Kevin Ryan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3585456 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kevin Ryan |
| PRENOMES | Kevin |
| SOBRENOME | Ryan |
| ASSINATURA | RYAN K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7059-9560 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 42 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1966 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Curating (entangled) childhood(s)
The V&A Museum of Childhood in London was recently rebranded as the Young V&A and reinvented as a ‘powerhouse of creativity’. No longer solely exhibiting objects that represent the material culture of childhood, the Young V&A now curates children’s experiences as they interact with the material and ideational fabric of the museum. While supportive of the Young V&A’s child-centric ethos, this article engages critically with the future being extrac…
‘Beyond the sovereign self’
In a chapter titled ‘our pernicious temporality’ from his Beyond the Sovereign Self (2024), Grant Kester explores the transformative potential of socially-engaged art. Kester's argument is that a dialogical understanding of aesthetic experience can help us to rethink the normativity of aesthetic autonomy, along with the subject of that discursive apparatus – the ‘sovereign self’. In this review, sociologist Kevin Ryan and curator Neal Harlow put …
Homo mimeticus, Wayward lives, and The biology of adversity and resilience
From critical theory to critical fabulism
In this essay to mark the centenary of the Frankfurt School, I situate the (his)story of domination between critical theory and critical fabulism. The version of this (his)story crafted by the first generation of Frankfurt School thinkers is anchored in the idea of ‘the masses’, and in the first part of the article, I track this through the work of Theodore Adorno, drawing on Grant Kester's writings on ‘exculpatory critique’. The second part of t…
The power of critique in the time of emergency
This article begins by reflecting on crisis and democracy, arguing that the claim that democracy is in a state of crisis is a normative fiction that sustains rather than transforms extant self-other-world relations. An alternative is to frame the present as ‘the time of emergency’, which implies scope for ‘emergent’ possibilities. With a view to teasing out such possibilities, the article makes a case for critical fiction as a way of radicalising…
Introducing forecast-based public health warnings to promote engagement with air quality risk
Policies aimed at raising the public’s awareness on the causes and consequences of air pollution are crucial to incentivise behavioural change that can benefit the health of people and the environment. Air quality forecasting (AQF) can inform early public health warnings aimed at mitigating exposure to air pollution and promoting behaviours that may be less impactful on air quality (e.g. transport, home heating). Although research in this area is…
Programming Plasticity as Embodied in Childhood
The Biology of Adversity and Resilience coheres around the claim that early childhood experiences of stress and adversity get ‘under the skin’ and become ‘biologically embedded’, increasing the risk of negative health and behavioural outcomes later in life. Taking a genealogical approach to biosocial plasticity, this article situates The Biology of Adversity and Resilience within the arc of an apparatus of power/knowledge that emerged in tandem w…
A Missed Opportunity in the Catholic War on Poverty
IN 1965, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS for the Archdiocese of Chicago's Office of Urban Affairs (OUA) established the Archdiocesan Inter-Parish Movement (AIM). Incorporating many of the ideas and beliefs associated with the Catholic War on Poverty and Catholic interracialism, AIM was to be an antipoverty and, to a lesser extent, racial equality program. Through AIM, Catholics from a poorer urban neighborhood formed a community organization, referred to …
Onset Prominence in Wubuy Reduplication
Wubuy (also known as Nunggubuyu; Australia) exhibits a regular and productive pattern of partial reduplication by which the reduplicant is one syllable if its base begins with an obstruent and two if it begins with a sonorant. We compare two approaches to the synchronic analysis of this pattern based on phonotactics and weight, respectively, ultimately arguing for the latter. As we show, an analysis in terms of general markedness constraints (e.g…
Boys in the Making
Anchored in a ‘core story’ of childhood development, ‘the biology of adversity and resilience’ (TBOAR) is an emerging scientific paradigm that seeks to explain how and why adverse childhood experiences have consequences in the form of negative ‘outcomes’ that span health and behavioural problems. In this article, Two Fuse bring TBOAR into conversation with an alternative way of producing knowledge about childhood adversity: an arts and education …
By Myself but Not Alone. Agency, Creativity and Extended Musical Historicity
In this paper we offer a preliminary framework that highlights the relational nature of solo music-making, and its associated capacity to influence the constellation of habits and experiences one develops through acts of musicking. To do so, we introduce the notion of extended musical historicity and suggest that when novice and expert performers engage in individual musical practices, they often rely on an extended sense of agency which permeate…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Enactivism
Refiguring Childhood
Queering the ground
This comment uses Judith Butler’s theory of performativity to engage critically with Siniša Malešević's claim that nationalism is so deeply grounded in everyday social life that it has become ‘omnipotent’. The gist of the intervention is to drill deeper into the contingency of nationalism by looking at how authoritarian, racialized, mono-cultural, patriarchal and heteronormative nationalisms are vulnerable to subversive acts of improvisation that…
