Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland - Softcover

Brodie, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1478038543 ISBN 13: 9781478038542

Verlag: Duke University Press, 2026

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In Wild Tides, Patrick Brodie maps the shifting fortunes of the Irish economy before the 2008 financial crisis up to 2020, outlining how the Irish state moved from rampant and irresponsible financialized development to incentivizing private media infrastructure and policy as instruments for economic recovery. Brodie contends that, while the Irish state's investment in creative and technological sectors of media was supposed to bring resources back into the country and stabilize the economy, it instead rendered the country even more vulnerable to future instability and transferred wealth into the hands of multinational corporations. Through ethnographic work and close engagement with the Irish state's policy and planning across a number of key media infrastructure sites, Brodie unfolds the very real environmental and social impacts of Ireland's naturalized model of financialized, foreign direct investment-led infrastructural development. Richly researched and comprehensively argued, Wild Tides reveals the multifarious, unexpected ways that financialization reaches into the daily life of a nation.

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Patrick Brodie is Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1478038543
• ISBN 13: 9781478038542
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300
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