Resumen CV

Tom Boland is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Criminology, UCC. His main research interests are in critique, culture unemployment and welfare. His work draws on multiple disciplines, from anthropology through to philosophy, and in particular, historical genealogies of the present - particularly the governmentality of welfare and the discourse of critique. Also, he is a cultural sociologist, with interests in literary theory and cultural studies.

He is the co-director of the Economy + Society Summer School with Dr. Ray Griffin (WIT), and similarly the WUERC group.

PUBLICATIONS

Book

(2021) The Reformation of Welfare: The New Faith of the Labour Market.
Boland, T. & Griffin, R. (2021) The Reformation of Welfare: The New Faith of the Labour Market. Bristol: Policy Press.

(2015) The Sociology of Unemployment.
Boland, T & Griffin, R. (2015) The Sociology of Unemployment. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

(2018) The Spectacle of Critique: From Philosophy to Cacophony.
Boland, T (2018) The Spectacle of Critique: From Philosophy to Cacophony. London: Routledge.

(2013) Critique as a modern social phenomenon: The Critical Society.
Boland, T (2013) Critique as a modern social phenomenon: The Critical Society. New York: Edwin Mellen.

Book Chapters

(2021) ‘Parasites of the Social'
Boland, T. (2021) '‘Parasites of the Social' In: Benta, M., O'Connor, P (eds). Technologisations of the Social. London: Routledge.
(2020) 'Purgatory'
Boland, T. & Griffin, R. (2020) 'Purgatory' In: Routledge Handbook of Economic Theology. Ed. Swarzkopf, S. London: Routledge.
(2019) 'Electric dreams of welfare in the 4th industrial revolution: An actor-network investigation and genealogy of an Algorithm'
Griffin, R., Boland, T. Henessey, A. & Tuite, A. (2019) 'Electric dreams of welfare in the 4th industrial revolution: An actor-network investigation and genealogy of an Algorithm' In: Digitisation and Precariatisation. Wiesbaden: Springer.
(2018) 'The Cacophony of Critique: New Model Army’s protest against neo-liberal critique'
Boland, T. (2018) 'The Cacophony of Critique: New Model Army’s protest against neo-liberal critique' In: Songs of Social Protest. Lanham: Rowman & Littleman.
(2018) '‘The Subversion of Subversion: On Critique unto Infinity in the ‘Social’ Media'
Boland, T. (2018) '‘The Subversion of Subversion: On Critique unto Infinity in the ‘Social’ Media' In: Divinisation and Technification: The Political Anthropology of Subversion (eds) Horvath, A., Roman, C., Germain, G. Routledge: London.
(2016) '‘‘Iomar doimhin na saoirse’ agus ‘the abyssal depths’: aisling ghéar Samuel Beckett agus Sheáin Uí Ríordáin ar eispéireas na suibiachta sa Nua-aimsir’ [‘The deep chasm of freedom’ and ‘the abyssal depths’: Samuel Beckett and Seán Ó Ríordáin’s vision of modernity’]'
Ní Shíocháin, T. and Boland, T. (2016) '‘‘Iomar doimhin na saoirse’ agus ‘the abyssal depths’: aisling ghéar Samuel Beckett agus Sheáin Uí Ríordáin ar eispéireas na suibiachta sa Nua-aimsir’ [‘The deep chasm of freedom’ and ‘the abyssal depths’: Samuel Beckett and Seán Ó Ríordáin’s vision of modernity’]' In: Meanamra: An tSíceolaíocht agus an Fhealsúnacht. Dublin: Coiscéim.
(2015) '“Den pragmatiske kritiksociologi” [The Pragmatic Sociology of Critique]'
Boland, T & Petersen, A. (2015) '“Den pragmatiske kritiksociologi” [The Pragmatic Sociology of Critique]' In: Jacobsen, M. and Petersen, A. (Eds.) Kritik Klassiske og Kontemporaere. Copenhagen: Hans Reitzels Forlag.
(2014) '‘A Telling Silence: Beckett, Kafka and the Experience of Being Unemployed'
Boland, T. & Griffin, R. (2014) '‘A Telling Silence: Beckett, Kafka and the Experience of Being Unemployed' In: Izik, M., Hutchin, L. & Anderson, D. (eds.) Untold Stories in Organisations. London: Routledge.
(2013) 'The Anti-Statesmen: The Critical Politics of Ordo-liberalism and Occupy'
Boland, T. (2013) 'The Anti-Statesmen: The Critical Politics of Ordo-liberalism and Occupy' In: Horvath, A. and O’Brien, J. (Eds) The Statesman and the Politics of Limits. Florence: Ficino Press.