Category Political geography
SJD8 #15: Staying with the Local: Acting with Resilience
This is the final blog in the series ‘Spatial Justice in Dublin 8’ (SJD8 #15), as a contribution to Maynooth University Social Justice Week 2022 in partnership with Maynooth Geography and Common Ground. Common Ground has been working since 1999 as a local arts organisation in the complex, constantly changing inner-city areas across Dublin 8 […]
SJD8 #14: ‘Who is it For?’ Art, Life, and Politics in Dublin 8 and Beyond: A Conversation with artist Kate O’Shea (Part 2)
This is the fourteenth in a series of blogs on ‘Spatial Justice in Dublin 8’ (SJD8 #14), as a contribution to Maynooth University Social Justice Week 2022. This is the second part of ‘A Conversation with artist Kate O’Shea’ (Figure 1), in which MA Spatial Justice, MA and PG Diploma Geography students at Maynooth University […]
SJD8 #11: Geographies of Violence Against Women and Creating Safe Spaces in Inchicore
This is the eleventh in a series of blogs on ‘Spatial Justice in Dublin 8’ (SJD8 #11), as a contribution to Maynooth University Social Justice Week 2022. In the world today, many women experience different types of violence, such as sexual assault, physical violence, and emotional violence. Violence against women (VAW) often starts in a […]
SJD8 #9: Activism and Housing In/Justice in Dublin 8
This is the ninth in a series of blogs on ‘Spatial Justice in Dublin 8’ (SJD8 #9), as a contribution to Maynooth University Social Justice Week 2022. Introduction Kitchin and Hubbard (1999: 5) discuss how different approaches in human geography are committed to exposing ‘the socio-spatial processes that (re)-produce inequalities between people and places; challenge […]
SJD8 #7: Mapping 1911 New Kilmainham Ward/Inchicore: A Representation of Social Granularity in Dublin 8
This is the seventh in a series of blogs on ‘Spatial Justice in Dublin 8’ (SJD8 #7), as a contribution to Maynooth University Social Justice Week 2022. Overview This blog is an effort to map the social granularity of Dublin 8, in particular the New Kilmainham Ward (NKW) in 1911, with a specific focus on […]
SJD8 #6: Jobs for the Boys, a Home for the Family? Multi-Generational Employment at the Inchicore Railway Works in 1911
This is the sixth in a series of blogs on ‘Spatial Justice in Dublin 8’ (SJD8 #6), as a contribution to Maynooth University Social Justice Week 2022. Introduction The establishment of the Railway Works (RW) at Inchicore in 1845 by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company (GS&WR) transformed Inchicore from a predominantly rural area, […]
SJD8 #5: Inchicore as Battleground: Spatial Conflict and Dublin’s Working Class, 1902-1914
This is the fifth in a series of blogs on ‘Spatial Justice in Dublin 8’ (SJD8 #5), as a contribution to Maynooth University Social Justice Week 2022. Dublin 8 is an area that should be of great interest to all advocates of spatial justice. The social and economic challenges faced by working-class communities, in the […]
SJD8 #4: Dublin’s Garden Cemeteries: Comparing Iconography, Design, and Community Social Space
This is the fourth in a series of blogs on ‘Spatial Justice in Dublin 8’ (SJD8 #4), as a contribution to Maynooth University Social Justice Week 2022. This blog post will discuss the historic iconographies of Goldenbridge Cemetery in Inchicore, Dublin 8, and Mount Jerome Cemetery in Harold’s Cross, County Dublin. Iconography is a process […]
SJD8 #2: Historical Geographies of Injustice in Dublin 8
This is the second in a series of blogs on ‘Spatial Justice in Dublin 8’ (SJD8 #2), as a contribution to Maynooth University Social Justice Week 2022. Geographies of Injustice Geography is the study of the Earth as our Home. Three central concepts in Geography are Environment, Place, and Space. All three of these concepts […]
SJD8 #1: Sustainable Communities and the Publicly-Engaged University: Introduction to the ‘Spatial Justice in Dublin 8’ blog series
This is the first in a series of blogs on ‘Spatial Justice in Dublin 8’ (SJD8 #1), as a contribution to Maynooth University Social Justice Week 2022. Human geographers at Maynooth consider ethical research relationships and respect for local knowledges as central to our publicly-engaged teaching and learning. We teach our students about the importance […]
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