Dr Paddy Dolan
Lecturer
in Consumer Research
School of Marketing
Faculty of Business
Dublin Institute of Technology
Aungier Street (Room 3-007)
Dublin 2
p: (+353-1) 4027158
f: (+353-1) 4027198
e: paddy.dolan@dit.ie
PhD Sociology (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Paddy Dolan’s first degree is in Marketing (DIT), but he has since moved in a more sociological direction, graduating with an MSocSc (Sociology) from UCD in 1996 and a PhD in Sociology from Goldsmiths College (University of London) in 2005. His thesis (The Development of Consumer Culture, Subjectivity and National Identity in Ireland, 1900–1980) was supervised by Don Slater, London School of Economics, and examined developing and contesting cultures of consumption using the theories of Norbert Elias. He was awarded a Government of Ireland Senior Research Scholarship in 2004–5 by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences to facilitate the completion of his PhD. He continues to examine consumer subjectivity from a figurational (Eliasian) perspective, and has recently extended this theoretical focus to the study of Gaelic games in Ireland (with Dr John Connolly of DCU).
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Connolly, John and Paddy Dolan (forthcoming) ‘The civilizing and sportization of Gaelic football in Ireland: 1884–2009’, Journal of Historical Sociology.
Dolan, Paddy (2009) ‘Figurational dynamics and parliamentary discourses of living standards in Ireland’, British Journal of Sociology 60(4): 721–39.
Dolan, Paddy and John Connolly (2009) ‘The civilizing of hurling in Ireland’, Sport in Society 12(2): 193–208.
Dolan, Paddy (2009) ‘Developing consumer subjectivity in Ireland: 1900–1980’, Journal of Consumer Culture 9(1): 117–41.
Dolan, Paddy (2002), ‘The sustainability of “sustainable consumption”’, Journal of Macromarketing 22(2): 170–181.
Edited Books
Hogan, John, Paddy Dolan and Paul Donnelly (eds) (2009) Approaches to Qualitative Research – Theory & Its Practical Application: A Guide for Dissertation Students. Cork: Oak Tree Press.
Book Chapters
Connolly, John and Paddy Dolan (2009) ‘The Civilising of Gaelic football’, in D. McAnallen, D. Hassan and R. Hegarty (eds) The Evolution of the GAA, pp. 154–63. Belfast: Stair Uladh.
Dolan, Paddy (2009) ‘Using documents: A figurational approach’, in J. Hogan, P. Dolan and P. Donnelly (eds) Approaches to Qualitative Research - Theory & Its Practical Application: A Guide for Dissertation Students, pp. 185–208. Cork: Oak Tree Press.
Dolan, Paddy and John Connolly (2009) ‘Civilizing processes and hurling in Ireland: 1884–2000’, in D. H. Jütting, B. Schulze and U. Müller (eds) Local Sport in Europe, pp. 76–84. Berlin: Waxmann.
Conference Papers
Dolan, Paddy (2009) ‘Consumer culture and (inter)national identification processes: a figurational approach’, paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 8–11 August 2009.
Dolan, Paddy and John Connolly (2009) ‘The quest for pleasure and the prevalence of pain: The civilizing and decivilizing of Gaelic football spectators in Ireland’, paper presented at the International Sociology of Sport Association World Congress, Utrecht, Netherlands, 15–19 July 2009.
Connolly, John and Paddy Dolan (2009) ‘Organizational centralization as figurational dynamics: movements and countermovements in an Irish sports organization’, paper presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, Barcelona, 2–4 July 2009.
Connolly, John and Paddy Dolan (2009) ‘The civilising of Gaelic games in Ireland’, paper presented at a Conference Celebrating 125 Years of The GAA: ‘For Community, Club, County & Country’, Cardinal Ó Fiaich Library & Archive, Armagh, 13–14 March 2009.
Connolly, John and Paddy Dolan (2008) ‘Sportization, civilizing processes and Gaelic football in Ireland’, paper presented at the European Association for Sociology of Sport Conference: Sport, Culture & Society, Bled, Slovenia, 22–25 May 2008.
Dolan, Paddy (2008) ‘Social interdependencies and the advancing threshold of consumption needs’, paper presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 26 February–2 March 2008.
Dolan, Paddy (2007) ‘The development of the consumer in Ireland, 1900–80’, paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, August 11–14 2007.
Connolly, John and Paddy Dolan (2007) ‘Civilizing processes and Hurling in Ireland: 1884–2000’, paper presented at the European Association for Sociology of Sport Conference: Local Sport in Europe, Münster, Germany, 31 May–3 June 2007.
Dolan, Paddy (2004) ‘The social constitution of consumer culture and the meaning of luxury in Ireland, 1958–73’, paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 16–19 August 2004.
Research Supervision
Current research students:
Orla Dooley (Self, home comforts and sustainability)
Deirdre Duffy (Technologies of the self, media and masculinity)
Karen Rafferty (Class, capital, fashion and femininity)
Phil Ryan (Water and civilizing processes in Dublin)
Gary Sinclair (Music, identity and emotions)
Paddy welcomes email enquiries from potential research students interested in sociological approaches to consumption, leisure, sport and organizations