: hardly a week passes without us learning about extreme climate events that would have been until recently quite unimaginable: from horrendous wildfires in Australia to freakish heat waves in Antarctica.'But where there is danger, A rescuing element grows as well', as H olderlin writes: alongside melting glaciers and rising sea levels, we can also witness inspiring acts of social mobilis…
Understanding Policy Scandals in Historical Context: A Longer-Term Lens for Policy Analysis
The emergence of and reaction to policy scandals has been usefully studied through comparative case studies. Far less attention has been devoted, however, to the study of such scandals in long-term historical context. With the aim of illuminating longer-term social processes which shape the likelihood that (health)care scandals emerge, we delineate three areas where such changes are visible: a) changing formats of social relations and emotions wi…
Debates Editor's Introduction: Three Perspectives on Populism
Two comments on A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
Debates editor's introduction: On grounded nationalisms
Lorenzo Meyer, Distopía Mexicana: Perspectivas para una nueva transición
Routes into activism in post-Soviet Russia: Habitus, Homology, Hysteresis
This paper develops Bourdieusian notions of habitus, capital and field, along with the allied concepts of hysteresis and homology, to examine routes into public activism in post-Soviet Russia. Focusing on a neighbourhood campaign against construction projects in the Moscow district of Izmailovo, we argue that mobilization was driven by activists whose formative years took place during the Soviet period, and this resultant Soviet habitus enabled t…
The changing place of care and compassion within the English NHS: An Eliasean perspective
Carlos Kevin Blanton. George I. Sánchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration
The educational philosopher George I. Sánchez was the most notable advocate in the Mexican-American Southwest of the twentieth-century form of thought known as the scientific ethic and associated prominently with philosopher John Dewey and New Deal administrator Rexford Tugwell. In a biography that closes a longstanding omission in the historiography of the American West, Carlos Kevin Blanton interprets the expression of the scientific ethic in S…
Using History to Analyze the Learning by Observing and Pitching In Practices of Contemporary Mesoamerican Societies
From Personal Troubles to Public Compassion: Charity Shop Volunteering as a Practice of Care
This article analyses charity shop volunteering in the UK as an instance of individual commitment towards organizations devoted to combating suffering. Drawing on semi-structured interviews focused on motives, the paper argues that some respondents found in volunteer work a way of regaining meaning, structure and belonging after experiences of social dislocation such as retirement and bereavement. The transition from social dislocation to ontolog…
When Charity Does Not Begin at Home: Exploring the British Socioemotional Economy of Compassion
The British socioemotional economy is marked by a tension between cosmopolitan humanitarian sentiments and the denial of sympathy for geographically close, but socially distant, strangers in need. The essence of this tension can be captured by the Dickensian notion of 'telescopic philanthropy'. A proper understanding of this tension would benefit from examining both short-term and secular trends - proximate and distal causal mechanisms. The paper…
Making normative structures visible: The British National Health Service and the hospice movement as signifiers of compassion and hope
Compassion and hope are vital to individual and societal flourishing, not least through the solidarity and change that they facilitate. This article considers the importance of these two social phenomena for welfare institutions, and in particular for the hospice movement and the National Health Service in Britain. Compassion and hope are enacted due to the normative structures in which citizens are embedded. From here it is argued that a dialect…
Say Yes First: A Longitudinal, School-Based Alcohol and Drug Prevention Project for Rural Youth and Families
This study was based on a 5-year, comprehensive educational and case-management approach to drug prevention that involved 859 students of the class of the year 2000 (41.6% Hispanic) as they progressedfrom 4th through 8th grade. Among a longitudinal, 4-year cohort, program participation was associated significantly with academic achievementfor all students and was associated negatively with frequency of drug use among high-risk students. The preva…
From Personal Troubles to Public Compassion: Charity Shop Volunteering as a Practice of Care
This article analyses charity shop volunteering in the UK as an instance of individual commitment towards organizations devoted to combating suffering. Drawing on semi-structured interviews focused on motives, the paper argues that some respondents found in volunteer work a way of regaining meaning, structure and belonging after experiences of social dislocation such as retirement and bereavement. The transition from social dislocation to ontolog…
Making normative structures visible: The British National Health Service and the hospice movement as signifiers of compassion and hope
Compassion and hope are vital to individual and societal flourishing, not least through the solidarity and change that they facilitate. This article considers the importance of these two social phenomena for welfare institutions, and in particular for the hospice movement and the National Health Service in Britain. Compassion and hope are enacted due to the normative structures in which citizens are embedded. From here it is argued that a dialect…
The changing place of care and compassion within the English NHS: An Eliasean perspective
Routes into activism in post-Soviet Russia: Habitus, Homology, Hysteresis
This paper develops Bourdieusian notions of habitus, capital and field, along with the allied concepts of hysteresis and homology, to examine routes into public activism in post-Soviet Russia. Focusing on a neighbourhood campaign against construction projects in the Moscow district of Izmailovo, we argue that mobilization was driven by activists whose formative years took place during the Soviet period, and this resultant Soviet habitus enabled t…
When Charity Does Not Begin at Home: Exploring the British Socioemotional Economy of Compassion