Thinking Sexual Difference with (and against) Adriana Cavarero
This article engages with Adriana Cavarero's framing of sexual difference, specifically in terms of how this displaces “bodies that queer” (Volcano 2013). For Cavarero, the narratable self is inescapably relational and characterized by vulnerability, which is how ethics arises in the form of a decision between caring and wounding. At the same time, Cavarero's deconstructive method of appropriating stereotypes restricts the scope of sexual differe…
Refiguring childhood
Hannah Arendt's concept of natality spans birth and action, which combine to inaugurate the new. Natality is used here to examine childhood as a prefigurative form of biopolitics. This concerns practices that seek to actualise envisioned futures by conditioning and constraining natality, thereby shaping the power relations that encapsulate the social and cultural world(s) of adults and children. The article concludes by reflecting on whether this…
The (anti-) politics of protest movements
What, if anything, does Occupy Wall Street have in common with the revolutionary wave of uprisings now known as the Arab Spring, or the Spanish 15-M movement with mass demonstrations in Bulgaria, o
Adolescent feedback on the Haemophilia Transition Programme between Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital and St. James’s Hospital Dublin Ireland
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Attenuated Spreading in Sanskrit Retroflex Harmony
Drawing on a two-million-word corpus of Sanskrit, the article documents and analyzes two previously unrecognized generalizations concerning the morphoprosodic conditioning of retroflex spreading ( nati). Both reveal harmony to be attenuated across the left boundaries of roots (i.e., between a prefix and a root or between members of a compound), in the sense that while harmony applies across these boundaries, when it does so, it accesses a proper …
Academic freedom and the eye of power
Transparency is both a powerful idea and a technology of power associated with accountability, justice and democracy, which opposes the secretive and shadowy power of surveillance wielded by states and corporations. This article examines surveillance and transparency not as a dichotomy but as a constitutive relation in the field of academia, focusing specifically on ranking and rivalry in the context of competitive performance. Transparency-as-op…
Agonism
Gellner's genealogy of the open society
A decade before Foucault began to work with the related concepts of biopolitics and biopower, Gellner posed a series of questions which are suggestive of a similar line of inquiry. Gellner did not pursue this strand of his thought as an historical sociologist however. Instead he packaged it into a functionalist account of how industrial society reproduces itself. In Gellner's writings, biopolitics is both present and absent, like a redacted text.…
The art of democracy
This article engages critically with the normative framing of socially engaged/collaborative art as a consensual/dissensual dichotomy, whereby consensual practices are equated with political abdication. This way of framing such practices gives rise to three significant problems: one concerns the passive positioning of viewers/participants relative to the authorial autonomy of the artwork; the second concerns an inadequate understanding of power; …
Childhood, Biosocial Power and the “Anthropological Machine”
This article examines how childhood has become a strategy that answers to questions concerning the (un)governability of life. The analysis is organized around the concept of “biosocial power,” which is shown to be a particular zone of intensity within the wider field of biopolitics. To grasp this intensity it is necessary to attend to the place of imagination in staging biosocial strategies, that is the specific ways in which childhood is both an…
The Disfigured Ontology of Figurational Sociology
This article scrutinizes Norbert Elias's figurational sociology by focusing on its ontological foundations. The analytical spotlight is on the inherent tension between Elias's stance of normative neutrality and detachment, his naturalistic ontology, and an unyielding commitment to directional development. We show how Elias's social theory does not stand apart, as an external observer, from the figurations it seeks to explain. On the contrary, it …
The new wave of childhood studies
The article takes as its starting point a new wave of researchers who use concepts such as 'hybridity' and 'multiplicity' in a bid to move the study of childhood beyond the strictures of what Lee and Motzkau call 'bio-social dualism', whereby the division between the 'natural child' of developmental psychology and the 'social child' of socialization theory replicates a tendency in modern thought and practice to divide nature from culture. The art…
The Disfigured Ontology of Figurational Sociology
This article scrutinizes Norbert Elias's figurational sociology by focusing on its ontological foundations. The analytical spotlight is on the inherent tension between Elias's stance of normative neutrality and detachment, his naturalistic ontology, and an unyielding commitment to directional development. We show how Elias's social theory does not stand apart, as an external observer, from the figurations it seeks to explain. On the contrary, it …
Programming Plasticity as Embodied in Childhood
The Biology of Adversity and Resilience coheres around the claim that early childhood experiences of stress and adversity get ‘under the skin’ and become ‘biologically embedded’, increasing the risk of negative health and behavioural outcomes later in life. Taking a genealogical approach to biosocial plasticity, this article situates The Biology of Adversity and Resilience within the arc of an apparatus of power/knowledge that emerged in tandem w…
Attenuated Spreading in Sanskrit Retroflex Harmony
