Transforming Ireland : challenges, critiques, resources / edited by Debbie Ging, Michael Cronin and Peadar Kirby.
Contributor(s): Ging, Debbie
| Cronin, Michael | Kirby, Peadar.
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BookPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, c2009Description: ix, 254 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9780719078927 (hbk.); 071907892X (hbk.); 0719078938 (pbk.); 9780719078934 (pbk.).Subject(s): Economic development -- Ireland | Income distribution -- Ireland | Ireland -- Economic conditions -- 1949- | Ireland -- Economic policy | Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1949-DDC classification: 338.9417
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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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of tables
- Transforming Ireland: challenges, critiques, resources
- Section I Culture and society: The Irish language and IrelandâÇÖs socio--economic development
- If I wanted to go there I wouldn't start from here: re--imagining a multi
- All
- Section II Media and social change: Irish neoliberalism, media, and the politics of discourse
- Republic of Ireland PLC--testing the limits of marketisation
- Section III Social control: Rebel spirits? From reaction to regulation
- Irish education, mercantile transformations and a deeply--discharged public sphere
- Pharmaceuticals, progress and psychiatric contention in early twenty--first century Ireland
- Section IV Power and politics: Celtic, Christian and cosmopolitan: âÇ migrantsâÇÖ and the mediation of exceptional globalisation
- The politics of redirecting social policy: towards a double movement
- Contesting the politics of inequality
- Transforming Ireland: resources
- Index