Transforming Ireland: Challenges, Critiques, Resources

Hardback

Main Details

Title Transforming Ireland: Challenges, Critiques, Resources
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Debbie Ging
Edited by Michael G. Cronin
Edited by Peadar Kirby
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:264
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreDevelopment economics
ISBN/Barcode 9780719078927
ClassificationsDewey:320.9415
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Tables

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 1 September 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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. -- .

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