http://hdl.handle.net/10468/218 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:00:03 GMT 2013-05-19T17:00:03Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1078 Interrogating medical tourism: Ireland, abortion, and mobility rights Gilmartin, Mary; White, Allen Medical tourism in Ireland, like in many Western states, is built around assumptions about individual agency, choice, possibility, and mobility. One specific form of medical tourism—the flow of women from Ireland traveling in order to secure an abortion—disrupts and contradicts these assumptions. One legacy of the bitter, contentious political and legal battles surrounding abortion in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s has been securing the right of mobility for all pregnant Irish citizens to cross international borders to secure an abortion. However, these mobility rights are contingent upon nationality, social class, and race, and they have enabled successive Irish governments to avoid any responsibility for providing safe, legal, and affordable abortion services in Ireland. Nearly twenty years after the X case discussed here, the pregnant female body moving over international borders—entering and leaving the state—is still interpreted as problematic and threatening to the Irish state. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1078 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/959 The second city's second city Linehan, Denis Krčma, Ed Down on Docklands this week even the leaves on the trees are smiling. Long evenings are on their way to midsummer and the tree-­‐green canopy over Centre Park Road frames strollers, joggers, cyclists, mothers with little daughters, sleeping babies in three-­‐wheels all-­‐terrain buggies, intertwined lovers and rushing power-­‐walkers – all moving through the ruins of a past economy. Leading to the Marina and the small harbour at Blackrock, this boulevard of tall verdant hedges hides the old factories, warehouses and yards that once heaved with industry, turning out tractors and cars, tyres, fertilizer and other products whose precise form is lost, but whose presence lingers in the design of the workshops. Glimpses into vacant lots through wire fences reveal a population of dusty lorries and vans that look like they might have been parked for years, together with machines in various shades of steel blue, yellow and mustard, whose obscure uses conjure up images of manufacture and days spent labouring.... Enclave Review Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10468/959 2010-08-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/931 Re-ordering the urban archipelago: Kenya vision 2030, street trade and the battle for Nairobi city centre Linehan, Denis The urban morphology and social and economic topography of Nairobi is sharply distinguished, heavily fortified and distinctively regulated. This form of urban territorial organization is an outcome of the legacies of colonialism and deeply inequitable local practices which continue to enforce Nairobi’s relationship to the foreign investor and the tourist rather than support the rights of the urban inhabitant. The accelerating impact of neo-liberal economic planning continues to worsen these urban inequalities. In this context, this paper explores the influence of Kenya Vision 2030 on the restructuring of Nairobi and assesses its implication for street vendors, who have been increasingly displaced from trading in the City Centre. Their future and the attempts to re-order Nairobi city centre has emerged as a key site were debates over the global and local versions of the city and the contest between different developmental futures are acted out. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10468/931 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1076 Teaching students to read the news via representations of asylum seekers in British newspapers White, Allen Research by geographers on using news media in the classroom has tended to concentrate on either content or discourse analysis of newspapers. These approaches hold in common an implicit understanding that what news stories say happened is not as important as the language, metaphors, images and representations used in news stories. In this paper the author discuss Bell's (1999) approach to analysing news stories, which lies somewhere between content and discourse analysis. This approach works through emphasizing the ‘event’ and ‘time’ structure of stories as they are presented to us in newspapers. Through building up the ‘event’ and time structure of news stories about asylum we can put ourselves in a position to see what the story does—and does not—say. In turn this approach shows how our understandings of seemingly simple news stories are often based on assumptions, ambiguities and discrepancies that support and are based within exploitative power relationships. Thu, 01 Jul 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1076 2004-07-01T00:00:00Z