Full Description
Following the fallout of the 2008 recession in the Republic of Ireland, its creative economy is framed as a window onto a range of other shifts in contemporary Irish society, including the recent rise of Irish nationalism. This book follows a group of young activists and artists who were facing increasingly precarious housing and labour market and were involved in a range of activist campaigns - particularly for reproductive rights and social and affordable housing, critiquing what they referred to as 'neoliberalism'.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Neoliberalism, Critique and the Anthropology of Politics
Part I: The Neoliberal City
Chapter 1. Mapping Neoliberalism
Chapter 2. The Value of the Gift
Part II: Forms of Critique
Chapter 3. Art and the Bricoleur
Chapter 4. Activism and the Engineer
Part III: Creativity and Transformation
Chapter 5. Class, Work and Creativity
Chapter 6. Housing and Irish Nationalism
Conclusion: Critique Refigured
References
Index
