A Time of Reckoning (Paperback)

Adrian Peace

ISBN 10: 0919666892 / ISBN 13: 9780919666894

Published by Memorial University Press, 1997

About this Item

Paperback. In 1988, Merrell Dow, an American transnational company, proposed to build a chemical factory in a dairy farming locality in County Cork, Ireland. Local residents organized a social protest movement to defend their economic livelihood and rural way of life. Their campaign forced a public hearing before Ireland's national planning review body, to try to overturn early county council permission to go ahead with the corporation's plan. This anthropological study demonstrates how subtle persuasion in a controlled context helps to create, maintain, produce, and reproduce hegemony in social democratic politics. In 1988, a proposal to build a chemical factory on dairy farmland in Ireland sparked a passionate community protest. Residents rallied to protect their rural way of life and economic future, with a public hearing exposing how measured persuasion reinforces established power in social democratic politics. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Time of Reckoning (Paperback)
• Publisher: Memorial University Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0919666892
• ISBN 13: 9780919666894
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

In 1988, Merrell Dow, an American transnational company, proposed to build a chemical factory in a dairy farming locality in County Cork, Ireland. Local residents organized a social protest movement to defend their economic livelihood and rural way of life. Their campaign forced a public hearing before Ireland's national planning review body, to try to overturn early county council permission to go ahead with the corporation's plan. This anthropological study demonstrates how subtle persuasion in a controlled context helps to create, maintain, produce, and reproduce hegemony in social democratic politics.

About the Author

Adrian Peace has a D.Phil. in Social Anthropology from the University of Sussex. His early research was conducted among migrant workers in southwestern Nigeria, and focused on questions of ethnicity and class, detailed in a series of articles and a book. Since the mid-1980's, Dr. Peace has spent almost three years researching the changing character of an Irish village, and the politics of environmental issues. He also writes on the anthropology of environmentalism in Australia, particularly conflicts in the native forests of New South Wales.