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Dr. Andrew Finlay

Dr. Andrew Finlay

Assistant Professor, Sociology

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Biography

Andrew Finlay is an anthropologist with an interest in developing a critical understanding of power, the state, racism and conflict. Topics of PhD dissertations completed by research students include: the Polish community in Dublin; body marking; cultural identity and Irish advertising; NGOs in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Depoliticisation and the Post-Conflict State in Northern Ireland; 'Narratives of Change: Military Wives in the Curragh Camp'; 'Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: from co-ethnics to a racialized minority'; 'Identity categorisation, citizenship and the "Peace Process" in Cote d'Ivoire'. Among his publications are two books: Nationalism and Multiculturalism (LIT Verlag, 2004) and Governing Ethnic Conflict (Routledge, 2010). http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415498036/

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Andrew Finlay, Liberal intervention, anthropology and the ethnicity machine, Peacebuilding , 3, (3), 2015Journal Article, 2015, URL
  • Andrew Finlay, The Flight From Dunkirk, The London Review of Books, 39,21 (2 November 2017), 2017, -Miscellaneous, 2017
  • Introduction to Nationalism and multiculturalism: Irish identity, citizenship and the peace process in, editor(s)Finlay, Andrew R. , Nationalism and multiculturalism: Irish identity, citizenship and the peace process, Münster, LIT Verlag, 2004, [Finlay A.]Book Chapter, 2004, TARA - Full Text
  • Me too: victimhood and the proliferation of cultural claims in Ireland in, editor(s)Finlay Andrew R , Nationalism and multiculturalism: Irish identity, citizenship and the peace process, Münster, LIT Verlag, 2004, [Finlay A.]Book Chapter, 2004, TARA - Full Text
  • Conclusion to Nationalism and multiculturalism: Irish identity, citizenship and the peace process in, editor(s)Finlay, Andrew R. , Nationalism and multiculturalism: Irish identity, citizenship and the peace process, Münster, LIT Verlag, 2004, [Finlay A.]Book Chapter, 2004, TARA - Full Text
  • Reflexivity, the Dilemmas of Identification and an Ethnographic Encounter in Northern Ireland in, editor(s)Smyth, M. and Robinson G. , Researching Violent Societies: Ethical and Methodological Issues, Tokyo, United Nations University Press, 2001, pp55 - 76, [Finlay Andrew R.]Book Chapter, 2001
  • Beyond the Moral Panic - Results From a Recent Study of Teenage Pregnancy in, editor(s)Cleary A and Treacy, P. , The Sociology of Health and Illness in Ireland, Dublin, UCD Press, 1997, pp127 - 137, [Finlay, A., Whittington, D., Shaw, N., McWilliams, N.]Book Chapter, 1997
  • Teenage Pregnancy, Romantic Love and Social Science - an Uneasy Relationship in, editor(s)James. V. and Gabe, J. , Health and the Sociology of Emotion, Sociology of Health and Illness Monograph, Blackwell, 1996, pp79 - 96, [Finlay A.]Book Chapter, 1996
  • The Cutting Edge: Derry Shirtmakers in, editor(s)Curtin, C. et al , Gender in Irish Society, Galway University Press, 1987, pp87 - 107, [Finlay A.]Book Chapter, 1987
  • Finlay A., Partition, Pluralism and the Response to a Proposed Orange Parade in Dublin, Irish Studies Review, 11, (1), 2003, p17 - 32Journal Article, 2003
  • Finlay A., Defeatism and Northern Protestant "Identity", The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, 1, (2), 2001, p3 - 20Journal Article, 2001, URL
  • Finlay A., 'Whatever You Say Say Nothing' - An Ethnographic Encounter in Northern Ireland and its Sequel, Sociological Research Online, 4, (3), 1999Journal Article, 1999, URL
  • Finlay A., Sectarianism in the Workplace: the Case of the Derry Shirt Industry 1868 - 1968, Irish Journal of Sociology, 3, 1993, p79 - 93Journal Article, 1993
  • Finlay, A., and Shaw, N., Brook in Belfast and the 'Problem' of Teenage Pregnancy, Critical Public Health, 4, (2), 1993, p24 - 30Journal Article, 1993
  • Finlay, A., Swallow, M. and McCree, C., The Royal Group of Hospitals Arts and Environment Project, Ulster Medical Journal, 63, (2), 1993, p153 - 161Journal Article, 1993
