Transforming Ireland

Challenges, Critiques, Resources

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

AvDebbie Ging,Michael G. Cronin,Peadar Kirby

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This is the first sustained and broad-ranging critique of the legacies of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger boom. Contributors identify the damaging impact that the free market has had on a wide range of areas in public life, including the media and the pharmaceutical industry, and also examine its influence on health, education, state surveillance, immigrants, the welfare state, consumerism and the Irish language. Challenging the notion that there is no alternative for Ireland but the present economic and political dispensation, experts map out an alternative politics that could create spaces for hope and renewal in contemporary Ireland.In a society whose public debates have been largely dominated by the instrumentalist logic of stockbroker economists and the regressive populism of talk-radio shock jocks, Transforming Ireland offers a more substantial and considered analysis, uncovering hidden aspects of everyday Irish life. It reveals that, virtually unnoticed by the media, there exist lively debates in today’s Ireland which draw on international insights about globalisation to probe how it is reshaping Irish society. Covering four principal topics – culture and society, media and social change, social control, and power and politics – this impressive volume opens new and hopeful perspectives for students and also the general reader. Though primarily a book about Ireland, it is also a book about today’s form of globalisation, offering a rare and accessible analysis of the damage done to society when market forces are given free rein.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-09-01
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9780719078927

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List of tables1. Transforming Ireland: challenges, critiques, resources – Michael Cronin, Peadar Kirby and Debbie GingSection I: Culture and society2. The Irish language and Ireland’s socio-economic development – John Walsh3. If I wanted to go there I wouldn't start from here: re-imagining a multi-ethnic nation – Piaras Mac Éinrí4. All-consuming Images: new gender formations in post-Celtic-Tiger Ireland – Debbie GingSection II: Media and social change5. Irish neoliberalism, media, and the politics of discourse – Sean Phelan 6. Republic of Ireland PLC – testing the limits of marketisation – Roddy FlynnSection III: Social control7. Rebel spirits? From reaction to regulation – Michael Cronin8. Irish education, mercantile transformations and a deeply-discharged public sphere – Denis O’Sullivan9. Pharmaceuticals, progress and psychiatric contention in early twenty-first century Ireland – Orla O’DonovanSection IV: Power and politics10. Celtic, Christian and cosmopolitan: ‘migrants’ and the mediation of exceptional globalisation – Gavan Titley11. The politics of redirecting social policy: towards a double movement – Mary Murphy12: Contesting the politics of inequality – Peadar Kirby13. Transforming Ireland: resources – Peadar Kirby, Debbie Ging and Michael CroninIndex

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