Negotiating Crisis: Neoliberal Power in Austerity Ireland

The financial crisis revealed the ugly side of neoliberal globalization and the international impact has been vast. But how has it been experienced on an everyday level? What does this mean for the way citizens understand their place in the global political economy? Does this have implications for political theory? This book explores how the financial crisis has been explained and experienced by the Irish people, through examples from everyday popular culture. But, it is also about more than the Ireland context: it constructs an innovative analytical framework that will be used as a model for case-focused work across critical IPE. Combining Foucault’s governmentality with guidance from Autonomist Marxism, the book explores transnational, national, and micropolitical dynamics driving understandings of ‘responsibility’ for the crisis. By exploring debates around power, subjectivity and economic ideology, the book sheds new light on material and everyday practices of the crisis. It gives fresh insight to IPE researchers interested in expanding the subject’s contribution to understanding the implications of the financial crisis.