Biography
Senior lecturer in sociology, Fellow TCD
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Managing rural nature: regulation, translations and governance in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in, editor(s)John McDonagh, Tony Varley, Sally Shortall , A Living Countryside? The Politics of Sustainable Development in Rural Ireland, Farnham, Surrey, Ashgate, 2009, pp107 - 120, [Hilary Tovey]
Conclusion: beyond the policy process - conditions for rural sustainable development in European countries in, editor(s)Karl Bruckmeier, Hilary Tovey , Rural Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Society, Surrey, England, Ashgate, 2009, pp267 - 288, [Karl Bruckmeier, Hilary Tovey]
Theorising "Community" in, editor(s)Catherine Forde, Elizabeth Kiely, Rosie Meade , Youth and Community Work in Ireland - Critical Perspectives, Dublin, Blackhall, 2009, pp81 - 104, [Hilary Tovey]
Hlary Tovey, 'Local food' as a Contested Concept: networks, knowledges and power in food-based strategies for rural development, International Journal of the Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 16, (2), 2009, pc. 20 pages
Hilary Tovey, Commentary: Sustainability - A Platform for Debate, Sustainability, 1, (1), 2009, p14 - 18
Introduction: Natural Resource Management for Rural Sustainable Development in, editor(s)Karl Bruckmeier, Hilary Tovey , Rural Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Society, Surrey, England, Ashgate, 2009, pp1 - 19, [Karl Bruckmeier, Hilary Tovey]
Innovation in rural development and rural sustainable development in, editor(s)Karl Bruckmeier, Hilary Tovey , Rural Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Society, Surrey, England, Ashgate, 2009, pp243 - 266, [Hilary Tovey, Karl Bruckmeier, Robert Mooney]
Ecologizing rural Ireland? Conflicts and contradictions regarding knowledge for sustainable development in, editor(s)Karl Bruckmeier, Hilary Tovey , Rural Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Society, Surrey, England, Ashgate, 2009, pp131 - 150, [Hilary Tovey]
Karl Bruckmeier, Hilary Tovey (eds), Rural Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Society, first, Farnham, Surrey, England, Ashgate, 2009, vii - 294pp
Sociologia Ruralis (Special Issue on Rural Sustainable Development in the Era of Knowledge Society), 48, 3(July), (2008), 185 - 329p, HilaryTovey , [Guest Editor]
Hilary Tovey, Introduction: Rural Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Society Era, Sociologia Ruralis, 48, (3 (July)), 2008, p185 - 199
Karl Bruckmeier, Hilary Tovey, Knowledge in sustainable development:from forms of knowledge to knowledge processes, Sociologia Ruralis, 48, (3 (July)), 2008, p313 - 329
Perry Share, Hilary Tovey, Mary Corcoran, A Sociology of Ireland , Third, Dublin, Gill and Macmillan, 2007, 1 - 615pp
Hilary Tovey, Environmentalism in Ireland: Movement and Activists, First, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2007, 3 - 208pp
Food and rural sustainable development in, editor(s)Sara O'Sullivan , Contemporary Ireland - a Sociological Map, Dublin, UCD Press, 2007, pp283 - 298, [Hilary Tovey]
Karl Bruckmeier, Hilary Tovey, Dinamicas del conocimiento, identidad territorial, y desarrollo rural sustentable en la Union Europea, Revista Opera (Observatorio de Politicas, Ejecucion y Resultados de la Administracion Publica, 7, 2007, p85 - 106
New Movements in Old Places? The alternative food movement in rural Ireland in, editor(s)Linda Connolly, Niamh Hourigan , Social Movements and Ireland, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2006, pp168 - 189, [Hilary Tovey]
Hilary Tovey, Review of Cross-Continental Food Chains, by N. Fold, B. Pritchard (eds) , Journal of Rural Studies, 22, (4 (October)), 2006, p499-500
Hilary Tovey, Review of The Politics of High-Tech Growth - Developmental Network States in the Global Economy, by O Riain, Sean , British Journal of Sociology, 57, , (2 (June)), 2006, p331-2
