Thursday, Sep 2nd 2010
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, [...]