Overview

In Wild Tides, 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, Wild Tides reveals the multifarious, unexpected ways that financialization reaches into the daily life of a nation.

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“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 Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies “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

“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, Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies “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

Author Information

Patrick Brodie is Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin.

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