Activities per year
Personal profile
Research Focus
Darren Colbourne is a PhD researcher in the school for History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's University Belfast. He is also associated with The Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Security, Peace, and Justice.
Darren's research focuses on an historical re-evaluation of the People's Democracy. He analyzes the ideological progression and fluid group-identification of the PD by utilizing a comparative, interdisciplinary methodology. His dissertation pairs archival and primary source research with constructivist political theory, situating the PD's organizational identification within the domestic Irish context and the international New Left phenomenon. To accomplish this, he puts the PD into conversation with the experiences of the American Student's for a Democratic Society, highlighting key moments of similarity and difference in their ideological trajectories. He is also interested in historical institutionalism and relational sociology, utilizing those fields to draw linkages between disparate student movements in Europe and the United States.
Teaching
Darren has two years of teaching experience at the American secondary school level, where he instructed classes in World History and American Literature. He instructs small sections for the Pespectives on Politics Tutorial (Fall 2022) and The Long Road to Black Lives Matter (Spring 2023).
Interests
The People's Democracy, the Irish New Left, the American New Left, Constructivism, socialism and the development of leftist thought, University history, mobilization history/theory
Activities
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Relational Outcomes of Collective Action
Darren Colbourne (Participant)
16 Mar 2023 → 17 Mar 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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2022/2023 Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice Fireside Chats
Darren Colbourne (Organiser)
Oct 2022 → Dec 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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The Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice Postgraduate Conference
Darren Colbourne (Organiser)
22 Jun 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Troubling Rhetoric: Discourse Contestation and Irish Republican Army Narratives (1962-1972)
Darren Colbourne (Speaker)
28 May 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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2021/2022 Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice Fireside Chats
Darren Colbourne (Organiser)
09 Feb 2021 → 08 May 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course