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Patrick Bresnihan

Young Academy Ireland Member

Lecturer MU

Patrick Bresnihan is a lecturer in the Department of Geography at Maynooth University. Patrick works across the interdisciplinary fields of political ecology, science and technology studies, and environmental humanities. His research has looked at different but related concerns around water, land, and energy in Ireland and how these speak to broader questions of colonial and postcolonial development, environmental politics and the ‘green’ transition. His book, Transforming the Fisheries: Neoliberalism, Nature and the Commons (University of Nebraska Press, 2016) won the Geography Society of Ireland Book of the Year in 2018.  

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