Transforming Ireland Challenges, Critiques, Resources

by Ging, Debbie; Cronin, Michael; Kirby, Peadar

• ISBN13: 9780719078934
• ISBN10: 0719078938
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

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 of public life such as 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 Irelandoffers a more substantial and considered analysis, uncovering the hidden sides of everyday aspects of Irish life. It reveals that, virtually unnoticed by the media, there exist lively debates in today's Ireland which draw on international insights about globalization 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 the general reader.

Author Biography

Debbie Ging is Lecturer in the School of Communications at Dublin City University.

Michael Cronin is Professor in the School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University.

Peadar Kirby is Professor of International Politics and Public Policy at the University of Limerick.

 

 

Table of Contents

List of tables * Transforming Ireland: challenges, critiques, resources-- Michael Cronin, Peadar Kirby and Debbie Ging * Section I. Culture and society: The Irish language and Ireland’s socio--economic development-- John Walsh * If I wanted to go there I wouldn't start from here: re--imagining a multi--ethnic nation-- Piaras Mac Éinrí * All--consuming Images: new gender formations in post--Celtic--Tiger Ireland-- Debbie Ging * Section II. Media and social change: Irish neoliberalism, media, and the politics of discourse-- Sean Phelan * Republic of Ireland PLC-- testing the limits of marketisation-- Roddy Flynn * Section III. Social control: Rebel spirits? From reaction to regulation-- Michael Cronin * Irish education, mercantile transformations and a deeply--discharged public sphere-- Denis O’Sullivan * Pharmaceuticals, progress and psychiatric contention in early twenty--first century Ireland-- Orla O’Donovan * Section IV. Power and politics: Celtic, Christian and cosmopolitan: ‘migrants’ and the mediation of exceptional globalisation-- Gavan Titley * The politics of redirecting social policy: towards a double movement-- Mary Murphy * Contesting the politics of inequality-- Peadar Kirby *  Transforming Ireland: resources-- Peadar Kirby, Debbie Ging and Michael Cronin * Index

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