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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on November 15, 2007
Community Development Journal 2008 43(1):103-106; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsm057
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After Optimism? Ireland, Racism, and Globalization

Silvia Brandi

Post-Graduate Research Student, Department of Applied Social Studies, University College, Cork, Ireland; email: silbrandi@hotmail.com

R. Lentin and R. McVeigh Metro Eireann Publications, Dublin, UK, 2006, 208 pp., ISBN 0-9553385-0-6, {euro} 16

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The publication of a book on the specificities of Irish racism considered within a global context is welcome for a country located near the top of the Globalization Index. Indeed, it reflects the need to analyse the local/national phenomenon of racism in the light of such major world developments as the New Economy, the intensification of global mobility and migration, and the war on/of terror.

With the engagement typical of critical theorists and activists, passionately located on the side of the powerless, Ronit Lentin and Robbie McVeigh conceive this work as a follow-up to their previous edited book Racism and Anti-Racism in Ireland (2002). However, in contrast to the optimism which characterized their former collection – it charted the development of the young Irish anti-racist movement since 1997, a date marking the European Year Against Racism – this more recent work is marked by an overt pessimism. Their pessimism relates . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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