  • Bloor, M. J., Barnard, M. A., Finlay, A. and McKeganey N. P., HIV-Related Risk Practices Among Glasgow Male Prostitutes, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 7, (2), 1993, p152 - 169Journal Article, 1993
  • Rhodes, T.J., Bloor, M. J., Donoghoe, M. C., Haw, S., Etorre, B., Platt, S. Frischer, M., Hunter, G. M., Taylor, A., Finlay, A., Crosier, A., Stephens, S., Covell, R., Stimson, G., Goldberg, D. J., Green, S.T., McKeganey, N. P., HIV Prevalence and HIV Risk Behaviour Among Injecting Drug Users in London and Glasgow, AIDS Care, 5, 1993, p413 - 425Journal Article, 1993
  • Covell R, Follett E, Coote I, Bloor M, Finlay A, Frischer M, GoldberG D, Green S, Haw S, McKeganey N, HIV Testing Among Injecting Drug-Users in Glasgow, Journal of Infection, 26, (1), 1993, p27 - 33Journal Article, 1993
  • Finlay A., Sectarianism and the 'Failure' of Trade Unionism in Northern Ireland, Saothar Jnl of the ILHS, 17, 1992, p78 - 86Journal Article, 1992
  • Bloor M. J., McKeganey, N., Finlay A. Barnard, M., The Inappropriateness of Psycho-Social Models of Risk Behaviour for Understanding HIV-Related Risk Behaviour Among Glasgow Male Prostitutes, AIDS Care, 4, (2), 1992, p131 - 137Journal Article, 1992
  • Haw, S., Frischer, M., Green, S., Crosier, A., Hunter, G., Finlay, A., Covell, R., Etorre, B., Bloor, M., Stephens, S., Goldberg, G., Stimpson, G., McKeganey, N., Platt, S., Taylor, A., Follet, E., and Perry, J., The Importance of Multi-Site Sampling in Determining the Prevalence of HIV Among Drug Injectors in Glasgow and London, AIDS, 6, (5), 1992, p517 - 518Journal Article, 1992
  • Frischer, M., Bloor, M., Finlay, A., Goldberg, D., Green, S., Haw, S., McKeganey, N. and Platt, S., A New Method of Estimating the Prevalence of Injecting Drug Use in an Urban Population, International Journal of Epidemiology, 20, (4), 1991, p997 - 1000Journal Article, 1991
  • Michael Gilsenan, V. Amit, Biographical Dictionary of Anthropology, Lonodn, Routledge, 2004, pp194 - 195, [A. Finlay]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2004
  • A. Finlay, Unity, Times Literary Supplement, 4970, 15, 1998, - p15Miscellaneous, 1998
  • Finlay A, Anthropology Misapplied? The Culture Concept and the Peace Process in Ireland , Anthropology in Action, 13, (1-2), 2006, p1 - 10Journal Article, 2006
  • Andrew Finlay, Multiculturalism after the Good Friday Agreement, Irish Journal of Anthropology, 19, (3), 2006, p8 - 17Journal Article, 2006, TARA - Full Text
  • Locating the peace process in Ireland in an international context in, editor(s)K. Fricker and R. Lentin , Performing Global Networks, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007, [Andrew Finlay]Book Chapter, 2007
  • Finlay, Andrew R., The Persistence of the Old Idea of Culture, the Peace Process in Ireland and Anthropology, Critique of Anthropology, 28, (3), 2008, p279 - 296Journal Article, 2008
  • Finlay A, Cultural Essentialism, Governmentality and the Liberal Consensus on Conflict Resolution , Understanding Conflicts-Cross-Cultural Perspectives , University of Aarhus , August 19 - 22, 2008, 2008Conference Paper, 2008
  • Finlay A, Anthropology, Governmentality and the Peace Process in Ireland, Experiencing Diversity and Mutuality, 10th Biennial Conference, European Association of Social Anthropologists, Ljubljana, 26 to 30 August, 2008Conference Paper, 2008
  • Finlay, Andrew R., Irish studies, cultural pluralism and the peace process, Irish Studies Review, 15, (3), 2007, p333 - 345Journal Article, 2007, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Finlay A , Governing Ethnic Conflict: Consociation, Identity and the Price of Peace, hardback, London and New York, Routledge, 2010, 152ppBook, 2010
  • Finlay A, Communal Categories, Normative Ethnicity and the Peace Process in Ireland , biennale of the European Association of Social Anthropologists: Crisis and the Imagination, Maynooth, , 24-27 August 2010, 2010Conference Paper, 2010
  • Finlay, A, Consociational Peace Agreements: lesson-sharing or winning the argument?" , 'Conflicts on the Move', the Annual Conference of American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, 16-20 November 2010, 2010Conference Paper, 2010
