Darren J O’byrne
Biographic Data
| ID | 4516342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darren J O’byrne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darren J |
| FAMILY NAME | O’byrne |
| SIGNATURE | O’BYRNE D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Roehampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9883-6791 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Neoliberalism, Populism, and the Postapocalypse: Competing (or Compatible?) Ideologies and Imaginaries of the Pandemic
It is widely accepted that the COVID-19 pandemic was a transformative event of major historical significance, but the ideational and ideological dimensions of it have been studied less extensively than its more tangible implications in terms of economic or human cost. This paper engages with ideological discourses revolving around the pandemic by relating interpretations of the pandemic-induced crisis to the discourse of endism, which includes su…
Power without Responsibility: Populism, Narcisism and the Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism
In recent years, much attention has been paid to the rise of political populism and its relationship to neoliberalism and neoconservatism hitherto dominant in the West. In particular, some have speculated that populism is a reaction against the failures of the neoliberal internationalist project, or capitalist globalization. Even so, clearly the new populists on the political Right do not stand opposed to, or outside, capitalism itself. Theirs is…
The Rise of Populism, the Demise of the Neoliberal and Neoconservative Globalist Projects, and the War on Human Rights
For many, the “Trump phenomenon” represents an authoritarian phase of the neoliberal project. For others, it is a manifestation of a broader populist project that is the antithesis of, and arises in part as a reaction against, neoliberalism. Across Europe, political parties hitherto identified with the Far Right and thus beyond the margins of “respectable” politics have sought to reinvent themselves as legitimate voices within this populist frame…
Marxism and human rights: New thoughts on an old debate
This paper revives the debate as to whether Marxism is compatible with a commitment to human rights, but, in presenting a defence of such a compatibility, seeks to extend that debate beyond the confines of philosophical analysis to incorporate the contributions of Marxist theory to the sociology of human rights. It suggests that Marxist theory enables us to re-evaluate the priorities of human rights as a political project, and that in doing so it…
Global Ethics and Civil Society
This detailed and timely volume examines the impact of global transformations on concepts of civil society. Divided into two sections, it evaluates changing notions of ethics and how these transformations are operationalized. The first part deals with the theoretical aspects while the second examines the practical impact of the evolution of global ethics and norms on society. Providing solid case studies, this accessible volume contributes to the…
On ecocide: Toward a conceptual framework
The extent to which ecocide should be treated within the existing framework of genocide has been hotly debated, and recent literature on what some have called the anthropocene epoch has further highlighted the extent of human responsibility for environmental destruction. This paper contributes to those debates by locating ecocidal practices and the corresponding ecological resistance within a paradigm shift from the anthropocentric economic knowl…
Human Rights in a Globalizing World
Challenges and conceptions of globalization: An investigation into models of global change and their relationship with business practice
Purpose – This paper, which is conceptual in both nature and approach, builds on a recent contribution to the theorization of “globalization” and seeks to utilise the framework developed therein to help promote a more complex conceptual understanding of the potential implications of how business operates and responds to these challenges in a global environment. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws …
Back to the future: The Idea of a University Revisited
We begin this paper by outlining the 'classical' debate on the idea of a university. We then proceed to show how this intellectual ideal has been compromised by successive processes of reform privileging paradigms of managerialism and commodification at the expense of intellectualism in shaping and defining UK higher education, with equivalent processes at work in other countries. This serves to set the context for our central premise that an int…
Introducing Sociological Theory
Introducing Sociological Theory offers a comprehensive, navigable and highly readable introduction to the main schools of thought in sociology, along with the philosophical ideas that underpin them. 8 broad theoretical traditions, or perspectives, are explained helping you to recognize the scope and range of sociological theory and to think sociologically and see the social world in different ways. The author skilfully and revealingly engages wit…
Re-imagining the theory of human rights
This article seeks to address the concern that the language of human rights has become increasingly problematic and susceptible to distortion from its intended meaning. This is in part due to three problems which are identified and interrogated, these being the implicit reduction of human rights discourse to Western individualism, universalism, and legalism. It proceeds to present a sociological defence of human rights discourse as the articulati…
On the Sociology of Human Rights: Theorising the Language-structure of Rights
