Transforming Ireland

Transforming IrelandAs Irelands economic boom grounds to a sudden halt, Transforming Ireland offers a diverse range of critical analyses of its legacies across different areas of Irish life the media, racism, consumerism, sports, education, state surveillance and the pharmaceutical industry. The book also maps out a politics of change for Irish society.

It book discusses how different experiences of partition and consolidation informed or resisted architectural developments and urban planning

Why do multinational mining corporations use participation to undermine resistance

focusing on Gorbachev’s initiative to encourage perestroika in all the fraternal regimes of CEE outside the Soviet Union

The book also includes interviews not just with Weaver

performances and embodiments

Discussions of identity management are often confusing

this entry in the Directory of World Cinema series instead looks at African film as representing Africa for its own sake

and contradictions between Brecht's theatrical practices and his everyday life

including the origins of cinema in Barcelona

and an interview with Schlingensief himself provides the reader with insight into past and present projects

the book explores the idea of agency more generally: how Live Art has enabled the possibility for new kinds of thoughts

rather than hedgehogs who can do one thing right