Joseph Murphy
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  • Topics
    • Learning lessons from natural resource conflicts
    • Improving dialogue between science and society
    • Using policy to shape social and technical innovation
    • Governing when power and authority are dispersed
    • Changing consumption patterns in affluent societies
    • Research methodologies and political action
    • Towards a theory of environment and sustainability
  • Books
    • Regulatory Realities: The Implementation and Impact of Industrial Environmental Regulation
    • Ecological Modernisation, a special issue of Geoforum
    • Exploring Sustainable Consumption: Environmental Policy and the Social Sciences
    • Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural Biotechnology
    • Governing Technology for Sustainability
    • At The Edge: Walking the Atlantic Coast of Ireland and Scotland
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​Research methodologies and political action

As a social scientist, I am interested in research methods and the relationship between research and activism. I tend to use powerful qualitative methods, including interviews, focus groups, questionnaires and ethnography, and usually distinguish (perhaps falsely) between doing analysis and doing politics. However, at times I take a more creative approach. This is most obvious with the work I did through walking where research and activism were combined to produce public scholarship. I am currently working on a collaborative autoethnography focused on gender and sustainability in the household.

Murphy, J. (2011) Walking a public geography through Ireland and Scotland, The Geographical Journal, Vol. 177, No. 4, pp. 367-379.
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Murphy, J. (2011) Walking paths through postcolonial political geographies, Political Geography, Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 239-240.

Murphy, J. (2009) At The Edge: Walking the Atlantic Coast of Ireland and Scotland, Sandstone Press, Highlands.
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  • Home
  • CV
  • Projects
  • Topics
    • Learning lessons from natural resource conflicts
    • Improving dialogue between science and society
    • Using policy to shape social and technical innovation
    • Governing when power and authority are dispersed
    • Changing consumption patterns in affluent societies
    • Research methodologies and political action
    • Towards a theory of environment and sustainability
  • Books
    • Regulatory Realities: The Implementation and Impact of Industrial Environmental Regulation
    • Ecological Modernisation, a special issue of Geoforum
    • Exploring Sustainable Consumption: Environmental Policy and the Social Sciences
    • Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural Biotechnology
    • Governing Technology for Sustainability
    • At The Edge: Walking the Atlantic Coast of Ireland and Scotland
  • All Publications
  • Contact Me