The British socioemotional economy is marked by a tension between cosmopolitan humanitarian sentiments and the denial of sympathy for geographically close, but socially distant, strangers in need. The essence of this tension can be captured by the Dickensian notion of 'telescopic philanthropy'. A proper understanding of this tension would benefit from examining both short-term and secular trends - proximate and distal causal mechanisms. The paper…
Say Yes First: A Longitudinal, School-Based Alcohol and Drug Prevention Project for Rural Youth and Families
This study was based on a 5-year, comprehensive educational and case-management approach to drug prevention that involved 859 students of the class of the year 2000 (41.6% Hispanic) as they progressedfrom 4th through 8th grade. Among a longitudinal, 4-year cohort, program participation was associated significantly with academic achievementfor all students and was associated negatively with frequency of drug use among high-risk students. The preva…
Making normative structures visible: The British National Health Service and the hospice movement as signifiers of compassion and hope
Compassion and hope are vital to individual and societal flourishing, not least through the solidarity and change that they facilitate. This article considers the importance of these two social phenomena for welfare institutions, and in particular for the hospice movement and the National Health Service in Britain. Compassion and hope are enacted due to the normative structures in which citizens are embedded. From here it is argued that a dialect…
When Charity Does Not Begin at Home: Exploring the British Socioemotional Economy of Compassion
The British socioemotional economy is marked by a tension between cosmopolitan humanitarian sentiments and the denial of sympathy for geographically close, but socially distant, strangers in need. The essence of this tension can be captured by the Dickensian notion of 'telescopic philanthropy'. A proper understanding of this tension would benefit from examining both short-term and secular trends - proximate and distal causal mechanisms. The paper…
From Personal Troubles to Public Compassion: Charity Shop Volunteering as a Practice of Care
This article analyses charity shop volunteering in the UK as an instance of individual commitment towards organizations devoted to combating suffering. Drawing on semi-structured interviews focused on motives, the paper argues that some respondents found in volunteer work a way of regaining meaning, structure and belonging after experiences of social dislocation such as retirement and bereavement. The transition from social dislocation to ontolog…
Using History to Analyze the Learning by Observing and Pitching In Practices of Contemporary Mesoamerican Societies
Carlos Kevin Blanton. George I. Sánchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration
The educational philosopher George I. Sánchez was the most notable advocate in the Mexican-American Southwest of the twentieth-century form of thought known as the scientific ethic and associated prominently with philosopher John Dewey and New Deal administrator Rexford Tugwell. In a biography that closes a longstanding omission in the historiography of the American West, Carlos Kevin Blanton interprets the expression of the scientific ethic in S…
The changing place of care and compassion within the English NHS: An Eliasean perspective
Lorenzo Meyer, Distopía Mexicana: Perspectivas para una nueva transición
Routes into activism in post-Soviet Russia: Habitus, Homology, Hysteresis
This paper develops Bourdieusian notions of habitus, capital and field, along with the allied concepts of hysteresis and homology, to examine routes into public activism in post-Soviet Russia. Focusing on a neighbourhood campaign against construction projects in the Moscow district of Izmailovo, we argue that mobilization was driven by activists whose formative years took place during the Soviet period, and this resultant Soviet habitus enabled t…
Debates Editor's Introduction: Three Perspectives on Populism
Two comments on A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
Debates editor's introduction: On grounded nationalisms
Debates editor’s introduction: Two perspectives on climate change and activism
The abnormality of global warming has become the new normal: hardly a week passes without us learning about extreme climate events that would have been until recently quite unimaginable: from horrendous wildfires in Australia to freakish heat waves in Antarctica.'But where there is danger, A rescuing element grows as well', as H olderlin writes: alongside melting glaciers and rising sea levels, we can also witness inspiring acts of social mobilis…
Understanding Policy Scandals in Historical Context: A Longer-Term Lens for Policy Analysis
The emergence of and reaction to policy scandals has been usefully studied through comparative case studies. Far less attention has been devoted, however, to the study of such scandals in long-term historical context. With the aim of illuminating longer-term social processes which shape the likelihood that (health)care scandals emerge, we delineate three areas where such changes are visible: a) changing formats of social relations and emotions wi…
Together or Apart? Some questions raised by the broadcasting of funeral services during the Covid-19 pandemic
On January 2021 a thousand people watched a funeral Mass streamed live on University College Dublin’s YouTube channel: the funeral Mass of "Old man Belfield", an intensely private individual who lived on the campus of Ireland's largest university for over 30 years, rarely speaking to anyone. This piece takes this, and similar events, as a starting point to explore how new online media forms may impact the representation of social life while simul…
Alicia Turner, Laurence Cox, and Brian Bocking, The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire
“Siempre hay fisuras entre las rocas; siempre hubo lugar para el cambio”: Una entrevista con Kathleen Lynch
Kathleen Lynch, Profesora Emérita de Equality Studies en University College Dublin (UCD), jugó un papel importante en el establecimiento del Equality Studies Centre en 1990 (Centro de Estudios sobre la Igualdad) y de la School of Social Justice (Escuela de Justicia Social) en 2004/5, ambas en UCD. Es autora de varios libros y artículos, especialmente en el terreno de la educación, la igualdad, los cuidados y la justicia social. Su más reciente li…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Compassion (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Health care (3 works)