John Morrissey
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 999873 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Morrissey |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Morrissey |
| ASSINATURA | MORRISSEY J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4986-776X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 138 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Climate change and coastal communities
Climate change poses significant threats to coastal communities, particularly in the Global South, where limited adaptive capacities and weak coping mechanisms exacerbate vulnerability. Coastal areas experience hazards, impacting both natural environments and coastal livelihoods. This study reviews the concepts of vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience within the context of disaster risk reduction using a systematic narrative approach. The stu…
Join the Circle
The Circular Economy (CE) has been identified as a promising tool for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 on responsible production and consumption. Instead of making things, using them, and then throwing them away, CE advocates for efficient use and reuse of materials and resources to reduce waste. While CE has gained prominence over the past decade, its discourse has been largely shaped by Western perspectives, often overlook…
Fueling homes and lighting lives
Towards a fit-for-purpose climate change education
Blue Economy
Geography has engaged in insightful discussions on how to understand, analyze, criticize, and implement the blue economy. United Nations agencies, Small Island Developing States, and increased academic interest in oceans have played important roles in the global adoption of the blue economy idea, that is, the sustainable exploitation of marine and coastal resources. Geographical research on the blue economy has addressed key themes such as econom…
Understanding Early Modern Beer
Beer was a staple of early modern diets across northern Europe and the Atlantic World. While its profound social, economic, and cultural significance is well established, little is known about the nature and quality of the drink itself, particularly its nutritional characteristics. Until now, attempts to estimate calorie and alcohol content have been monodisciplinary in approach, involving either theoretical calculations based on grain content, o…
Where the power lies
This critical review lays down the fundamentals for rethinking just energy transition. It reviews the theoretical perspectives of energy justice, socio‐technical transitions (STTs), and political ecology and presents a plausible and useful way to approach a just low‐carbon transition using Political Ecology as a broad framework. This Political Ecology framework for Sustainable Energy Transition (PESET) addresses power issues associated with low‐c…
Coastal communities, blue economy and the climate crisis
Current framing of the blue economy is problematic and deficient in a number of key aspects, specifically in terms of how resilience and justice are currently understood and applied in blue economy discourse. A more holistic and comprehensive understanding and framing of what a sustainable blue economy is, is required to avoid perpetuation of the ecological and social problems of conventional economic growth. New understandings of blue economy wh…
(In)justice and the blue economy
While the ocean space has long been ignored by social sciences, the past 15 years have witnessed an increased interest in the marine environment by scholars in Human Geography. The academic literature on the blue economy, almost non-existent a few years ago, is now burgeoning. The academic debate has offered some critical assessment of blue economy initiatives, but more needs to be done to address the true place of environmental protection within…
Planetary Precarity and ‘More-Than-Human Security’
COVID-19 has elevated anew the import of holistically conceiving human-environmental well-being and tackling the overarching precarities of our ecologies, societies and public health in strategies of securitization. This paper considers the key challenge of reimagining securitization in the aftermath of COVID-19 and makes two core arguments. The first is that in addressing precarity a key starting point lies in being mindful of how it is differen…
Eingegangene Bücher
Just energy transitions? Social inequities, vulnerabilities and unintended consequences
The transitions literature has framed energy transitions as a process involving material and social consequences. Such radical changes can also be viewed as constituting discursive dimensions, involving debate, idea exchange and value positioning. The implementation of a biomass energy system in residential buildings in a socioeconomically deprived community near Liverpool, UK, is investigated for its acceptance by, and impacts on, the community.…
Affordability, security, sustainability? Grassroots community energy visions from Liverpool, United Kingdom
Envisioning societal futures for systemic low carbon transition is key to supporting the emergence of new configurations of the energy system. Such visions or ‘imaginaries’ facilitate wider societal support for system change. Given the urgency of the decarbonisation agenda, societal understandings of transitions processes and community ideas and visions about pathways for change assume a key role. The paper addresses an important gap in knowledge…
Subaltern learnings
