From toxic industries to green extractivism: rural environmental struggles, multinational corporations and Ireland’s postcolonial ecological regime

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The Saorstát is a Neo-colony

Crucial to the idea of neo-colonialism is that direct imperial control has been superseded by more sustainable forms of governance, via the construction of local political institutions that do not challenge free trade or foreign investment and that these limitations are partially enforced or upheld on a domestic level, by a native class who canContinue reading “The Saorstát is a Neo-colony”