ResearchNIRSA
Research at NIRSA on governance
NIRSA is a research institution set up in 2000 (PTRLI funded) whose remit is to undertake interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of global processes as they impact regional and spatial development in Ireland. The Governance and Development Research Group (GDRG) are a subgroup of this Institute whose research is dedicated to the examination of emerging tensions related to political identity, representation and governance which global processes are generating at different spatial scales. Particular themes to be explored in this context include sustainability of emerging forms of socio-economic development and the creation of appropriate forms of participatory democracy. This has most recently led to their involvement in a number of networked proposals on e-politics and e-democracy over the past six months.
Particular expertise in critical social research methodologies and on socio-economic development and citizenship underpin NIRSA’s work and they are now embarking on addressing new ‘democratising’ technologies, as a feature of globalising Ireland.
Particularly relevant publications include:
- Fagan (May 2002) "Globalisation and Culture: Ireland in the Frame", The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.
- Fagan (2003 forthcoming) "Culture, Globalisation and Contemporary Irish Society". In Coulter, C. and Coleman, S. The End of History?: Critical Approaches to the Celtic Tiger, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Fagan (2001) "Globalization, Identity and 'Ireland'". In Danks and Kennedy (Eds.) Globalization and Identities: Reconstructing the Local, Palgrave Publishers.
- Munck (1999) "Engendering Conflict; Women, War and Peace". In Munck and de Silva Eds. Post-modern Insurgency: Political Identity, Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Macmillan Press.
- Munck and Frank Cass (1997) "Gender, Citizenship and National Identity in Northern Ireland" In Alan O’Day, The Troubles and Society in Northern Ireland.
