{"product_id":"wild-tides-patrick-brodie-9781478038542","title":"Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland","description":"In \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick Brodie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478038543\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478038542\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs","brand":"Patrick Brodie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47930562314495,"sku":"9781478038542","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d8b55ffa-0509-4d16-83f0-d028a4fafb1a.jpg?v=1766342661","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wild-tides-patrick-brodie-9781478038542","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}