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Interview with Prof. Malesevic on "nationalism"

The rise of the far-right, nationalist and racist parties in Europe is the last warning for the European Institutions. Prof. Malesevic (UCD Sociology) is featured on this topic in the online news site "solutionism". See here for the full article.

 

Special issue on "Empires and Nation-states" edited by Prof. Malesevic

New special issue of the journal "thesis eleven" edited by Prof. Malesevic (UCD Sociology). The issue focuses on the complex and contradictory relationships of empires and nation-states. It contests the traditional views that posit nation-states and empires as the mutually exclusive forms of state organization. For more information on the special issue see here. 

Successful Masters/PhD information session

The UCD Sociology faculty welcomed prospective Masters/PhD students at our information event. Our former student Cormac O’Donnell, Dublin City Council, Graduate MSocSc Migration, Race & Ethnicity, was talking about career opportunities for Sociology graduates. In case you missed the information session, but are thinking about one of our Masters/PhD degrees see http://www.ucd.ie/sociology/study/graduateprogrammes/

Podcast with Dr. Aiken on privacy, online crime and CSI: Cyber

In this new episode of the School of Sociology podcast, our students (Mark Doyle, Ryan Nolan) and faculty (Thomas Grund, Eoin Flaherty, Gerry Boucher) talk with Dr. Mary Aiken (UCD) about her world-selling book "The Cyber effect", online crime and how she became a producer of CSI: Cyber.

Book launch: Bourdieu's Theory of the State

Associate Professor Steve Loyal (UCD Sociology) published the new book "Bourdieu's Theory of the State: A Critical Introduction" with Palgrave Macmillan. The book will be launched on 26 April, 5pm in the UCD Common Room, B104, Newman Building, UCD. Everybody is welcome.

The book critically examines Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the state by assessing its theoretical and empirical value. Steve Loyal situates Bourdieu's work within the context of both classical and modern theories of the state, providing a comprehensive frame of reference. Finally, Loyal discusses Bourdieu's theoretical limitations and projects how his theory of the state might be utilized in the future.

Dr. David joins School with Marie-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Dr. Lea David received a prestigious Marie-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship and will join the School of Sociology at UCD in 2017 (under the supervision of Prof. Sinisa Malesivic). Lea finished her PhD at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben Gurion University, Israel. We are looking forward to welcome her at UCD!

Her work investigates the ways in which the human rights understanding of memorialization processes advocates, understands, promotes and mandates supposedly universal memorialization standards, asking whether in so doing it weakens or by contrast, often strengthens ethnic nationalism. Five case studies will be comparatively analyzed: Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Israel and Palestine. This research will provide a new perspective on the impact that mandating human rights memorialization standards has on the perception of the “self” and “other” and nationalist ideologies. 

Click here for an interview with Lea.

Podcast with Prof. Blossfeld on education, online dating and new kinds of social science research

In this new episode of the School of Sociology podcast, our students (Mark Doyle, Gráinne McKeever) and faculty (Thomas Grund, Eoin Flaherty) talk with Prof. Hans-Peter Blossfeld from the European University Institute in Florence about education, online dating and new kinds of social science research. Prof. Blossfeld is a world-known expert in the sociology of education.