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Tag: Politics

Now ‘new politics’ really does mean something

Posted on June 9, 2017March 26, 2019 by peadarkirby

The UK election gave us a night of electoral drama so unique for its unpredictability and upending of deeply held assumptions that it is impossible to find anything comparable. This truly was ‘new politics’, not in the Irish sense of a political cliché to hide paralysis, but in the sense of people, particularly the young, galvanised by a vision that things could be different and defying the carefully crafted regime of the privileged. It is…

France moves into a new political space

Posted on April 23, 2017March 26, 2019 by peadarkirby

So, the French have shown again that politics really matters and has become the space where different visions of the future are being fought out. And, while the centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron now appears certain to be France’s next president, the first round of the 2017 presidential election has already brought massive changes. As we have seen elsewhere, voters are decisively rejecting long-established mainstream parties and giving support both to new parties and, in increasing…

Ireland’s mitigation planning: where are the big ideas?

Posted on March 15, 2017March 26, 2019 by peadarkirby

The publication of Ireland’s first draft national mitigation plan as mandated by the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development Act of 2015 may in time be seen as the Irish state’s first attempt seriously to face the enormous challenges of decarbonising our economy by 2050 as we are now legally obliged to do under the 2015 Act. Yet, it shows the state has a very long way to go in finding responses adequate to the challenges….

2016: Moving (finally) beyond neoliberalism, but where?

Posted on December 31, 2016March 26, 2019 by peadarkirby

For all its surprises, 2016 will go down as the year that finally marked the death knell of neoliberalism. It had seemed to survive the financial collapse of 2008; indeed, the main responses to this collapse, most especially in Europe, served to strengthen market players and further weaken both states and civil society. But it cannot survive the political shocks of 2016. This is for two principal reasons, one bottom up and the other top…

Catherine Murphy

Posted on December 12, 2016March 26, 2019 by peadarkirby

After so much posturing by the so-called parliamentary left during the current Dáil, it is so heartening at last to see some real left-wing politics emerging, through the courageous and determined action of Catherine Murphy. Deputy Murphy’s persistence in uncovering the close relationship between one of the country’s most active capitalists and the state-owned banking corporation, IBRC, is revealing the nexus between large capital and the state in a way that is rare in our…

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New book from Peadar Kirby

Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis: Transforming Market Society in the Era of Climate Change

Has politics reached breaking point? Rather than defending liberalism or abandoning it, how can a socially just and ecological alternative be built? My new book investigates the causes of our current multifaceted global crisis by drawing on the work of Karl Polanyi. This book explores Polanyi’s theory that social disruptions result from the attempt to run society according to the rules of the market. Drawing on these ideas, it outlines pathways towards an alternative future that overcome weaknesses in Marxism. Linking the ecological, political and socio-economic crises, The book identifies that an alternative socio-ecological model is emerging, consistent with the insights of Polanyi. Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis is being published in early December 2020 and is a contribution to key debates on the future of politics, on the low-carbon transition, on automation and on the emerging world order

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