Dr Eamonn Slater

Sociology

Associate Professor

TSI Building
2nd Fl
2.21
(01) 708 3796

Biography

Please see my personal website at: https://www.irishmetabolicrifts.com/

‘The concrete is concrete because it is the concentration of many determinations, hence the unity of the diverse’. (Marx – Grundrisse)

This website is concerned with an attempt to reconstitute the conceptual work of Marx and Engels on Ireland and specifically their endeavors to understand the complex relationships that existed between society and nature in this Irish social formation.To do this, I want to focus on the presence of the concept of the metabolic rift, which John Bellamy Foster has recently attributed to Marx, within their Irish writings. I believe it is a critical theoretical microscope that allows us to examine the complex fluid interconnections that exists between nature and society. The forensic ability of the metabolic rift is achieved by its double form (Marx), in which the organic forms of nature metabolize with the social form that is especially prevalent in the social process of cultivation. However, I also have applied the concept of the metabolic rift to help explore the essential structure of the contemporary suburban front garden in three articles. In this section, I hope to display the versality of the concept beyond agricultural cultivation.Finally, I want to demonstrate that the metabolic rift within the writings of Marx and Engels is not exclusively confined to the Irish soil structure but also manifests itself in the individual metabolisms of the peasantry and the Irish population as a whole (work in progress).

Book

Year Publication
2000 (2000) Memories of the Present. Ireland 1997-98. : Institute of Public Administration.
1998 (1998) Encounters with Modern Ireland. A Sociological Chronicle 1995-96. : Institute of Public Administration.

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2009 Dr Eamonn Slater (2009) 'The hidden landscape aesthetic of the Quiet Man' In: The Quiet Man ...and Beyond. Dublin : Liffey Press.
2006 Slater, E. (2006) 'The ‘Lugly’ M50' In: M.P. Corcoran and M. Peillon(Eds.). Uncertain Ireland A sociological chronicle 2003-2004. Dublin : Institute of Public Administration.
2005 Slater, E. (2005) 'Colonialism, Feudalism and the Mode of Production in Nineteenth Century Ireland' In: Terrence McDonough(Eds.). Was Ireland A Colony? The Persistence of the Colonial Condition in the Irish Nineteenth Century. Dublin : Irish Academic Press.
2005 Slater, E., McDonough, T. and Boylan, T. (2005) 'Political Economy before and after the Famine' In: Terrence McDonough(Eds.). Was Ireland A Colony? The Persistence of the Colonial Condition in the Irish Nineteenth Century. Dublin : Irish Academic Press.
2003 Slater, E. (2003) 'Constructing an Exotic ‘Stroll’ through Irish Heritage: The Aran Island Heritage Centre' In: Barbara O’Connor and Michael Cronin(Eds.). Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity. : Channel View Publications.
2003 Slater, E. (2003) 'The Tyranny of the Picturesque “Falls on the Living and the Dead”: The Politics of Reading Irish Landscape' In: Wilson McLeod and Maire Ni Annrachain(Eds.). Language, Landscape and the Imagination in Irish and Scottish Gaelic. : Coisceim.
2002 Slater, E. and McDonough, T. (2002) 'The Western Periphery: Irish Agriculture and the Irish Economy in the Nineteenth Century’, with Terrence McDonough' In: Michalis Psalidopoulos and Maria Eugenia Mata(Eds.). Economic Thought and Policy in Less Developed Europe: The Nineteenth Century. : Routledge.
2000 Slater, E. (2000) 'The Archaeology of Irish Golfscapes' In: E. Slater and M. Peillon(Eds.). Memories of the Present, A Sociological Chronicle, 1997-1998. Dublin : Institute of Public Administration.
2000 Slater, E. (2000) 'When the Local goes Global' In: E. Slater and M. Peillon(Eds.). Memories of the Present, A Sociological Chronicle, 1997-1998. Dublin : Institute of Public Administration.
1998 Slater, E. (1998) 'Introduction: Becoming an Irish Flaneur' In: M. Peillon and E. Slater(Eds.). Encounters with Modern Ireland, A Sociological Chronicle, 1995-1996. Dublin : Institute of Public Administration.
1998 Slater, E. (1998) 'Dependent Rugby' In: M. Peillon and E. Slater(Eds.). Encounters with Modern Ireland, A Sociological Chronicle, 1995-1996. Dublin : Institute of Public Administration.
1998 Slater, E. (1998) 'The Lure of Colour: Villagescapes of the West of Ireland' In: M. Peillon and E. Slater(Eds.). Encounters with Modern Ireland, A Sociological Chronicle, 1995-1996. Dublin : Institute of Public Administration.

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2013 Dr Eamonn Slater (2013) 'The Sprawling Global Lawns of the Emerald Isle: A Dialectical Unfolding'. To be added, 5 :1-21. [Full-Text]
2008 Dr Eamonn Slater Prof. Terrence McDonough (2008) 'Marx on nineteenth-century colonial Ireland: analysing colonialism as a dynamic process'. Irish Historical Studies, xxxvi :153-172. [Full-Text]
2007 Slater, E. (2007) 'Reconstructing ‘Nature’ as a Picturesque Theme Park: The colonial case of Ireland'. 5 :231-245. [Full-Text]
1994 Slater, E. (1994) 'Bulwark of Landlordism and Capitalism: The Dynamics of Feudalism in Nineteenth Century Ireland'. Research in Political Economy, 14 :63-119. [Full-Text]
1993 Slater, E. (1993) 'Contested Terrain: Differing Interpretations of Co.Wicklow’s Landscape'. Irish Journal of Sociology, 3 :23-55.

Conference Contribution

Year Publication
2001 (2001) Interpretive Political Social Analysis Workshop Allihies, Co. Cork, 06/01/2001-06/01/2001.
2001 (2001) Anthropological Association of Ireland Conference N.U.I., Maynooth, Co. Kildare, 12/01/2001-12/01/2001.
2001 (2001) Culture and Photography Lecture Series Allihies, Co. Cork, 02/01/2001-02/01/2001.

Working Paper

Year Publication
2009 Slater, E. (2009) The postcolonial landscape aesthetic of the Quiet Man. WP [Full-Text]
2009 Slater, E. and Flaherty, E. (2009) The Ecological Dynamics of the Rundale Agrarian Commune. WP [Full-Text]
2008 Slater, E. and McDonough, T. (2008) Marx on 19 th Century Colonial Ireland: Analyzing Colonialism beyond Dependency Theory. WP [Full-Text]
2007 Slater, E. (2007) Reconstructing ‘nature’ as a picturesque theme park: the colonial case of Ireland. WP [Full-Text]
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