Dr. Eamonn Slater

Professional Career to Date

1995 -          Lecturer NUI, Maynooth

1991 - 1994 Lecturer (contract) St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth

1988 - 1991 Director/Lecturer Rollins College Overseas Program, Dublin

1984 - 1988 Lecturer (contract) Dept. of Sociology, Trinity.

1978 - 1984 Tutor in the Dept. Of Sociology, Trinity.

Research Interests

Aestheticization and visualisation of Irish culture.

Marx’s conceptualization of colonial Ireland.

The metabolic relationships between society and nature within the rural and urban contexts.

Dialectical Sociology.

Teaching

SO102 Modern Ireland

SO207 Rural Ireland

SO221 Marx on Ireland

SO318A Tourism

SO325 Nature and Society

SO303 Special topics (car dependency)

SO606 Ireland as a Global Spectacle

SO406 Ireland as a Theme Park

NIR601 Theory of Society and Space (Marx on society and space)

NIR606 Sustaining Communities (ecologically)

Publications

Books: 

Encounters with Modern Ireland, A Sociological Chronicle, 1995-1997, edited with Michel Peillon, Institute of Public Administration, Dublin, 1998. pp183.

Memories of the Present, A Sociological Chronicle, 1997-1998, edited with Michel Peillon, Institute of Public Administration, Dublin, 2000, pp.268.

Sample Articles:

‘Marx on Primitive Communism: The Irish Rundale Agrarian Commune, Its Internal Dynamics and the Metabolic Rift’ with Eoin Flaherty, Irish Journal of Anthropology, Special feature article, vol. 12 (2), pp.5-34, 2009.

‘The Surburban Front Garden: A Socio-Spatial Analysis’, with Prof. Michel Peillon, Nature and Culture, vol.4, no. 1, 2009,pp.78-104

‘Marx on nineteenth-century colonial Ireland: analysing colonialism as dynamic social process’ with Prof Terrence McDonough, Irish Historical Studies, Vol.XXXVI, no.42, 2008, pp.153-172.

‘Reconstructing ‘Nature’ as a Picturesque Theme Park: The colonial case of Ireland’, Early Popular Visual Culture, vol.5, no.3, 2007, pp.231-245.

‘Bulwark of Landlordism and Capitalism: The Dynamics of Feudalism in Nineteenth Century Ireland’, with Prof. Terrence McDonough, Research in Political Economy, vol. 14, 1994, pp.63-119.

‘Contested Terrain: Differing Interpretations of Co.Wicklow’s Landscape’, Irish Journal of Sociology, vol.3, 1993. pp.23-55.