The United Nations’ invocation of ‘human security’ a generation ago promised a world increasingly governed by a ‘people-centred’ security agenda. In this paper we focus on arguably the most vital global security challenge faced throughout the planet today: climate resilience. We outline how advancing smart climate action and securing climate resilience can be aided by securitization practices that recall the earlier emphases of the United Nations…
Towards a human security vision of global climate action
The blue economy
There is currently no generally accepted definition for the "blue economy," despite the term becoming common parlance over the past decade. The concept and practice have spawned a rich, and diverse, body of scholarly activity. Yet despite this emerging body of literature, there is ambiguity around what the blue economy is, what it encapsulates, and its practices. Thus far, the existing literature has failed to theorise key geographical concepts s…
Towards Coastal Resilience and Sustainability
The Long War
I must single out the late Neil Smith for special thanks.I was very close to Neil at cuny, struggling like others to help him as the seriousness of his illness became clearer.I look back now with a deep sense of loss on
Geoeconomics in the Long War
In Neil Smith's American Empire (2003, University of California Press), he makes the case that the current moment of US global ambition is characterized by a network of imperial power that is “exercised in the first place through the world market and only secondarily, when and if necessary, in geopolitical terms”. For Smith, it was crucial that in the din of US geopolitics in the post‐9/11 period we did not lose sight of “the deeper geo‐economic …
US Central Command and liberal imperial reach
For over 30 years, the grand strategy of one of the most important commands in theUSmilitary, Central Command (CENTCOM), has consistently held fast to a commitment to neoliberal capitalism and an ostensibly free-market global economy. Any accrued national or global economic benefits are impossible to chart, of course, and soCENTCOM's securitization discourse relies upon vaguer, yet promissory logics about 'keeping the global economy open'. My aim…
Participative critical enquiry in graduate field-based learning
This paper outlines a critical pedagogic approach to field-based learning (FBL) at graduate level. Drawing on student experience stemming from a FBL module and as part of an MA programme in Environment, Society and Development, the paper addresses the complexities associated with student-led, participative critical enquiry during fieldwork in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The paper examines emerging student discourses through a group assessment a…
Regimes of performance
Universities today inescapably find themselves part of nationally and globally competitive networks that appear firmly inflected by neoliberal concerns of rankings, benchmarking and productivity. This, of course, has in turn led to progressively anticipated and regulated forms of academic subjectivity that many fear are overly econo-centric in design. What I wish to explore in this paper is how, emanating from prevailing neoliberal concepts of in…
Securitizing instability
This paper examines the recent broadening of the US military's overseas mission into what it calls 'full spectrum operations' and critiques how it is being enabled by what I term 'full spectrum law'. The paper explores the important doctrinal shifts that took place in the US military from 2005, when it declared for the first time a commitment to 'stability operations' as a military responsibility equal in status to offense and deterrence. This, I…
Housing and transport expenditure
Traditional measures of housing affordability are expressed solely as a function of housing cost and income. This one-dimensional view of affordability ignores transportation costs, which represent a sizable proportion of household expenditure. Conventional measures are problematic due to the extent to which housing location influences transportation costs. Consequently, narrowly construed definitions of housing affordability are misleading indic…
Key Concepts in Historical Geography
Introduction Historical Geographies in the Present Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies Imperialism and Empire Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism Development Nation-Building and Geopolitics Territory and Place Identity and the Nation Imaginative Geographies and Geopolitics Historical Hierarchies Class, Hegemony and Resistance Race Gender The Built Environment Nature and the Environment Making Sense of Urban Settlement Geographies of Urban Morpholo…
Regimes of performance
Universities today inescapably find themselves part of nationally and globally competitive networks that appear firmly inflected by neoliberal concerns of rankings, benchmarking and productivity. This, of course, has in turn led to progressively anticipated and regulated forms of academic subjectivity that many fear are overly econo-centric in design. What I wish to explore in this paper is how, emanating from prevailing neoliberal concepts of in…
Housing and transport expenditure
Traditional measures of housing affordability are expressed solely as a function of housing cost and income. This one-dimensional view of affordability ignores transportation costs, which represent a sizable proportion of household expenditure. Conventional measures are problematic due to the extent to which housing location influences transportation costs. Consequently, narrowly construed definitions of housing affordability are misleading indic…
The blue economy
