• Poverty, politics and global justice 

  Fawad, Maliha (University College Cork, 2017)

  This thesis is an investigation into the ethics and politics of global poverty. The main focus will be on the multidimensional concept of poverty in relation to, global politics and justice in the context of contemporary ...
• Youth and austerity in the city: geographies of precarity in disadvantaged urban areas in Ireland 

  van Lanen, Sander (University College Cork, 2017)

  This thesis presents a qualitative understanding of the transformations of urban life and space in the context of austerity. It argues that the lifeworld of disadvantaged urban youth increasingly tightened as opportunities ...
• Collective responsibility in the risk society: health as a catalyst for socio-technological innovation, ecological citizenship and sustainability 

  Mooney, Robert (University College Cork, 2015)

  In 1987 the Brundtland Report defined sustainable development as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. This widely employed definition has successfully ...
• The masks of Mnēmosynē: modulations of memory from ancient Greece to modern Paris 

  O'Sullivan, Ian (University College Cork, 2016)

  This thesis traces some of the modulations in the figuration, role and functioning of memory from the Mycenaean civilisation to the Hellenistic period of ancient Greece before taking up a reading of the modern continental ...
• Human trafficking in Ireland – reconstituting the rights identity of trafficked persons 

  Stapleton, Patricia (University College Cork, 2017)

  This thesis critically analyses state responses to human trafficking in Ireland and is positioned conceptually and theoretically within the branch of critical antitrafficking studies (Lindquist, 2013: 322). This approach ...

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