  • Finlay A ,, Governing Ethnic Conflict: Consociation, Identity and the Price of Peace, , , , Paperback, London and New York, Routledge, 2011, 152ppBook, 2011, URL
  • Andrew Finlay , Ethnic statistics: Ringelheim, reification and the, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37, (4), 2014, p753 - 756Journal Article, 2014, URL
  • Andrew Finlay, Recalling a violent episode from a place of safety, Sociology Department Seminar, Trinity College Dublin, 4 March 2019., 2019, -Miscellaneous
  • Andrew Finlay, Consociation, Binarism and Preparations for a Referendum on Irish Unity,, Consociational Powersharing in Northern Ireland: Facing the Future", The School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen"s University Belfast, 14-15 December 2023, 2023Invited Talk
  • Finlay A., Pluralism Old and New: The Challenges For TCD, Proceedings of a Workshop on Working and Teaching in a Multicultural University, MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies Dept of Sociology, Trinity College, HEA Equality Unit, Dublin, 16 November 2002, edited by Lenitn R. , 2003Conference Paper, URL
  • Finlay A., Identity, Criticism and Decadent Strata, Proceedings of a Seminar on Emerging Irish Identities, MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies Dept of Sociology and NFCAR Seminar, Trinity College, Dublin, 27 November 1999, edited by Lentin R. , 2000Conference Paper
  • Finlay A., Beware of Communal Rights, Fortnight, 419, (9), 2003Journal Article
  • Finlay A., Stephen McGonagle , Journal of the Irish Labour History Society, 27, 2002, p7 - 8Journal Article
  • Haw, S., Finlay A., Frischer, M., Covell, R., Bloor, M., Follet, E., Goldberg, D., Green, S., and McKeganey, N. P., HIV Infection and Risk Behaviour Among Injecting Drug Users in Glasgow, ANSWER, Communicable Diseases (Scotland) Unit, Glasgow 91/31, 1991, p1 - 4Journal Article
  • Bloor, M. J., Finlay, A., Barnard, M. A. and McKeganey, N. P., Male Prostitution and Risks of HIV Infection in Glasgow: Final Report, ANSWER, Communicable Diseases (Scotland) Unit, Glasgow 91/33, 1991, p1 - 3Journal Article
  • Finlay A., Diversity in the New Ireland- Understanding the Census 2002, Consultation on Diversity and Religion in Public Service Broadcasting, Church of Ireland Broadcasting Committee, Dublin, 14 October 2004, 2004Conference Paper, URL
  • Finlay A., Cultural Identity and Political Transformation, A summary of the Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Irish Association, Dun Laoghaire, 11-12 October, 2002Conference Paper
  • Finlay A., Colonialism, Postcolonial Theory and the Northern Protestant 'Condition', Defining ColoniesThird Galway Conference on Colonialism, Galway, 1999Conference Paper
  • Whittington, D., and Finlay, A., A Qualitative Study of Adolescent Reproductive Behaviour in the West of NI,, Proceedings of the Fourth Qualitative Health Research Conference, Vancouver, 1998, pp64Conference Paper
  • Finlay A., Adolescent sexuality, teenage pregnancy and the notion of an underclass: reflections from Northern Ireland, Sexualities in Social Context, British Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 1994, pp20Conference Paper
  • Finlay A., ATGWU Action Programme - Working for Equality Final Report, Unpublished Evaluation Report, Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union and the Central Community Relations Unit, 1998Report
  • Finlay, A., Shaw, N., Whittington, D. and McWilliams, M., Adolescent Reproductive Behaviour In the Western Health & Social Services Board Area - Executive Summary, University of Ulster/Western Health and Social Services Board, Coleraine, 1995Report
  • Finlay, A., Shaw, N., Whittington, D. and McWilliams, M., Teenage Pregnancy and Adolescent Reproductive Behaviour in the Western Board Area - Final Report, University of Ulster/Western Health and Social Services Board, Coleraine, 1994Report
  • Finlay, A., McCree, C., Whittington, D. and Thompson, K., Royal Group of Hospitals Arts and Environment Project - Report of an Evaluation carried out between April and November 1991, University of Ulster, 1992Report
