Monday, Feb 6th 2012
L’Humanite interview with Monique Pinçon-Charlot: “the rich have a money addiction that must be treated”
For sociologist Monique Pinçon-Charlot, the campaign against public deficits is an ideological weapon being used by neoliberals to do away with social rights all over the world.
Among the budgetary proposals to be discussed by the French government is a move [...]
The current economic crisis in Ireland has highlighted many of the problems in Irish society that perhaps we all knew were there to a greater or lesser degree. For me the one interesting aspect of the past three years has come in our media. It has been discussed elsewhere (see Gavan Titley’s piece in [...]
An Interview with Ashis Nandy.
Prof Ashis Nandy is a well known social thinker and social psychologist based at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. He has been an outspoken critic of science, modernity and secularism. His writings since the early 1980s have been extremely influential, in conjunction with Edward Said’s critique [...]
New Left Project | Erik Olin Wright Interview
Interview on New Left Project with Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin Erik Olin Wright about his new book Envisioning Real Utopias. He says that the anti-Capitalist left has been very good at critiquing what is wrong with capitalism but has not been able to [...]
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
SOCIOLOGY LECTURE SERIES 2010
Prof James Wickham
Head of School of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Financial markets and social power - the new inequalities of turbo-capitalism
Wednesday 10 February 2010
7.00- 9.30 pm
Synge lecture theatre, Arts Building, TCD
A L L W E L C O M E
Since the 1990s, anthropologists working in Ireland have increasingly concerned themselves with ideas of class and class relations. Previously, the central themes were rural life, community, kinship and social structure. In 1932 Conrad M. Arensberg and Solon T. Kimball undertook a two-year study of small communities in Co. Clare. The resultant publications, An Irish Countryman [...]
…and this brings me to the third point which goes to the root of the whole matter: that the relation to capital and labour, employer and employed, should not be one of hostility and suspicion and self-seeking, but one of sympathy and co-operation, each caring for the interests of the other as if they were [...]
Night is gone, a dawn
comes up in birds and sounds of the city.
There will be light
to live by, things
to see: my eyes will lift
to where the sun in vermilion sits,
and I will love thee and have pity. (Michael Hartnett)
I’m sitting on the small fenced stone wall that surrounds the central bank on Dame Street, [...]
