Transforming Ireland: Challenges, Critiques, Resources - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0719078938 ISBN 13: 9780719078934

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2009

Riassunto

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 Ireland offers 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.

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L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0719078938
• ISBN 13: 9780719078934
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 254
• Redattore: Ging Debbie, Cronin Michael, Kirby Peadar