Politics, International Relations & Philosophy

With an undergraduate degree in Social and Political Science (Cambridge) and a Masters in Russian & East European Studies (Birmingham), I did my Ph.D. in Manchester on the political economy of urban regeneration. Subsequently as a research fellow at the ESRC-Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC) I was involved in a project examining the political economy of innovation in the global tomato industry. In 1999 I took up a lectureship in the Sociology Department at University College Dublin, developing courses in Urban Sociology, Environmental Sociology and Sociological Theory. During this time I developed a particular interest in the work of Norbert Elias - a theoretical orientation which continues to inform my work on many levels.

Right now I am writing a book on eco-cities and long term processes of social-ecological development. I am also developing projects on the political sociology of the Transition town movement, the politics and political economy of peak oil, permaculture and the future of food systems and human ecology.

Specific foci for funding applications include the 'zero emission development and the sustainable campus', sustainability and urban regeneration, and large scale restoration ecology in the wake of reform of the common agricultural policy.

In a similar vein I would be interested in developing projects looking at the political and sociological conditions for a 'steady-state' economy and ecological-economic certification and validation.

One Planet Institute

I am currently doing market research for a radical concept in post-graduate sustainability education. See One Planet Institute for details.

I am also a member of the Research Institute for Law Politics and Justice

See Further Information tab for more publications

• Yr 4 Wilderness and Civilisation (Environmental Politics Masters Programme)
• Yr 3 The Political Economy of Sustainable Development
• Yr 3 Violence and Civilisation
• Yr 3 Cities, People and Sustainability (in Geography)
• Yr 1 Politics of Sustainability

Books and Special Issues of Journals

• Loyal,S & Quilley,S (2004) The Sociology of Norbert Elias Quilley,S and Loyal, S (Eds.) (Cambridge University Press)
• Harvey,M, Quilley,S and Beynon,H (2002) Exploring the Tomato. Transformations of Nature, Society and Economy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar)
• Norbert Elias (2007 [1987]) Involvement and Detachment. 2nd Revised Edition. Vol.8  Complete Works of Norbert Elias. Ed. Stephen Quilley (Dublin: UCD Press)
• Quilley, S.  Leal,W and Dobson,A (Ed) ‘Catalyzing Sustainability: The Role of Higher Education’ – Special Issue of the International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development . Forthcoming.

Peer-reviewed articles and papers

• ‘Sustainability as Competitive Advantage in Higher Education in
  the UK’  with Andy Dobson and William Young, in  International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development. Forthcoming.
• ‘The Land Ethic as an Ecological Civilising Process: Aldo Leopold, Norbert Elias and Environmental Philosophy’ Environmental Ethics Summer 2009, Vol 31 (2): pp 115- 134.
• ‘Transition Skills: Skills for Transition to a Post Fossil-Fuel Age’ in The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy.Skills for a Changing World by Arran Stibbe (ed) [Peer Reviewed] (Green Books) Forthcoming September 2009.
• ‘Transition Towns: ‘Survival’ ‘Resilience’ and the Elusive Paradigm Shift in Sustainable Living’ – With John Barry. Eco-Politics Online, 2008 Vol 1(2): 12-31
• Quilley, SA & Beynon H (2006) ‘From Andean Weed to Culinary Staple: The Assimilation of the Tomato into Anglo-American Economy and Culture’ Food & History, Vol 4(1) 2006:169-220.
• Quilley, S & Beynon,H (2005) ‘The Rise and Fall of the Guernsey Tomato’ Food and History, Vol 3(1) 2005:151-196
• Quilley,S and S.Loyal (2005) ‘Science, cumulative knowledge, secondary involvement and synthesis: A Reply to Our Critics’, Current Sociology Vol 53 (1): 843-850
• Quilley,S and S.Loyal (2005) ‘Eliasian Sociology as a ‘Central Theory’ for the Human Sciences’, Current Sociology  Vol 53 (1): 807-828
• Quilley,S (2004) Social Development as Trophic Expansion: Food systems, Prosthetic Ecology and the Arrow of History, Amsterdam Sociologisch Tijdschrift,  September Vol 31(3): 321-348
• Quilley, S (2000) ‘Manchester First: From Municipal Socialism to the Entrepreneurial City’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR),  September:601-615.
• Quilley, S (1999) ‘Entrepreneurial Manchester: the Genesis of Elite Consensus’ Antipode, Vol. 31 (2): 185-211.
• Quilley, S & K. Ward (1999) ‘Global ‘System’ and Local ‘Personality’ in Urban Politics’ Space and Polity. Vol. 3 No 1 Spring: 5-33
• Quilley, S (1995) ‘Manchester's Village in the City: The Gay Vernacular in a Post-industrial Landscape of Power’ Transgressions 1 (Jun, 1995): 36-50

Chapters

• Quilley, S FORTHCOMING ‘Freewheelin’ Modernities: The Social Development & Ecology of the Global Bicycle’ in Globalization in Practice by Adam Tickell, Nigel Thrift and Steven Woolgar (eds.) (Oxford University Press).
• Quilley, S (2006) ‘Risk’ in the Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, edited by Bryan Turner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
• Quilley,S (2004) 'Ecology, 'Human Nature' and Civilising Processes: Biology and Sociology in the Work of Norbert Elias' in The Sociology of Norbert Elias, by Steven Loyal and Stephen Quilley (eds), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) pp.42-58.
• Quilley,S & S.Loyal (2004) 'Towards a Central Theory: The Scope and Relevance of Norbert Elias' in The Sociology of Norbert Elias by Steven Loyal and Stephen Quilley (eds) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) pp. 1-22.
• Quilley,S (2004) ‘Turf-wars in Dublin Bay: Nature As Artefact on Bull Island’, in Place and Non-Place: The Reconfiguration of Ireland (Irish Sociological Chronicles Vol 4) by Corcoran M and Peillon M (eds) (Dublin: IPA)
• Quilley,S (2002) 'The house that Jack built: Bungalow Bliss and the failure of urban policy in Ireland', in Ireland Unbound by Corcoran M and Peillon M (eds). 
• Quilley,S (2000) European Basic Income of the Race to the Bottom:  Why Politicians Might Come to Think the Unthinkable in Basic Income on the Agenda: Policy Objectives and Political Chances (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press) pp. 170-185.
• Quilley,S (2000) Entrepreneurial Turns: Municipal Socialism and After, in Revolutionary City:Restructuring Manchester, Jamie Peck and Kevin Ward (eds) (Manchester: Mandolin, MUP), pp.76-94.  
• Quilley,S  (1997) Gay Space and the Entrepreneurial City, in Queers in Space: Landscapes of Marginalised Sexualities and Communities, edited by Ingram et al., (Bay Press: Washington), pp. 275-292.