1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996210695103316

Autore

Coulter Colin

Titolo

The end of Irish history? : critical reflections on the Celtic Tiger / / edited by Colin Coulter and Steve Coleman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester University Press, 2003

Manchester, England : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018, 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-280-73416-7

9786610734160

1-84779-036-4

1-4175-7802-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : digital file(s)

Disciplina

941.70824

Soggetti

Macroeconomics - Ireland

Ireland History 1922-

Ireland Civilization 20th century

Ireland Economic conditions 1949-

Ireland Social conditions 1973-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The end of Irish history? An introduction to the book / Colin Coulter --2. Macroeconomic policy in the Celtic Tiger: a critical reassessment / Denis O'Hearn --3. Neither Boston nor Berlin: class polarisation and neo-liberalism in the Irish Republic / Kieran Allen --4. Welcome to the Celtic Tiger: racism, immigration and the state / Steve Loyal --5. Irish women and the Celtic Tiger economy / Sinéad Kennedy --6. Globalised Ireland, or, contemporary transformations of national identity? / G. Honor Fagan --7. Millenarianism and utopianism in the new Ireland: the tragedy (and comedy) of accelerated modernisation / Kieran Keohane and Carmen Kuhling --8. Fear and loathing in lost ages: journeys through postmodern Dublin / David Slattery --9. Contemporary discourses of working, earning and spending: acceptance, critique and the bigger picture / Anne B. Ryan --10. The



centralised government of liquidity: community, language and culture under the Celtic Tiger / Steve Coleman --11. Northern Ireland: a reminder from the present / Pete Shirlow --Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Ireland appears to be in the throes of a remarkable process of social and economic change. This text scrutinizes the interpretations and prescriptions that inform the deceptively simple metaphor of the ""Celtic Tiger"".

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557462903321

Autore

Wakefield Stephanie

Titolo

Anthropocene Back Loop : Experimentation in Unsafe Operating Space

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Open Humanities Press, 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

CCC2 Irreversibility

Soggetti

Applied ecology

Urban & municipal planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

In the face of climate chaos, post-truth politics, and growing tribalisms, it's clear that liberalism's old structures are unraveling. Drawing on resilience ecology, Stephanie Wakefield suggests we understand such phenomena to be indicators that we are entering the Anthropocene's back loop, a time of release and collapse, confusion and reorientation, in which not only populations and climates are being upended but also physical and metaphysical grounds. Anthropocene Back Loop takes us on a journey though different responses and manifestations of the back loop, exploring urban resilience infrastructures, post-apocalyptic imaginaries in fiction and critical theory, and a range of everyday practices from survival skills and physical fitness to experimentation with one's soul. Rather than returning to liberalism's safe operating space, what is needed and what



can be seen in many contemporary practices, Wakefield argues, are forms of experimentation geared toward charting autonomous modes of living within the back loop's new unsafe operating spaces. Such efforts often let go of old frameworks, hubristically experiment with new uses, cultivate an allowance for the unknown, and embrace a confidence in exploring one's own pathways. What these iterations suggest is that the back loop, long imagined in the singular, is spiraling out into myriad trajectories. After all, if we take seriously the idea that liberalism's single world order is unraveling, we have the opportunity - one many have long fought for - to create our own new codes, if not new worlds. Being in the back loop means that we have already crossed various tipping points, and that in doing so, everything from social practices, technologies, and truth to plants, animals, and places have become shaken out of their normal frameworks. We are free to move on new planes.