Sustainable Politics and the Crisis of the Peripheries: Ireland and Greece (Advances in Ecopolitics, 8) - Hardcover

Liam Leonard - IT Sligo, Ireland
Iosif Botetzagias - University of the Aegean, Greece

 
Dr. Liam Leonard (BA; M. Phil; PhD) Researcher and International Academic Consultant, based in California, USA. Previously, Liam has been Chair of the Criminology Association of Ireland and former President of the Sociology Association of Ireland. He lectures Sociology, Criminology, Politics, Human Rights, Penology/Prison Studies, Sustainability and Environmental Issues, Social Movements, Social Capital, Professional Development and Equality & Diversity. The author/editor of over ten books and numerous journal articles, he is Senior Editor of the Ecopolitics Books Series, the Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice Book Series (both with Emerald UK) and Founding Editor of the CRIMSOC Journal of Social Criminology.
Dr. Leonard has edited the 2011 Irish issue of the Prison Journal, as well as special issues of Environmental Politics and the Irish Journal of Sociology. Dr. Leonard was awarded the Sage Publishing Research Excellence Award in New York as well as the NAIRTL Research & Teaching Award in 2012, and has over twelve years experience as an academic and lecturer in the National University of Ireland and the Irish Institute of Technology sectors.
He has given papers at the European Sociology Association, European Criminology Association, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the European Group for Crime & Deviance and the Irish Sociology and Irish Criminology Conferences. Dr. Leonard sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including the Prison Journal and the Journal of Criminal Psychology. Since June 2013, Dr. Leonard has lived in Orange County, California, where he edits the SOC: Sociology in Orange County resource page.

Six articles are devoted to Ireland, and five to Greece, and contributors are political scientists and sociologists based in the two countries under consideration. Editors Leonard (Institute of Technology, Ireland) and Botetzagias (U. of the Aegean, Greece) provide introductory and concluding essays. A sampling of topics: the political economy of Irish development since the 1990s; Irish political, economic, and social policy since 1900; the un-sustainability of the social model of neo-liberal globalization; the Green Party and sustainable politics in Ireland; Euro's crisis; Greece and the EU; green politics in Greece at the time of fiscal crisis; and social capital and environmental policies in Greece. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Book News Inc. Portland, OR