New paper by NIRSA folk at NUI Maynooth/QUB.
Placing neoliberalism: the rise and fall of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger, by Rob Kitchin, Cian O’Callaghan, Mark Boyle, Justin Gleeson and Karen Keaveney
Abstract.In this paper we provide an account of the property-led boom and bust which has brought Ireland to the point of bankruptcy. Our account details the pivotal role which neoliberal policy played in guiding the course of the country’s recent history, but also heightens awareness of the how the Irish case might, in turn, instruct and illuminate mappings and explanations of neoliberalism’s concrete histories and geographies. To this end, we begin by scrutinising the terms and conditions under which the Irish state might usefully be regarded as neoliberal. Attention is then given to uncovering the causes of the Irish property bubble, the housing oversupply it created, and the proposed solution to this oversupply. In the conclusion we draw attention to the contributions which our case study might make to the wider literature of critical human geographies of neoliberalism, forwarding three concepts which emerge from the Irish story which may have wider resonance, and might constitute a useful fleshing out of theoretical framings of concrete and particular neoliberalisms: path amplification, neoliberalism’s topologies and topographies, and accumulation by repossession.
Published in Environment and Planning A 44(6): 1302 – 1326
PDF: EPA Placing Neoliberalism 2012
July 24, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Reblogged this on European Energy Geographies.
July 24, 2012 at 5:36 pm
It is a useful paper. I am going to print it out, study it and then comment.
July 24, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Hi is there any way of accessing this article for non-subscribers to this journal
July 25, 2012 at 7:50 am
Mark, the PDF is available by clicking on the link next to ‘PDF’ at the bottom of the post.
July 25, 2012 at 9:53 pm
Thanks that’s great looking forward to reading this.
July 24, 2012 at 8:15 pm
Thank you for posting this, it is a very useful post.