There is currently no generally accepted definition for the "blue economy," despite the term becoming common parlance over the past decade. The concept and practice have spawned a rich, and diverse, body of scholarly activity. Yet despite this emerging body of literature, there is ambiguity around what the blue economy is, what it encapsulates, and its practices. Thus far, the existing literature has failed to theorise key geographical concepts s…
Liberal Lawfare and Biopolitics
Two basic forms of ‘lawfare’ are employed by the United States in its enactment of the war on terror, both of which have a biopolitical focus. The first strategy has been well documented. 1 1. See, for example: D. Gregory, ‘The Black Flag: Guantánamo Bay and the Space of Exception’, Geografiska Annaler B 88/4 (2006) pp. 405–427; S. Reid-Henry, ‘Exceptional Sovereignty? Guantanamo Bay and the Re-Colonial Present’, Antipode 39/4 (2007) pp. 627–648;…
Cultural geographies of the contact zone
In writing about the social and cultural geographies of the past, we frequently reinforce notions of difference by using neatly delineated ethnic terms of reference that often superscribe the complexities of reality on the ground. Referring to ‘Gaels’ and ‘Galls’, demarcating ‘native’ and ‘foreign’ worlds in late medieval Ireland, is but one example. We often exaggerate, too, the boundedness of geographical space by speaking more of frontiers and…
Architects of Empire
This paper considers a key academic support of US geopolitics overseas, which I term the “military–strategic studies complex”. The paper begins by outlining the development of Strategic Studies in the US since the early 1980s. It then uses the example of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments to work through a discussion of the palpable agency of the military–strategic studies complex in advancing a dual military–economic securitizati…
Closing the Neoliberal Gap
When US military commanders refer today to the “long war”, they could more instructively refer to the “long war of securitization”, involving both practices of war and reconstruction that have always been based on a therapeutic logic of preemption and an endgame of protection from global economic risk. Since the early 1980s, the centrepiece of US foreign policy has been the securitization of the Persian Gulf region, with the newly created United …
Key Concepts in Historical Geography
Introduction Historical Geographies in the Present Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies Imperialism and Empire Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism Development Nation-Building and Geopolitics Territory and Place Identity and the Nation Imaginative Geographies and Geopolitics Historical Hierarchies Class, Hegemony and Resistance Race Gender The Built Environment Nature and the Environment Making Sense of Urban Settlement Geographies of Urban Morpholo…
Where the power lies
This critical review lays down the fundamentals for rethinking just energy transition. It reviews the theoretical perspectives of energy justice, socio‐technical transitions (STTs), and political ecology and presents a plausible and useful way to approach a just low‐carbon transition using Political Ecology as a broad framework. This Political Ecology framework for Sustainable Energy Transition (PESET) addresses power issues associated with low‐c…
Just energy transitions? Social inequities, vulnerabilities and unintended consequences
The transitions literature has framed energy transitions as a process involving material and social consequences. Such radical changes can also be viewed as constituting discursive dimensions, involving debate, idea exchange and value positioning. The implementation of a biomass energy system in residential buildings in a socioeconomically deprived community near Liverpool, UK, is investigated for its acceptance by, and impacts on, the community.…
Coastal communities, blue economy and the climate crisis
Current framing of the blue economy is problematic and deficient in a number of key aspects, specifically in terms of how resilience and justice are currently understood and applied in blue economy discourse. A more holistic and comprehensive understanding and framing of what a sustainable blue economy is, is required to avoid perpetuation of the ecological and social problems of conventional economic growth. New understandings of blue economy wh…
Towards a human security vision of global climate action
Geoeconomics in the Long War
In Neil Smith's American Empire (2003, University of California Press), he makes the case that the current moment of US global ambition is characterized by a network of imperial power that is “exercised in the first place through the world market and only secondarily, when and if necessary, in geopolitical terms”. For Smith, it was crucial that in the din of US geopolitics in the post‐9/11 period we did not lose sight of “the deeper geo‐economic …
Securitizing instability
This paper examines the recent broadening of the US military's overseas mission into what it calls 'full spectrum operations' and critiques how it is being enabled by what I term 'full spectrum law'. The paper explores the important doctrinal shifts that took place in the US military from 2005, when it declared for the first time a commitment to 'stability operations' as a military responsibility equal in status to offense and deterrence. This, I…
Zero emission housing
Towards a fit-for-purpose climate change education
Participative critical enquiry in graduate field-based learning
