The Right to the City: Re-presentations of Dublin in Contemporary Irish Fiction

Smyth, Gerry

doi:10.1057/9780230287990_2

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“…It circumvents the fact that ‘[f]or several decades, there have been concerted efforts by women in Irish HE for something to be done about representation at senior levels’ (Coate and Howson, 2014: 4). Indeed, ‘the low status of women working in academia’ has been raised from the 1980s (Smyth, 1995: 12; Hodgins, 2021)…”

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Shattered glass piling at the bottom: The ‘problem’ with gender equality policy for higher education

Ruggi

Duvvury

2022

Critical Social Policy

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Since 2014, gender equality has gained momentum in Irish higher education. Feminist organising and media attention resulted in an ‘almost-perfect storm of pressure’ to which the state responded by developing an ‘ambitious and radical’ policy. Employing Bacchi's methodology (WPR), this article demonstrates the problem of gender inequality has been gradually narrowed to address the lack of ‘women’ in senior positions. Competing problematisations were marginalised. The unequal distribution of care work in and out of higher education was ignored, silencing the gendered experiences of academics and non-academics, particularly precarious and outsourced staff. The policy machinery is found to reduce gender transformation to state-led stages and sideline feminist demands, highlighting the need to investigate the role of gender expertise and national statistics. The focus on the glass ceiling (a trend across Europe) is a form of ‘gender branding’ drawing on and reproducing neo-colonial progress-scales while stalling intersectional agendas.

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Shattered glass piling at the bottom: The ‘problem’ with gender equality policy for higher education

Ruggi

Duvvury

2022

Critical Social Policy

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“…Doyle's Dublin, however, was unrecognisable as that 'word city' around which Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom strolled earlier in the century. Indeed, it was not really 'Dublin' at all but a community of former cityand country-dwellers displaced from their native locales to housing estates on the edge of what was rapidly becoming a vast city-region (Smyth 2000). All the Commitments live, work and socialise in Barrytown, not in Dublin.…”

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“…Besides reinvigorating fields (such as geography and built environment) traditionally concerned with the social, cultural and political organisation of spatial practices, the spatial imagination also began to make itself felt in less obvious disciplines. Although its natural home may turn out to be cultural studies, other fields such as philosophy, sociology and (even) literature have rediscovered a spatial imagination informing their most basic assumptions and practices (Fitter 1995;Gregory 1994;Keith and Pike 1993;Naess 1989;Schama 1995;Smyth 2001). Working within this context our aim is to bring together a number of essays which would work across marginal territories but which will also allow for a re-imagining of these spaces.…”

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