{"product_id":"wild-tides-media-infrastructure-and-financial-crisis-in-ireland-hardback-9781478033653","title":"Wild Tides; Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland (Hardback) 9781478033653","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWild Tides\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMedia Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatrick Brodie (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781478033653\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 March 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e298 pages, 32 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.572 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Intellectually elegant and ambitious in scope, Patrick Brodie paints a critical portrait of how aggressive financialization has shaped Ireland’s media industries and practices. This book will make a resonant contribution to growing interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersections of globalization, political economy, media studies, and environmental and energy studies.”—Hunter Vaughan, author of \u003ci\u003eHollywood's Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Patrick Brodie shows us how global media industries shape the precarious fortunes of local people and creative workers on Irish soil. Exploring sites as diverse as data centers and film studios, this book provides a thoughtful and timely account of the contradictory workings of economy, culture, and state in Ireland’s struggle for a just and equitable future.”—Anna McCarthy, Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWild Tides\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eWild Tides\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the multifarious, unexpected ways that financialization reaches into the daily life of a nation.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction. A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Turbulent Waters: Media Infrastructure and the World Economy  35\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ghostly Currents and Creative Erosion  74\u003cbr\u003e 3. Waves of Austerity: Film Policy and the Infrastructural Geographies of Media Labor  117\u003cbr\u003e 4. Storm Clouds: Technology Industries and the Climate of Crisis  159\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Calmer Seas  208\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  225\u003cbr\u003e Notes  229\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  245\u003cbr\u003e Index  275\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591026733336,"sku":"9781478033653","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/wild-tides-media-infrastructure-and-financial-crisis-in-ireland-hardback-9781478033653","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}