Drawing on a two-million-word corpus of Sanskrit, the article documents and analyzes two previously unrecognized generalizations concerning the morphoprosodic conditioning of retroflex spreading ( nati). Both reveal harmony to be attenuated across the left boundaries of roots (i.e., between a prefix and a root or between members of a compound), in the sense that while harmony applies across these boundaries, when it does so, it accesses a proper …
Childhood, Biosocial Power and the “Anthropological Machine”
This article examines how childhood has become a strategy that answers to questions concerning the (un)governability of life. The analysis is organized around the concept of “biosocial power,” which is shown to be a particular zone of intensity within the wider field of biopolitics. To grasp this intensity it is necessary to attend to the place of imagination in staging biosocial strategies, that is the specific ways in which childhood is both an…
Governing the Future
This article examines how citizenship can be deployed as a technology of conduct, and how it combines with the technique of empowerment in instituting the behavioural norms that constitute a neo-liberal social order. It conducts a detailed analysis of policy innovations in the Republic of Ireland, where children have recently been recognized as 'active citizens'. This field of innovation is framed by the idea that children should be listened to a…
On power, habitus, and (in)civility
Drawing on the work of Foucault, Elias, and Bauman, this article examines how the playground has articulated specific configurations of power/knowledge. Originally designed to cultivate virtue and counteract vice, the playgrounds of the past were to complete the discipline of the schoolroom, assisting the trained master to ‘direct’ the child’s thoughts, feelings, and actions. From its tentative beginnings in the work of Rousseau, the strategy of …
Public Health and the Politics of School Immunization Requirements
Compulsory vaccination has contributed to the enormous success of US immunization programs. Movements to introduce broad “philosophical/personal beliefs” exemptions administered without adequate public health oversight threaten this success. Health professionals and child welfare advocates must address these developments in order to maintain the effectiveness of the nation’s mandatory school vaccination programs. We review recent events regarding…
Technicians and interpreters in moral crusades
The perpetuation of moral crusades requires the work of two types of moral entrepreneurs: “technicians,” who develop techniques of street‐level enforcement of rules; and “interpreters,” who legitimate the work of the technicians by providing expansive readings of applicable legal limitations. This study explores the work of these entrepreneurs by examining the development, use, and legal history of the “drug courier profile,” an abstract of chara…
Boys in the Making
Anchored in a ‘core story’ of childhood development, ‘the biology of adversity and resilience’ (TBOAR) is an emerging scientific paradigm that seeks to explain how and why adverse childhood experiences have consequences in the form of negative ‘outcomes’ that span health and behavioural problems. In this article, Two Fuse bring TBOAR into conversation with an alternative way of producing knowledge about childhood adversity: an arts and education …
Sex, morals, and schools
1989). Sex, morals, and schools. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 28, Sexuality Education, pp. 217-220
The aging teacher
During these last few years, forecasts about upcoming changes on the American educational landscape have quickly become new realities: The glut of primary and secondary school teachers has been inverted into teacher shortages in more than a few disciplines, and very different starting salaries are even catching the eye of undergraduates. Albert Shanker (1988) noted that 1.7 million teachers will be needed to replace the generation up for retireme…
The Teaching Intern
Morality and Public Education
The entailment of an RDF graph under the RDF Schema standard can easily become too costly to compute and maintain. It is often more desirable to compute on-demand whether a triple exists in the entailment. This is a non-trivial task likely to incur I/O costs, since RDF graphs are often too large to fit in internal memory. As disk I/O is expensive in terms of time, I/O costs should be minimized to achieve better performance. We investigate three p…
Moral Education… It Comes with the Territory
“My teacher education program? Well…”
The aging teacher
During these last few years, forecasts about upcoming changes on the American educational landscape have quickly become new realities: The glut of primary and secondary school teachers has been inverted into teacher shortages in more than a few disciplines, and very different starting salaries are even catching the eye of undergraduates. Albert Shanker (1988) noted that 1.7 million teachers will be needed to replace the generation up for retireme…
Teacher Education and Moral Education
Preparing children for their moral re sponsibilities as adults is a crucial part of the education process. Teachers play an important role in fostering moral maturity in students, and, according to Ryan, teacher educators have an obliga tion to help preservice teachers under stand how to create a "moral curricu lum" in the classroom. He argues that the content of teacher education must consist of more than academic content and pedagogical skills.…
Strengthening Teacher Education
"Strengthening Teacher Education: The Challenges to College and University Leaders." The Journal of Higher Education, 60(2), pp. 235–236
Sex, morals, and schools
1989). Sex, morals, and schools. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 28, Sexuality Education, pp. 217-220
Beatrice Webb, Sydney Webb, Ben Tillett and the Australian socialist league's rivalry with the New South Wales Labor Party
