Sunday, October 12, 2008

Greenhouse Press: Peer Reviewed Academic Publishing of Books examining issues in Environmental Sociology, Politics and Geography.Greenhouse Press has published books on Irish environmentalism, including Green Nation and Politics Inflamed by Dr. Liam Leonard of Sligo IT (formerly NUI Galway).Greenhouse Press have also published these titles as E-books through the Ecopolitics Online webpage at http://www.ecopoliticsonline.com/We will continue to publish books examining environmental issues, focusing on the widest understandings of environmental thought, including:
Environmental Sociology
Sustainable Living
Green Philosophy and Politics
Ecological Politics
Spatial Identities
Heritage and Conservation
Social Geography
Environmental Justice
Sustainable Development



Title:
Ecopolitics Online Journal Vol 1. No 2. Autumn/Winter 2008
available from www.ecopoliticsonline.com
Ecopolitics Online Journal Vol 1. No 2. Autumn/Winter 2008 ISSN 2009-0315 Contents:1. Ecofeminism and a politics of performative affinity: direct action, subaltern voices, and thegreen public sphere............................ Chaone Mallory 2-112. Transition Towns: ‘Survival’, ‘Resilience’ and Sustainable Communities: Outline of a Research Agenda .........John Barry and Stephen Quilley 12-313. Environmental Exploitation: An analysis and taxonomy.....................................Gerald Nagtzaam 32 - 424. Return to the Villages........................ Mark Somma 43-595. Green Ireland? Waste in its Social Context................................ G. Honor Fagan and Michael Murray 60-73The Dilemma of Justice: Foreign Oil Multinationals and Human rights violation in the NigerDelta of Nigeria. .............................Victor Ojakorotu 74-966. Commentary: ‘The Irish Green Party and the Referendum for the EU Reform Treaty ofLisbon’ ..............................................Liam Leonard 97- 987. Commentary: ‘A Letter from Bali’ J. Timmons Roberts, with an Introduction on the Bali Conference by Peter Doran....................................................................99-1008. Book Reviews....................................................100-103

Sunday, October 07, 2007

Greenhouse Press: Peer Reviewed Academic Publishing of Books examining issues in Environmental Sociology, Politics and Geography.
Greenhouse Press has published books on Irish environmentalism, including Green Nation and Politics Inflamed by Dr. Liam Leonard of Sligo IT (formerly NUI Galway).
Greenhouse Press have also published these titles as E-books through the Ecopolitics Online webpage at http://www.ecopoliticsonline.com/
We will continue to publish books examining environmental issues, focusing on the widest understandings of environmental thought, including:


  • Environmental Sociology
  • Sustainable Living
  • Green Philosophy
  • Ecological Politics
  • Spatial Identites
  • Heritage and Conservation
  • Social Geography
  • Environmental Justice
  • Sustainable Development

Free E-Book from Irish Greenhouse Press:

Issues in Environmental Research: Politics, Anthropology and Sociology by Liam Leonard and Michael O' Kane.
http://www.ecopoliticsonline.com/index.cfm?action=books
The success of civil society groups and social movements in the Lisbon Treaty referendum has increased our focus on the relationship between activism and power. This, the third book in the Ecopolitics Series, presents a series of studies on activists in Ireland between the 1997 and 2007 general elections.
Here, the relationship between activism and research is explored through a series of case studies, interviews and articles. Activists with the Irish Green Party in working class areas of Dublin provide the focus for Irish-Australian anthropologist Michael O'Kane's in depth study on the 1997 election campaign. This is followed by a series of articles by Irish-American political sociologist Liam Leonard, based on his work as a researcher and journalist in Galway between 1999 and 2008.
Issues in Environmental Research: Politics, Anthropology and Sociology provides an chronological account of political events from an activist's perspective, thereby creating further understandings of the motivations of those in society who are so often on outside of the mainstream, but who have influenced events both nationally and throughout Europe in recent political campaigns. As such, this book offers a significant record of activist's perspectives at a pivotal moment in the relationship between the grassroots and the political elite, both in Ireland and in the wider European Union.
The book is available to you to download for free at www.ecopoliticsonline.com

Issues in Environmental Research:
Politics, Anthropology and Sociology
Ecopolitics Series Vol. 3
Liam Leonard & Michael O'Kane
© Irish Greenhouse Press 2008
ISSN: 2009-0315

About the Authors:
Liam Leonard received his PhD in sociology and political science from the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2004. He is the Founder and Senior Editor of the Ecopolitics Online Journal www.ecopoliticsonline.com and author of three other books on environmental issues; Politics Inflamed (2005), Green Nation (2006) and the Environmental Movement in Ireland (2008). He has worked as a journalist and has been active politically with the Irish Labour and Green parties. Having worked as lecturer in Social Movements and Environmental Politics in NUIG, he now lectures in Criminology and Sociology in the Sligo Institute of Technology, Ireland.

Michael O’Kane received his PhD in anthropology from Monash University , Victoria , Australia in 2004. He then worked with remote area Indigenous communities in Australia ’s Northern Territory from 2004 until 2006 and as a Senior Anthropologist in cultural heritage management in South Australia . From 2007 he has worked with the Innovation and Change Management Group in the Faculty of Land and Food Resources (now the Graduate School of Land and Environment) in the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Greenhouse Press also publish the peer reviewed Crime & Sociology Online Journal at http://crimeandsociologyjournal.blogspot.com/

We will be publishing new editions of the Ecopolitics Series in the coming months. To contact us, email the following:

Dr. Liam Leonard; Editor: Greenhouse Press liam_leonard@yahoo.com

Sligo IT Humanities http://www.itsligo.ie/

Monday, October 30, 2006


Mayor Niall OBrolchain and Liam leonard at the launch of Green Nation, Oct. 2006- NUIG.

Galway's Green Mayor launches the book Green Nation with author Liam leonard at the Environmental Change Institute, NUI Galway, October 2006.

Friday, October 20, 2006


Irish Greenhouse Press is relaunching its webpage today, Friday the 20th October 2006.
Both books in the Ecopolitics Series are available from www.choicepublishing.ie or from www.amazon.co.uk.

The Ecopolitics Series on Irish Greenhouse Press , by Dr. Liam Leonard of NUI Galway are:

  • Green Nation:the Irish Environmental Movement from Carnsore Point to the Rossport 5
  • Politics Inflamed: GSE & the Campaign Against Incineration in Ireland