This article defends the claim that human rights is a legitimate subject of inquiry for sociologists, and proceeds to present the case for a particular application of sociological theory to the understanding of gross human rights violations. Sociology, it claims, is equipped to study the dynamics of social institutions - socially constructed language-structures within which social action is framed - and since the mid-20th century, human rights ha…
Theorizing Global Studies
The Dimensions of Global Citizenship
The Dimensions of Global Citizenship takes issue with the assumption that ideas about global citizenship are merely Utopian ideals. The author argues that, far from being a modern phenomenon, world citizenship has existed throughout history as a radical alternative to the inadequacies of the nation-state system. Only in the post-war era has this ideal become politically meaningful. This social transformation is illustrated by references to the ac…
The Dimensions of Global Citizenship: Political Identity Beyond the Nation-State
Part 1 The rediscovery of citizenship: citizenship - some definitions the four components of citizenship - membership, rights, duties, participation the origins of citizenship alternative citizenship - world citizenship, non-modern citizenship introduction to the book. Part 2 Citizenship and the nation-state: citizenship and the modern nation-state citizens and states - the liberal tradition, the comunitarian tradition, the republican tradition c…
On passports and border controls
On passports and border controls
Back to the future: The Idea of a University Revisited
We begin this paper by outlining the 'classical' debate on the idea of a university. We then proceed to show how this intellectual ideal has been compromised by successive processes of reform privileging paradigms of managerialism and commodification at the expense of intellectualism in shaping and defining UK higher education, with equivalent processes at work in other countries. This serves to set the context for our central premise that an int…
On the Sociology of Human Rights: Theorising the Language-structure of Rights
This article defends the claim that human rights is a legitimate subject of inquiry for sociologists, and proceeds to present the case for a particular application of sociological theory to the understanding of gross human rights violations. Sociology, it claims, is equipped to study the dynamics of social institutions - socially constructed language-structures within which social action is framed - and since the mid-20th century, human rights ha…
On ecocide: Toward a conceptual framework
The extent to which ecocide should be treated within the existing framework of genocide has been hotly debated, and recent literature on what some have called the anthropocene epoch has further highlighted the extent of human responsibility for environmental destruction. This paper contributes to those debates by locating ecocidal practices and the corresponding ecological resistance within a paradigm shift from the anthropocentric economic knowl…
Introducing Sociological Theory
Introducing Sociological Theory offers a comprehensive, navigable and highly readable introduction to the main schools of thought in sociology, along with the philosophical ideas that underpin them. 8 broad theoretical traditions, or perspectives, are explained helping you to recognize the scope and range of sociological theory and to think sociologically and see the social world in different ways. The author skilfully and revealingly engages wit…
The Rise of Populism, the Demise of the Neoliberal and Neoconservative Globalist Projects, and the War on Human Rights
For many, the “Trump phenomenon” represents an authoritarian phase of the neoliberal project. For others, it is a manifestation of a broader populist project that is the antithesis of, and arises in part as a reaction against, neoliberalism. Across Europe, political parties hitherto identified with the Far Right and thus beyond the margins of “respectable” politics have sought to reinvent themselves as legitimate voices within this populist frame…
Marxism and human rights: New thoughts on an old debate
This paper revives the debate as to whether Marxism is compatible with a commitment to human rights, but, in presenting a defence of such a compatibility, seeks to extend that debate beyond the confines of philosophical analysis to incorporate the contributions of Marxist theory to the sociology of human rights. It suggests that Marxist theory enables us to re-evaluate the priorities of human rights as a political project, and that in doing so it…
Re-imagining the theory of human rights
This article seeks to address the concern that the language of human rights has become increasingly problematic and susceptible to distortion from its intended meaning. This is in part due to three problems which are identified and interrogated, these being the implicit reduction of human rights discourse to Western individualism, universalism, and legalism. It proceeds to present a sociological defence of human rights discourse as the articulati…
On passports and border controls
The Dimensions of Global Citizenship: Political Identity Beyond the Nation-State
Part 1 The rediscovery of citizenship: citizenship - some definitions the four components of citizenship - membership, rights, duties, participation the origins of citizenship alternative citizenship - world citizenship, non-modern citizenship introduction to the book. Part 2 Citizenship and the nation-state: citizenship and the modern nation-state citizens and states - the liberal tradition, the comunitarian tradition, the republican tradition c…
The Dimensions of Global Citizenship
The Dimensions of Global Citizenship takes issue with the assumption that ideas about global citizenship are merely Utopian ideals. The author argues that, far from being a modern phenomenon, world citizenship has existed throughout history as a radical alternative to the inadequacies of the nation-state system. Only in the post-war era has this ideal become politically meaningful. This social transformation is illustrated by references to the ac…
