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Book SynopsisAs 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.
Table of ContentsList 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
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