  • Normand, C., Ditch, J., Dockrell, J., Finlay, A., Gaskell, G., Henderson, G., and Whittington, D., Clinical Audit in Professions Allied to Medicine and Related Therapy Professions, Vol 3, Dept. of Health (GB), May, 1991Report
  • Finlay A., Saothar, Journal of the Irish Labour History Society, 20, 1995, p84Review
  • Finlay A., Rethinking Northern Ireland, Economic and Social Review, 30, (1), 1999Review
  • Finlay A., Cultural Identity and Political Transformation, A summary of the Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Irish Association, Dun Laoghaire, 11-12 October, 2002Conference Paper
  • Finlay A., Adolescent sexuality, teenage pregnancy and the notion of an underclass: reflections from Northern Ireland', Sexualities in Social Context, British Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, March, 1994, pp20 - 20Conference Paper
  • Finlay, A. and Shaw, N., Brook in Belfast and the 'problem' of teenage pregnancy, Termonfechin, Bulletin of the Sociological Association of Ireland, Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference: Sociology - Themes and Tensions, May, 70, (4), 1993Conference Paper
  • Bloor, M., Frischer, M., Taylor, A., Haw, S., Finlay, A., Covell, R., Possible reasons for the continuing low HIV prevalence among Glasgow's injecting drug users. PoC 4109, VIII International Conference on AIDS, Amsterdam, July, 1992Conference Paper
  • Haw, S., Covell, R., Finlay, A., Frischer, M., Bloor, M., Follet, E., Goldberg, D., Green, S., McKeganey, N., Platt, S., A serial period prevalence study of HIV infection and HIV risk behaviours among injecting drug users recruited in Glasgow, Abstract 18, MRC AIDS Epidemiology Workshop, Warwick, September, 1991Meeting Abstract
  • Frischer, M., Bloor, M., Covell, R., Goldberg, D., Green, S., Finlay. A., Haw, S., McKeganey, N., Platt, S., An ecological approach to estimating the prevalence of injecting drug use in urban populations: results from a Scottish city, Society for Social Medicine, 35th Annual Scientific Meeting, Southampton, September, 1991Conference Paper
  • Frischer, M., Bloor, M., Covell, R., Goldberg, D., Green, S., Finlay. A., Haw, S., McKeganey, N., Platt, S., A new method of estimating the prevalence of HIV infection among injecting drug users in an urban population. Abstract W.C. 3049, VII International Conference on AIDS, Florence, June, 1991Meeting Abstract
  • Haw, S., Covell, R., Finlay, A., Frischer, M., Bloor, M., Follet, E., Goldberg, D., Green, S., McKeganey, N., Platt, S., A serial period prevalence study of HIV infection and HIV risk behaviours in a Scottish city, Abstract M.D. 4070, VII International Conference on AIDS, Florence, June, 1991Meeting Abstract
  • A Finlay, Cultural Identity and The Politics of Esteem, The British Association Festival of Science, Trinity College Dublin , 6 September 2005, 2005Conference Paper
  • A Finlay , Locating the Peace Process in Ireland in an International Context, Global Networks Conference, Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin , 23-24 September 2005, 2005Conference Paper
  • A Finlay, Ireland in 2020: Bi-cultural or Multi-cultural , Annual Conference of the Irish Association Imagining Ireland in 2020, Belfast, 14-15 October 2005, 2005Invited Talk
  • Finlay, A., Nationalism and Multiculturalism, Variations on an Irish Theme: Reflections, Reactions and Realities, The Queen's University of Belfast, 4-5 August 2004, 2004Conference Paper
  • Andrew Finlay, Dublin Riots - What Lies Beneath Sunday Business Post 5/3/2006 , 2006, -Miscellaneous, URL
  • Andrew Finlay, 'Telling', Re-Telling and Normative Essentialism - Further Reflections on an Ethnographic Encounter, Evidence in Conflict Workshop on Problems Researching Divided Societies And Cities , Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, 29-31 March, 2007, 2007Conference Paper
  • Finlay, A, Review of Devolution and Identity , by John Wilson and Karyn Stapleton (eds) , Translocations The Irish Migration, Race and Social Transformation Review , 2, (1), 2007, p211-212Review
  • Andrew Finlay, 'The Political Economy of Ethnicity', , Ethnicity and Travellers: an exploration, Dublin Castle, 27 September , 2012, National Traveller Monitoring and Advisory Committee, Department of Justice, 1 - 15ppInvited Talk, URL , TARA - Full Text