This paper outlines a critical pedagogic approach to field-based learning (FBL) at graduate level. Drawing on student experience stemming from a FBL module and as part of an MA programme in Environment, Society and Development, the paper addresses the complexities associated with student-led, participative critical enquiry during fieldwork in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The paper examines emerging student discourses through a group assessment a…
The relationship between settlement population size and sustainable development measured by two sustainability metrics
Practical appraisal of sustainable development—Methodologies for sustainability measurement at settlement level
Understanding Early Modern Beer
Beer was a staple of early modern diets across northern Europe and the Atlantic World. While its profound social, economic, and cultural significance is well established, little is known about the nature and quality of the drink itself, particularly its nutritional characteristics. Until now, attempts to estimate calorie and alcohol content have been monodisciplinary in approach, involving either theoretical calculations based on grain content, o…
Affordability, security, sustainability? Grassroots community energy visions from Liverpool, United Kingdom
Envisioning societal futures for systemic low carbon transition is key to supporting the emergence of new configurations of the energy system. Such visions or ‘imaginaries’ facilitate wider societal support for system change. Given the urgency of the decarbonisation agenda, societal understandings of transitions processes and community ideas and visions about pathways for change assume a key role. The paper addresses an important gap in knowledge…
Subaltern learnings
The United Nations’ invocation of ‘human security’ a generation ago promised a world increasingly governed by a ‘people-centred’ security agenda. In this paper we focus on arguably the most vital global security challenge faced throughout the planet today: climate resilience. We outline how advancing smart climate action and securing climate resilience can be aided by securitization practices that recall the earlier emphases of the United Nations…
Field-based learning
In 2009, Geography at National University of Ireland, Galway, launched a new taught master's programme, the MA in Environment, Society and Development. The vision for the programme was to engage students in the analysis and critique of the array of interventionary practices of development and securitization in our contemporary world. A range of modules were set up focusing on a number of interrelated concerns, including “geopolitics and security”…
A Strategic Project Appraisal framework for ecologically sustainable urban infrastructure
(In)justice and the blue economy
While the ocean space has long been ignored by social sciences, the past 15 years have witnessed an increased interest in the marine environment by scholars in Human Geography. The academic literature on the blue economy, almost non-existent a few years ago, is now burgeoning. The academic debate has offered some critical assessment of blue economy initiatives, but more needs to be done to address the true place of environmental protection within…
Encountering Colonialism
Restricted accessAbstractFirst published June 2001Encountering Colonialism: Gaelic-Irish Responses to New English Expansion in Early Modern West Tipperary, c.1541–1641J. M. MorrisseyView all authors and affiliationsVolume 28, Issue 1https://doi.org/10.1177/033248930102800107
Cultural geographies of the contact zone
In writing about the social and cultural geographies of the past, we frequently reinforce notions of difference by using neatly delineated ethnic terms of reference that often superscribe the complexities of reality on the ground. Referring to ‘Gaels’ and ‘Galls’, demarcating ‘native’ and ‘foreign’ worlds in late medieval Ireland, is but one example. We often exaggerate, too, the boundedness of geographical space by speaking more of frontiers and…
Cultural Geography
Cultural Geography
Practical appraisal of sustainable development—Methodologies for sustainability measurement at settlement level
The relationship between settlement population size and sustainable development measured by two sustainability metrics
Architects of Empire
This paper considers a key academic support of US geopolitics overseas, which I term the “military–strategic studies complex”. The paper begins by outlining the development of Strategic Studies in the US since the early 1980s. It then uses the example of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments to work through a discussion of the palpable agency of the military–strategic studies complex in advancing a dual military–economic securitizati…
Closing the Neoliberal Gap
When US military commanders refer today to the “long war”, they could more instructively refer to the “long war of securitization”, involving both practices of war and reconstruction that have always been based on a therapeutic logic of preemption and an endgame of protection from global economic risk. Since the early 1980s, the centrepiece of US foreign policy has been the securitization of the Persian Gulf region, with the newly created United …
Liberal Lawfare and Biopolitics
Two basic forms of ‘lawfare’ are employed by the United States in its enactment of the war on terror, both of which have a biopolitical focus. The first strategy has been well documented. 1 1. See, for example: D. Gregory, ‘The Black Flag: Guantánamo Bay and the Space of Exception’, Geografiska Annaler B 88/4 (2006) pp. 405–427; S. Reid-Henry, ‘Exceptional Sovereignty? Guantanamo Bay and the Re-Colonial Present’, Antipode 39/4 (2007) pp. 627–648;…
