Jim MacLaughlin is an Irish political geographer and social scientist. His PhD was earned at Syracuse University, New York. His research interests have been broadly concerned with social groups that have frequently been marginalised or totally excluded from national and global societies. He has taught a wide range of university courses in the social sciences and geography, principally at NUI Cork, Ireland, where he lectured for 25+ years. He was also awarded a Fellowship for three consecutive years at Syracuse University, earlier in his academic career. Brought up in Moville, Inishowen peninsula, County Donegal, he is married to sociologist Ethel Crowley. They travel regularly and widely together throughout Latin America, India, North Africa and Europe. They both have a special passion for all things Latino and Spanish. Disillusioned with the financialization and commercialisation of academia and the devaluation of the university in recent years, Jim left university life in 2009 in order to devote more time to writing, research, travelling and living. A confirmed northerner, he has an abiding and strong attachment to the Inishowen peninsula. He loves Ethel, coastal scenery, the backstreets of world cities, pints of Beamish, a full moon over still waters, good music, birds of prey, swallows, real pubs, nice people, good writing and their dog Bonnie. A lifelong 'leftie' and natural-born anarchist, he hates hierarchies, bureaucracies and all types of snobbery.
For my full list of publications, click on this file: publications_list.doc
Jim MacLaughlin is an Irish political geographer and social scientist. His PhD was earned at Syracuse University, New York. His research interests have been broadly concerned with social groups that have frequently been marginalised or totally excluded from national and global societies. He has taught a wide range of university courses in the social sciences and geography, principally at NUI Cork, Ireland, where he lectured for 25+ years. He was also awarded a Fellowship for three consecutive years at Syracuse University, earlier in his academic career. Brought up in Moville, Inishowen peninsula, County Donegal, he is married to sociologist Ethel Crowley. They travel regularly and widely together throughout Latin America, India, North Africa and Europe. They both have a special passion for all things Latino and Spanish. Disillusioned with the financialization and commercialisation of academia and the devaluation of the university in recent years, Jim left university life in 2009 in order to devote more time to writing, research, travelling and living. A confirmed northerner, he has an abiding and strong attachment to the Inishowen peninsula. He loves Ethel, coastal scenery, the backstreets of world cities, pints of Beamish, a full moon over still waters, good music, birds of prey, swallows, real pubs, nice people, good writing and their dog Bonnie. A lifelong 'leftie' and natural-born anarchist, he hates hierarchies, bureaucracies and all types of snobbery.
For my full list of publications, click on this file: publications_list.doc