Tom Fitzsimons Author

Tom Fitzsimons was a writer and researcher who lived in a Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking) community in the South West of Ireland. Having returned to education as a mature student, he completed a PhD in 2020 and sadly passed away in February 2021. This book is based on his doctoral research and continues his goal to contribute to scholarship on rural sociology, alternative agriculture and theoretical and conceptual debates on recognition and distributional cognition and contribute to the policy debate at an international level.