Format:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781849641272
Series Statement:
Contemporary Irish Studies
Content:
Critical account of the economic boom in Ireland and the neoliberal culture that has accompanied it.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: The Reinvention of Ireland: A Critical Perspective -- The Celtic Tiger and its Orthodoxy -- Interrogating Culture -- Sites of Resistance and Reinvention -- Notes -- 2 Contested Pedigrees of the Celtic Tiger -- Cultural Political Economy -- Inventing Ireland -- The Bases for Ireland's Reinvention -- Principles of Integration: Nationalist versus Neo-liberal Ireland -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Culture and State in Ireland's New Economy -- Culture and Economy in Tension -- The Implosion of Economy and Culture -- Conclusion: The End of Culture as Critique -- 4 Speed Limits: Ireland, Globalisation and the War against Time -- From Geo-politics to Chrono-politics -- Revolting Farmers -- Fixed Margins and Immigration Controls -- A Step Forward? -- Notes -- 5 Citizenship and Education: A Crisis of the Republic? -- Patriotism and Civic Virtue: From Nationalism to Republicanism -- The Classical Ideal in the Passage to Modernity: Liberal Qualms -- Citizenship and Malaises of Modernity -- A Renewal of Civil Society? -- The Role of the State and the Education of Citizens -- Notes -- 6 The Global Cure? History, Therapy and the Celtic Tiger -- Soundtracks for the Soul -- Ghosts of the Recent Past -- The Owl and the Tiger -- Cosmopolitanism in a Historical Frame -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Colonialism and the Celtic Tiger: Legacies of History and the Quest for Vision -- Colonialism and the Celtic Tiger -- Psychology and the Legacies of History -- Psychosocial Legacies of History I: Cultural Pathologies -- Psychosocial Legacies of History II: Cultural Strengths -- The Importance of Vision -- 8 Religion and the Celtic Tiger: The Cultural Legacies of Anti-Catholicism in Ireland -- Drumcree -- Ireland's Privileged Minority -- Catholicism and the Irish State -- Conclusion -- Note -- 9 The Celtic Tiger's Media Pundits.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745318257
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780745318257
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3386503