Rural Europe in flux? Following food and food cultures as a way of understanding the re-shaping of Irish rural identities in, editor(s)Maija Makikalli , Localities in Turrmoil, Turku, Finland, University of Turku, 2005, pp10 - 21, [Hilary Tovey]
Hilary Tovey, Marc Mormont, Karl Bruckmeier, Imre Kovach, The Budapest Declaration on Rural Innovation of the Final Conference of COST Action A12, Brussels, European Commission for COST Social Sciences, 2003
Hilary Tovey, Perry Share, A Sociology of Ireland , second, Dublin, Gill and Macmillan, 2003
Hilary Tovey, 'Theorising nature and society in sociology: the invisibility of animals', Sociologia Ruralis, 43, (4), 2003, p196 - 215
Hilary Tovey, 'Risk, morality and the sociology of animals - reflections on the Foot and Mouth outbreak in Ireland', Irish Journal of Sociology, 11, (1), 2002, p23 - 42
'Socjologia wsi i rolnictwa w Irlandii' (Rural sociology in Ireland) in, editor(s)Wojciech Kniec , Socjologia Wsi w Irlandii, Torun, Poland, Uniwersytet Nikolaja Kopernika, 2002, pp39 - 69, [Hilary Tovey]
'The European countryside in transition' in, editor(s)Kalle Pihlainen, Erik Tirkonnen , The New Countryside and Transformations in Operating Environment, Turku, Finland, University of Turku, 2002, pp23 - 45, [Hilary Tovey]
'Rethinking urbanisation: struggles around rural autonomy and fragmentation' in, editor(s)Mary P. Corcoran, Michel Peillon , Irish Sociological Chronicles vol. III, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2002, pp167 - 185, [Hilary Tovey]
Hilary Tovey, 'Alternative agriculture movements and rural development cosmologies', International Journal of the Sociology of Food and Agriculture, 10, (1), 2002, p25
'Agricultural development and environmental regulation in Ireland' in, editor(s)Henry Buller, Keith Hoggart , Agricultural Transformation, Food and Environment - Perspectives on European Rural Policy and Planning, vol.1, Aldershot, UK, Ashgate, 2001, pp109 - 130, [Hilary Tovey]
'Introduction' in, editor(s)Leo Granberg, Imre Kovach, Hilary Tovey , Europe's Green Ring, Aldershot UK, Ashgate, 2001, ppxiii - xxxvii, [Leo Granberg, Imre Kovach, Hilary Tovey]
Hilary Tovey, 'Sociology in Ireland - intimations of postmodernity?', Irish Journal of Sociology, 10, (2), 2001, p20
Hilary Tovey, Michel Blanc (Eds), Food, Nature and Society: Rural Life in Late Modernity, Aldershot, UK, Ashgate, 2001, v - 370pp
'Introduction' in, editor(s)Hilary Tovey, Michel Blanc , Food, Society and nature, Aldershot, UK, Ashgate, 2001, pp1 - 16, [Hilary Tovey]
'The co-operative movement in Ireland: Reconstructing civil society' in, editor(s)Hilary Tovey, Michel Blanc , Food, Nature and Society, Aldershot, UK, Ashgate, 2001, pp321 - 338, [Hilary Tovey]
Leo Granberg, Imre Kovach, Hilary Tovey (eds), Europe's Green Ring: Depeasantisation in the European Periphery, Aldershot, UK, Ashgate, 2001, v - 366pp
'Creating and re-creating modernity: peasantisation and de-peasantisation in Ireland' in, editor(s)Leo Granberg, Imre Kovach, Hilary Tovey , Europe's Green Ring, Aldershot, UK, Ashgate, 2001, pp306 - 329, [Hilary Tovey]
Hilary Tovey, 'Landliche armut - eine politisch-oekonomische Perspective', Berliner Debatte Initial, 12, (6), 2001, p5 - 16
Hilary Tovey, '"Messers, visionaries and organobureaucrats": dilemmas of institutionalisation in the Irish organic movement', Irish Journal of Sociology, 9, (1), 2000, p31 - 59
'Milk and modernity: dairying in contemporary Ireland' in, editor(s)H.H. Schwarzweller, A.P. Davison , Dairy Industry Restructuring - Research in Rural Sociology and Development vol.8, New York, Elsevier Science, 2000, pp47 - 73, [Hilary Tovey]
'Rural poverty: a political economy perspective' in, editor(s)D.G. Pringle, J. Walsh, M. Hennessy , Poor People Poor Places, Dublin, Oak Tree Press, 1999, pp97 - 122, [Hilary Tovey]
Hilary Tovey, 'Post-productivism, sustainable development, ecological modernisation: what is happening to EU agricultural policy?', Conference Proceedings, CAP and the Environment in the European Union, Netherlands, February, Agricultural Research Department, LEI-DLO, 1998, pp25