It's Back to Basics, But Teachers Haven't Gotten the Word
Technicians and interpreters in moral crusades
The perpetuation of moral crusades requires the work of two types of moral entrepreneurs: “technicians,” who develop techniques of street‐level enforcement of rules; and “interpreters,” who legitimate the work of the technicians by providing expansive readings of applicable legal limitations. This study explores the work of these entrepreneurs by examining the development, use, and legal history of the “drug courier profile,” an abstract of chara…
Public Health and the Politics of School Immunization Requirements
Compulsory vaccination has contributed to the enormous success of US immunization programs. Movements to introduce broad “philosophical/personal beliefs” exemptions administered without adequate public health oversight threaten this success. Health professionals and child welfare advocates must address these developments in order to maintain the effectiveness of the nation’s mandatory school vaccination programs. We review recent events regarding…
Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought
Ernest Gellner was a unique scholar whose work covered areas as diverse as social anthropology, analytical philosophy, the sociology of the Islamic world, nationalism, psychoanalysis, East European transformations and kinship structures. Despite this diversity, there is an exceptional degree of unity and coherence in Gellner's work with his distinctly modernist, rationalist and liberal world-view evident in everything he wrote. His central proble…
On power, habitus, and (in)civility
Drawing on the work of Foucault, Elias, and Bauman, this article examines how the playground has articulated specific configurations of power/knowledge. Originally designed to cultivate virtue and counteract vice, the playgrounds of the past were to complete the discipline of the schoolroom, assisting the trained master to ‘direct’ the child’s thoughts, feelings, and actions. From its tentative beginnings in the work of Rousseau, the strategy of …
Governing the Future
This article examines how citizenship can be deployed as a technology of conduct, and how it combines with the technique of empowerment in instituting the behavioural norms that constitute a neo-liberal social order. It conducts a detailed analysis of policy innovations in the Republic of Ireland, where children have recently been recognized as 'active citizens'. This field of innovation is framed by the idea that children should be listened to a…
Political Power
The new wave of childhood studies
The article takes as its starting point a new wave of researchers who use concepts such as 'hybridity' and 'multiplicity' in a bid to move the study of childhood beyond the strictures of what Lee and Motzkau call 'bio-social dualism', whereby the division between the 'natural child' of developmental psychology and the 'social child' of socialization theory replicates a tendency in modern thought and practice to divide nature from culture. The art…
The Disfigured Ontology of Figurational Sociology
This article scrutinizes Norbert Elias's figurational sociology by focusing on its ontological foundations. The analytical spotlight is on the inherent tension between Elias's stance of normative neutrality and detachment, his naturalistic ontology, and an unyielding commitment to directional development. We show how Elias's social theory does not stand apart, as an external observer, from the figurations it seeks to explain. On the contrary, it …
The art of democracy
This article engages critically with the normative framing of socially engaged/collaborative art as a consensual/dissensual dichotomy, whereby consensual practices are equated with political abdication. This way of framing such practices gives rise to three significant problems: one concerns the passive positioning of viewers/participants relative to the authorial autonomy of the artwork; the second concerns an inadequate understanding of power; …
Childhood, Biosocial Power and the “Anthropological Machine”
This article examines how childhood has become a strategy that answers to questions concerning the (un)governability of life. The analysis is organized around the concept of “biosocial power,” which is shown to be a particular zone of intensity within the wider field of biopolitics. To grasp this intensity it is necessary to attend to the place of imagination in staging biosocial strategies, that is the specific ways in which childhood is both an…
Agonism
Gellner's genealogy of the open society
A decade before Foucault began to work with the related concepts of biopolitics and biopower, Gellner posed a series of questions which are suggestive of a similar line of inquiry. Gellner did not pursue this strand of his thought as an historical sociologist however. Instead he packaged it into a functionalist account of how industrial society reproduces itself. In Gellner's writings, biopolitics is both present and absent, like a redacted text.…
Academic freedom and the eye of power
Transparency is both a powerful idea and a technology of power associated with accountability, justice and democracy, which opposes the secretive and shadowy power of surveillance wielded by states and corporations. This article examines surveillance and transparency not as a dichotomy but as a constitutive relation in the field of academia, focusing specifically on ranking and rivalry in the context of competitive performance. Transparency-as-op…
The (anti-) politics of protest movements
What, if anything, does Occupy Wall Street have in common with the revolutionary wave of uprisings now known as the Arab Spring, or the Spanish 15-M movement with mass demonstrations in Bulgaria, o
Adolescent feedback on the Haemophilia Transition Programme between Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital and St. James’s Hospital Dublin Ireland
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
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