Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure, Built Space, and Financialization in Post-Crisis Ireland

The research to be undertaken in Ireland is a part of my dissertation project, entitled “Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure, Built Space, and Financialization in Post-Crisis Ireland.” The project widely investigates the intersections of various industries—media, tech, tourism, and finance—which have been strategically deployed in Ireland’s post-financial crisis political and cultural landscape as areas for recovery, growth, and re-development, with a particular focus on space and planning due to the centrality of property finance within the global economic downturn. The title of the project refers to the dictum that “a rising tide lifts all boats,” a slogan favored by Seán Lemass, seen to be the pioneer of liberalization in the Irish economy during his tenure as Taoiseach in the 1960s. However, the industries promoted since the crisis, which tend to instrumentalize Irish “culture” towards goals of economic development, participate within an increasingly turbulent political, economic, and environmental climate. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Kay Dickinson

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Partner:

Trinity College Dublin

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

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