'Rural actors, food, and the post-modern transition' in, editor(s)Leo Granberg, Imre Kovach , Actors on the Changing European Countryside, Budapest, Hungary, Institute for Political Science, 1998, pp20 - 43, [Hilary Tovey]
Hilary Tovey, 'Agriculture and environment: struggles between conservation and production in the Irish countryside', Etudes Rurales, 1998
Hilary Tovey, 'Food, environmentalism and rural sociology: on the organic farming movement in Ireland', Sociologia Ruralis, 37, (1), 1997, p21 - 37
'Natural resource development and rural poverty' in, editor(s)Chris Curtin, Trutz Haase, Hilary Tovey , Poverty in Rural Ireland, Dublin, Oak Tree Press, 1996, pp128 - 171, [Hilary Tovey]
'Poverty in rural Ireland - policy issues' in, editor(s)Chris Curtin, Trutz Haase, Hilary Tovey , Poverty in Rural Ireland, Dublin, Oak Tree Press, 1996, pp307 - 321, [Hilary Tovey, Chris Curtin and Trutz Haase]
'Understanding rural poverty' in, editor(s)Chris Curtin, Trutz Haase, Hilary Tovey , Poverty in Rural Ireland, Dublin, Oak Tree Press, 1996, pp1 - 58, [Hilary Tovey, Trutz Haase, and Chris Curtin]
Chris Curtin, Trutz Haase, Hilary Tovey (eds), Poverty in Rural Ireland - a Political Economy Approach, Dublin, OakTree Press/Combat Poverty Agency, 1996, v - 321pp
'Rural management, public discourses and the farmer as environmental actor' in, editor(s)D. Symes, A. Jansen , Agricultural Restructuring and Rural Change in Europe, Wagingen, the Netherlands, Wagingen Agricultural University, 1994, pp209 - 219, [Hilary Tovey]
Hilary Tovey, 'Environmentalism in Ireland: two versions of development and modernity', International Sociology, 8, (4), 1993, p413 - 430
'Environmentalism in Ireland: modernisation and identity' in, editor(s)Patrick Clancy , Ireland and Poland - Comparative Perspectives, Dublin, Department of Sociology, UCD, 1992, pp275 - 287, [Hilary Tovey]
Hilary Tovey, 'Rural sociology in Ireland - a Review', Irish Journal of Sociology, 2, 1992, p96 - 121
Hilary Tovey, '"Of cabbages and kings": restructuring in the Irish food industry', Economic and Social Review, 22, (4), 1991, p330 - 350
Hal Abrahamson, Damian Hannan, Hilary Tovey, Why Irish?, Dublin, Bord na Gaeilge , 1989
Hilary Tovey, 'The state and the Irish language: the role of Bord na Gaeilge', International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 70, 1989, p53 - 68
Hilary Tovey, '"Local community" - in defense of a much criticised concept', Social Studies, 8, (3/4), 1987, p149 - 163
'Milking the farmer? Modernisation and marginalisation in Irish dairy farming' in, editor(s)Mary Kelly, Liam O'Dowd, James Wickham , Power, Conflict and Inequality, Dublin/London, Turoe Press/Marion Botars, 1982, pp68 - 89, [Hilary Tovey]
Hilary Tovey, Participation of rural actors in their own sustainable development, World Association for Sustainable Development, Naples, Italy, November 2006
D.F. Hannan, Hilary Tovey, 'Dependency, status group claims and ethnic identity', Proceedings of the 1978 Conference, Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Ireland, 1978, SAI, pp15
Hilary Tovey, Developing Agribusiness - Some Implications for Irish Farming
Hilary Tovey, Sustainable forms of rural development: some issues around cognitive inequality, European Sociological Association, Rural Research Stream, Torun, Poland, September 2005, edited by Hilary Tovey, Kzrysztof Gorlach , pp1-25
Hilary Tovey, 'Making food globally safe: HACCP and governance in the Irish food industry, IRSA XI World Congress of Rural Sociology, Trondheim, Norway, July 2004
Hilary Tovey, Environmental governance in Ireland - knowledge circulation and translations, European Society for Rural Sociology 21st Conference, Hungary, August 2005, pp1-22
Hilary Tovey, 'The invisibility of animals: knowledge and power', ESRC Workshop on Animal Genomics, Edinburgh, April 2006
Hilary Tovey, Language Policy and Socioeconomic Development in Ireland
