Uncover their insights into the intricate interplay between society and nature within Irish historical contexts.
Rundale Agrarian Commune: Marx and Engels on primitive communism in Ireland and its internal dynamics
Dr. Eamonn Slater, Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, County Kildare, Ireland. Funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Word count ABSTRACT: In the following account we apply a Marxist…
The ‘Collops’of the Rundale: their evolving ecological and communal forms.
Dr. Eamonn Slater, Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, County Kildare, Ireland. Number of Words: 1650Estimated Reading Time: ~8-10 minutes Introduction In this article, I want to outline the crucial role that the administrative device of…
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The Sprawling Global Lawns of the Emerald Isle: A Dialectical Unfolding.
Dr. Eamonn Slater. Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, County Kildare, Ireland. Key words: Marx, labour process, metabolic rift, Benjamin, aesthetic veneer, externalisation. Number of Words:Estimated Reading Time: ~ 0 – 0 minutes Abstract: This article explores…
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The Suburban front Garden – a spatial entity determined by social and natural processes.
Eamonn Slater and Michel Peillon. Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, County Kildare, Ireland. KEY WORDS: society-nature relationships, space, visuality, gardening, labour processes. Number of Words:Estimated Reading Time: ~ 0 – 0 minutes ABSTRACT…
Reconstructing ‘Nature’ as a Picturesque theme park: The colonial case of Ireland.
Dr. Eamonn Slater, Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, County Kildare, Ireland. Number of Words: 7065Estimated Reading Time: ~28-35 minutes This article explores how a form of visuality—the picturesque—became the essential framework for the…
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Marx on colonial Ireland: the dialectics of colonialism
Dr. Eamonn Slater (Department of Sociology, Maynooth University) Abstract: This article provides a new insight into Marx’s’ understanding of colonialism. In highlighting the method of dialectical inquiry used by Marx in an undelivered speech document…
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Marx on Nineteenth Century Colonial Ireland: Analyzing Colonialism as a Social Process.
Eamonn Slater (Department of Sociology, Maynooth University) and Terrence McDonough (Department of Economics, NUIGalway). Abstract In this article, we explore the possibility that Marx had a far more complex understanding of the colonialization…
How Engels and Marx analysed climate and climate change dialectically.
Dr. Eamonn Slater, Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, County Kildare, Ireland. KEYWORDS: climate system, dialectical nature, interconnecting processes, deforestation, desertification, immediate and remote consequences, Ireland.. Word count 7,850. As ‘Nature works dialectically’, Engels and…
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Marx on the colonization of Irish soil.
Marx on the colonization of Irish soil Eamonn Slater Department of Sociology, Maynooth University Estimated reading time: 60 minutes. Contains 21150 words. Abstract This paper explores how Marx conceptualised the presence of soil exhaustion…
Report of a speech by Karl Marx
International Workingmen’s Association 1867 Record of Speech by Karl Marx On the Irish Question Source: MECW Volume 21, p. 317;First published: in Marx and Engels, Collected Works, 2nd Russian Edition, 1960. This record…
Record of speech by Karl Marx
International Workingmen’s Association 1867 Record of Speech by Karl Marx On the Irish Question Source: MECW Volume 21, p. 317;First published: in Marx and Engels, Collected Works, 2nd Russian Edition, 1960. This record of Marx’s speech on the…
Outline of a Report on the Irish Question to the CEA of German Workers in London
Karl Marx the Outline of SpeechDecember 1867 Number of Words: 1,950Estimated Reading Time: ~8-10 minutes On the Irish Question: A Report by Karl Marx (1867) Editor’s Note: In December 1867, Karl Marx delivered a detailed…
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Engels on Ireland’s Dialectics of Nature
Dr. Eamonn Slater, Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, County Kildare, Ireland. Key words: dialectics, metabolizing organic processes, natural conditions, Ireland. Word count Abstract: This article surveys an unpublished piece in which Engels examined the…
Engels and Marx on dialectically determined reality and the dire consequences for Nature of our failure to recognize it.
Eamonn Slater and Eoin Flaherty Department of Sociology, Maynooth University. Number of Words: 20021Estimated Reading Time: ~80 minutes 3.5.2024. (Working version, being edited) Engels and Marx on dialectically determined realityDownload The ‘bewitched’ world of…