A Strategic Project Appraisal framework for ecologically sustainable urban infrastructure
Field-based learning
In 2009, Geography at National University of Ireland, Galway, launched a new taught master's programme, the MA in Environment, Society and Development. The vision for the programme was to engage students in the analysis and critique of the array of interventionary practices of development and securitization in our contemporary world. A range of modules were set up focusing on a number of interrelated concerns, including “geopolitics and security”…
Housing and transport expenditure
Traditional measures of housing affordability are expressed solely as a function of housing cost and income. This one-dimensional view of affordability ignores transportation costs, which represent a sizable proportion of household expenditure. Conventional measures are problematic due to the extent to which housing location influences transportation costs. Consequently, narrowly construed definitions of housing affordability are misleading indic…
Key Concepts in Historical Geography
Introduction Historical Geographies in the Present Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies Imperialism and Empire Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism Development Nation-Building and Geopolitics Territory and Place Identity and the Nation Imaginative Geographies and Geopolitics Historical Hierarchies Class, Hegemony and Resistance Race Gender The Built Environment Nature and the Environment Making Sense of Urban Settlement Geographies of Urban Morpholo…
Zero emission housing
Participative critical enquiry in graduate field-based learning
This paper outlines a critical pedagogic approach to field-based learning (FBL) at graduate level. Drawing on student experience stemming from a FBL module and as part of an MA programme in Environment, Society and Development, the paper addresses the complexities associated with student-led, participative critical enquiry during fieldwork in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The paper examines emerging student discourses through a group assessment a…
Regimes of performance
Universities today inescapably find themselves part of nationally and globally competitive networks that appear firmly inflected by neoliberal concerns of rankings, benchmarking and productivity. This, of course, has in turn led to progressively anticipated and regulated forms of academic subjectivity that many fear are overly econo-centric in design. What I wish to explore in this paper is how, emanating from prevailing neoliberal concepts of in…
Securitizing instability
This paper examines the recent broadening of the US military's overseas mission into what it calls 'full spectrum operations' and critiques how it is being enabled by what I term 'full spectrum law'. The paper explores the important doctrinal shifts that took place in the US military from 2005, when it declared for the first time a commitment to 'stability operations' as a military responsibility equal in status to offense and deterrence. This, I…
US Central Command and liberal imperial reach
For over 30 years, the grand strategy of one of the most important commands in theUSmilitary, Central Command (CENTCOM), has consistently held fast to a commitment to neoliberal capitalism and an ostensibly free-market global economy. Any accrued national or global economic benefits are impossible to chart, of course, and soCENTCOM's securitization discourse relies upon vaguer, yet promissory logics about 'keeping the global economy open'. My aim…
The Long War
I must single out the late Neil Smith for special thanks.I was very close to Neil at cuny, struggling like others to help him as the seriousness of his illness became clearer.I look back now with a deep sense of loss on
Geoeconomics in the Long War
In Neil Smith's American Empire (2003, University of California Press), he makes the case that the current moment of US global ambition is characterized by a network of imperial power that is “exercised in the first place through the world market and only secondarily, when and if necessary, in geopolitical terms”. For Smith, it was crucial that in the din of US geopolitics in the post‐9/11 period we did not lose sight of “the deeper geo‐economic …
Towards Coastal Resilience and Sustainability
Towards a human security vision of global climate action
The blue economy
There is currently no generally accepted definition for the "blue economy," despite the term becoming common parlance over the past decade. The concept and practice have spawned a rich, and diverse, body of scholarly activity. Yet despite this emerging body of literature, there is ambiguity around what the blue economy is, what it encapsulates, and its practices. Thus far, the existing literature has failed to theorise key geographical concepts s…
Eingegangene Bücher
Just energy transitions? Social inequities, vulnerabilities and unintended consequences
The transitions literature has framed energy transitions as a process involving material and social consequences. Such radical changes can also be viewed as constituting discursive dimensions, involving debate, idea exchange and value positioning. The implementation of a biomass energy system in residential buildings in a socioeconomically deprived community near Liverpool, UK, is investigated for its acceptance by, and impacts on, the community.…
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