Theorizing Global Studies
Re-imagining the theory of human rights
This article seeks to address the concern that the language of human rights has become increasingly problematic and susceptible to distortion from its intended meaning. This is in part due to three problems which are identified and interrogated, these being the implicit reduction of human rights discourse to Western individualism, universalism, and legalism. It proceeds to present a sociological defence of human rights discourse as the articulati…
On the Sociology of Human Rights: Theorising the Language-structure of Rights
This article defends the claim that human rights is a legitimate subject of inquiry for sociologists, and proceeds to present the case for a particular application of sociological theory to the understanding of gross human rights violations. Sociology, it claims, is equipped to study the dynamics of social institutions - socially constructed language-structures within which social action is framed - and since the mid-20th century, human rights ha…
Introducing Sociological Theory
Introducing Sociological Theory offers a comprehensive, navigable and highly readable introduction to the main schools of thought in sociology, along with the philosophical ideas that underpin them. 8 broad theoretical traditions, or perspectives, are explained helping you to recognize the scope and range of sociological theory and to think sociologically and see the social world in different ways. The author skilfully and revealingly engages wit…
Challenges and conceptions of globalization: An investigation into models of global change and their relationship with business practice
Purpose – This paper, which is conceptual in both nature and approach, builds on a recent contribution to the theorization of “globalization” and seeks to utilise the framework developed therein to help promote a more complex conceptual understanding of the potential implications of how business operates and responds to these challenges in a global environment. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws …
Back to the future: The Idea of a University Revisited
We begin this paper by outlining the 'classical' debate on the idea of a university. We then proceed to show how this intellectual ideal has been compromised by successive processes of reform privileging paradigms of managerialism and commodification at the expense of intellectualism in shaping and defining UK higher education, with equivalent processes at work in other countries. This serves to set the context for our central premise that an int…
Human Rights in a Globalizing World
Global Ethics and Civil Society
This detailed and timely volume examines the impact of global transformations on concepts of civil society. Divided into two sections, it evaluates changing notions of ethics and how these transformations are operationalized. The first part deals with the theoretical aspects while the second examines the practical impact of the evolution of global ethics and norms on society. Providing solid case studies, this accessible volume contributes to the…
On ecocide: Toward a conceptual framework
The extent to which ecocide should be treated within the existing framework of genocide has been hotly debated, and recent literature on what some have called the anthropocene epoch has further highlighted the extent of human responsibility for environmental destruction. This paper contributes to those debates by locating ecocidal practices and the corresponding ecological resistance within a paradigm shift from the anthropocentric economic knowl…
The Rise of Populism, the Demise of the Neoliberal and Neoconservative Globalist Projects, and the War on Human Rights
For many, the “Trump phenomenon” represents an authoritarian phase of the neoliberal project. For others, it is a manifestation of a broader populist project that is the antithesis of, and arises in part as a reaction against, neoliberalism. Across Europe, political parties hitherto identified with the Far Right and thus beyond the margins of “respectable” politics have sought to reinvent themselves as legitimate voices within this populist frame…
Marxism and human rights: New thoughts on an old debate
This paper revives the debate as to whether Marxism is compatible with a commitment to human rights, but, in presenting a defence of such a compatibility, seeks to extend that debate beyond the confines of philosophical analysis to incorporate the contributions of Marxist theory to the sociology of human rights. It suggests that Marxist theory enables us to re-evaluate the priorities of human rights as a political project, and that in doing so it…
Power without Responsibility: Populism, Narcisism and the Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism
In recent years, much attention has been paid to the rise of political populism and its relationship to neoliberalism and neoconservatism hitherto dominant in the West. In particular, some have speculated that populism is a reaction against the failures of the neoliberal internationalist project, or capitalist globalization. Even so, clearly the new populists on the political Right do not stand opposed to, or outside, capitalism itself. Theirs is…
Neoliberalism, Populism, and the Postapocalypse: Competing (or Compatible?) Ideologies and Imaginaries of the Pandemic
It is widely accepted that the COVID-19 pandemic was a transformative event of major historical significance, but the ideational and ideological dimensions of it have been studied less extensively than its more tangible implications in terms of economic or human cost. This paper engages with ideological discourses revolving around the pandemic by relating interpretations of the pandemic-induced crisis to the discourse of endism, which includes su…
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