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Hilary Tovey, Rural restructuring: current discourses in rural sociology, Rural Property Network, Workshop 2, Pryzsiek, Poland, 8 September , 2005, Rural Property Network, 1-16pp
Hilary Tovey, 'Civic privatism' or 'personal environmentalism'? Implications for democracy of the greening of citizenship, International Sociological Association Research Committee 24 Conference on Environment, Knowledge and Democracy, Marseille, France, July 2005, pp1-18
Research Expertise
Description
rural social change, environmental governance, nature, animals, biodiversity; sociology of food and agriculture; social movementsProjects
- Title
- A Cognitive Approach to Rural Sustainable Development (CORASON)
- Summary
- study of the multiple knowledges used/available for innovatory rural development projects, in 12 European countries (Lead institution: TCD)
- Funding Agency
- European Union
- Date From
- 1/9/2004
- Date To
- 31/8/2006
- Title
- Biological diversity and cultural diversity: exploring conflict around Ireland's contribution to Natura 2000
- Summary
- Ph. D. fellowship to study problems in the implementation of designated nature sites in Ireland
- Funding Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Date From
- April 2004
- Date To
- March 2007
- Title
- Environmental attitudes, values and behaviours in Ireland
- Summary
- Joint UCD/TCD project in 3 parts: (i) quantitative analysis of attitudes in representative sample of pop; (ii) qualitative analysis of environmental discourses in focus groups; (iii) qual. study of environmental activism (movements and activists)
- Funding Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Date From
- 2001
- Date To
- 2004
- Title
- The construction of global 'safe food': regulating the beef industry
- Summary
- Analysis of meanings, institutions and regulatory processes involved in the construction of 'safety' for beef; funded through the Institute for International Integration Studies
- Funding Agency
- Higher Education Authority
- Date From
- 2002
- Date To
- 2004
- Title
- Organic food and the construction of consumer trust
- Summary
- Joint Sligo Institute of Technology/TCD funded postgraduate fellowship to research organic food in Ireland, production and consumption
- Funding Agency
- Higher Education Authority
- Date From
- October 2002
- Date To
- September 2005
- Title
- Alternative food entrepreneurs as practical philanthropists
- Summary
- Study of organic and post-organic food producers in south-west Ireland which looked at their role as development actors within the rural economy and civil society
- Funding Agency
- Tara/Trinity Foundation
- Date From
- 2000
- Date To
- 2002
- Title
- Land, Culture and Crisis: from productionist success to fiscal and environmental impasse on European Farms 1940-90
- Summary
- study of European farm attitudes and practices towards nature, in the context of a changing agricultural policy regime
- Funding Agency
- European Commission
- Date From
- 1992
- Date To
- 1995
- Title
- Minority language planning and policy in Ireland
- Summary
- analysis of literature and secondary data to interpret national policy actions for the Irish language (joint author with Prof. O'Riagain, Linguistics Institute of Ireland)
- Funding Agency
- European Commission
- Date From
- 1997
- Date To
- 2000
Recognition
Representations
President ESRS 1999-2003
Member, International Editorial Board, Irish Journal of Sociology
Council member, International Rural Sociological Association
Member, Editorial Board, Sociologia Ruralis
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Elsevier/Jai Press Research in Rural Sociology and Development series
Member, National Platform for Biodiversity Research
National representative on management Committee, COST Action 12
Chair, Sociological Association of Ireland
Committee member, Sociological Association of Ireland
Memberships
Sociological Association of Ireland
European Sociological Association
European Society for Rural Sociology
International Rural Sociological Association
International Sociological Association