Understanding Limerick: Social Exclusion and Change - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 185918457X ISBN 13: 9781859184578

Publisher: Cork University Press, 2011

Synopsis

In 2007, following the Fitzgerald Report, the Irish government launched a 500 million euro project for the regeneration of areas of severe deprivation in Limerick City. The establishment of these projects, though greeted with great public acclaim, was in many ways an acknowledgement of the failure of successive public policies to tackle the complex sets of problems which existed in Limerick. Although the regeneration process is now in full swing, there is evidence that the approach being adopted by state agencies is not drawing comprehensively on the body of research which already exists on social deprivation in Limerick.

Understanding Limerick: Social Exclusion and Change addresses this gap by gathering together recent expert research on Limerick which draws on a range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives. By piecing together these expert perspectives, it argues that the severely deprived in Limerick have experienced a range of different forms of social exclusion which have intersected in an almost unique way to create the current crisis in some neighborhoods. Contributors to this text have expertise in a range of research fields including sociology, social policy, planning and urban regeneration, gender and ethnicity studies as well as law and criminal justice perspectives. This edited collection provides not only an overview of available research on Limerick but also attempts to establish how lessons learned from evaluating social exclusion in Limerick might contribute to broader national and international policy debates.

About this title

About the Author:

Niamh Hourigan Lecturer and Director of the MA Programme in the Sociology of Development and Globalisation at the Department of Sociology, University College Cork.

Review:

Feuds, drugs, poverty and neglect coexist in Limerick with loving families, intimate communities, sporting prowess and pride in place. To really know a city requires observation from several vantage points and the multiple perspectives provided in this book yield a rich understanding of what makes Limerick special.A" Professor Ian O'Donnell, UCD Institute of Criminology This book is original, innovative, nuanced and important. It is a major contribution to our understanding of how social exclusion and inequality currently works within late-modern cities. It combines a remarkably powerful explanation of what has gone wrong in Limerick with strong evidence of how to move forward. Professor Mairtin Mac an Ghaill, University of Birmingham This book vividly explains how our society, in denying respect to its most disadvantaged citizens, creates the conditions for gangsterism and criminality. Its inequality stupid! Vincent Brown, The Irish Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Cork University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 185918457X
• ISBN 13: 9781859184578
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 316
• Editor: Hourigan Niamh