Padraig R. Carmody (St. Patrick's College, Dublin, Ireland)

Submitted:  Fri, 15 July 2005


Padraig R. Carmody
Lecturer in Geography
St. Patrick's College
Drumcondra
Dublin 9
Ireland

phone:   353-1-8842159
e-mail:  padraig.carmody@spd.dcu.ie


Also: Research Associate, Centre for International Studies, Dublin City University.

Research interests: Globalisation and Corporate Restructuring in South Africa ; the 
Impacts of Economic Liberalization on the Development of Manufacturing in Africa 
and other Developing Areas ; Civil Society, Poverty Alleviation and Development 
Strategies.

Publications:

Books:  

Tearing the Social Fabric: Neoliberalism, Deindustrialization, and the Crisis of 
Governance in Zimbabwe.  Heinemann Press, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 2001.

Articles:

"Transforming Globalisation and Security: Africa and America Post-9/11"  
forthcoming, Africa Today, Fall 2005.

"The Spatial Paradox of Globalisation", Geographical Viewpoint, Volume 31, pp. 
7-17, 2003.

With Scott Taylor, "Industry and the Urban Sector in Zimbabwe's Political Economy", 
African Studies Quarterly, 2003, Vol. 7, Issue 2 and 3, Fall 2003.

"Between Globalisation and (Post)Apartheid: The Political Economy of Restructuring 
in South Africa", Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 255-275, 
2002.

With Jim Glassman: "Structural Adjustment in East and South-East Asia: Lessons from 
Latin America", Geoforum, 32, pp. 79-90, 2001.

"Constructing Alternatives to Structural Adjustment in Africa", Review of African 
Political Economy, No. 75, pp. 25-46, 1998.

"Neoclassical Practice and the Collapse of Industry in Zimbabwe: the Cases of 
Textiles, Clothing, and Footwear", Economic Geography, Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 319-343, 
1998.


Book chapters:  

"The Liberalization of Underdevelopment or the Criminalization of the State? 
Contrasting Explanations of Africa's Politico-Economic Crisis under Globalisation", 
in Ikubolojeh Logan (ed.) Globalization, the Third World State and Poverty 
Alleviation in the Twenty-First Century, Ashgate, London, 2002.


Other publications:

Review of Making Sense of Governance: Empirical Evidence from 16 Developing 
Countries by Goran Hyden, Julius Court and Kenneth Mease, Boulder, CO, Lynne 
Rienner, 2004, Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 3, Issue 2, pp. 400-401, 2005.

Review of Alternative Economic Spaces, Andrew Leyshon, Roger Lee and Colin C. 
Williams (eds.), London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, SAGE, 2003, forthcoming Annals 
of the Association of American Geographers.

"Comment on Geography in Transition in Ireland", Irish Geography, Volume 37 (2) 
2004, pp. 137-139.

"Continuites and Contradictions in Zimbabwe's Political Economy". Review of Staffan 
Darnolf and Lissa Laakso (eds.), Twenty Years of Independence in Zimbabwe: From 
Liberation to Authoritarianism, New York, Palgrave MacMillan 2003 for H-SAfrica 
listserv, September 2004.

Foreword to Irish Social Expenditure in Comparative International Context, by Virpi 
Timonen, Institute of Public Administration, Dublin, 2003.

Comment on "The Irish Tax-Benefit System", Journal of the Social and and 
Statistical Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2003.

"Sustaining Progress: A Poverty Assessment" in Action on Poverty Today, Summer 
2003, No. 2.

"Working Towards a Poverty-Free Society", submission to the National Action Plan 
Against Poverty and Social Exclusion, lead author with others, Combat Poverty 
Agency, Dublin, 2003.

"Securing Progress: Delivering Inclusion", submission on the new social partnership 
agreement, Combat Poverty Agency, Dublin, 2002.

"Open Sesame! Liberalization and Zimbabwe's Textile Industry" in Ngqo! An Economic 
Bulletin published by the South African National Institute for Economic Policy, 
Vol. 1, No. 5, October, 1999.