Transforming Ireland

Challenges, critiques, resources
Herausgeber: Ging, Debbie; Kirby, Peadar; Cronin, Michael G.

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Produktbeschreibung

As Ireland's economic boom grounds to a sudden halt, Transforming Ireland offers a diverse range of critical analyses of its legacies across different areas of Irish life - the media, racism, consumerism, sports, education, state surveillance and the pharmaceutical industry. The book also maps out a politics of change for Irish society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9780719078934
• ISBN-10: 0719078938
• Artikelnr.: 26572498

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables 1. Transforming Ireland: challenges, critiques, resources
Michael Cronin, Peadar Kirby and Debbie Ging Section I: Culture and society 2. The Irish language and Ireland's socio
economic development
John Walsh 3. If I wanted to go there I wouldn't start from here: re
imagining a multi
ethnic nation
Piaras Mac Éinrí 4. All
consuming Images: new gender formations in post
Celtic
Tiger Ireland
Debbie Ging Section II: Media and social change 5. Irish neoliberalism, media, and the politics of discourse
Sean Phelan 6. Republic of Ireland PLC
testing the limits of marketisation
Roddy Flynn Section III: Social control 7. Rebel spirits? From reaction to regulation
Michael Cronin 8. Irish education, mercantile transformations and a deeply
discharged public sphere
Denis O'Sullivan 9. Pharmaceuticals, progress and psychiatric contention in early twenty
first century Ireland
Orla O'Donovan Section IV: Power and politics 10. Celtic, Christian and cosmopolitan: 'migrants' and the mediation of exceptional globalisation
Gavan Titley 11. The politics of redirecting social policy: towards a double movement
Mary Murphy 12: Contesting the politics of inequality
Peadar Kirby 13. Transforming Ireland: resources
Peadar Kirby, Debbie Ging and Michael Cronin Index