Social partnership's boiling point: Environmental issues and social responses to neo-liberal policy in Ireland

In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 279-293

Abstract

Ireland has witnessed a succession of community-based responses to regional episodes of ecological degradation in recent years. This paper will argue that the basis for these disputes is the Irish state's neo-liberal and neo-corporatist policy framework, which favours accelerated and reckless infrastructural development while excluding community concerns about health and environmental issues.