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The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN)

Dr Kevin Ryan

School of Political Science & Sociology, University of Galway, Ireland

Email: Kevin.Ryan@universityofgalway.ie

Profile

Kevin Ryan is lecturer at the School of Political Science & Sociology, University of Galway, and a graduate of Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork. In his research, he explores freedom as a practice which is socially and historically conditioned by power relations, with a particular focus on childhood as the locus of biosocial power. Kevin also publishes occasionally under the joint name of Two Fuse, which is a collaboration with Dublin-based artist Fiona Whelan (https://www.fionawhelan.com/). 

Research

Publications

Ryan, K. (2020) Refiguring Childhood: Encounters with Biosocial Power. Manchester University Press. Two Fuse (2018) Freedom? Sireacht series. Cork: Cork University Press.

M. Haugaard and K. Ryan (Eds) (2012) Political Power: Development of the Field. IPSA and Barbara Budrich.

Ryan, K. (2007) Social Exclusion and the Politics of Order, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press.

Expertise

Childhood and biosocial power, governmentality theory, social and political power
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