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Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries by Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien and Mark Taylor, Manchester University Press (2020)
Get PDFIn Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries, (Manchester University Press, 2020), authors Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien and Mark Taylor cut through a Gordian Knot of interconnected and complex factors that create and maintain multiple inequalities within the UK Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIs). Exhaustive research in micro and macro detail is presented over eleven chapters, drawn from a wide range of sources. This includes previous research projects that the core group of authors and others have produced including Panic! (2018), statistical evidence, surveys and longitudinal data. It also includes qualitative data in the form of extensive interviews with cultural and creative industry workers. The result is as much a manifesto for change as well as a valuable addition to scholarship countering the ‘celebratory discourse’ in relation to the CCIs over the past 25 years. (Friedman et al, 2017; McRobbie, A. 2016; Conor et al 2015; Gill, R., 2011)
The Politics and Polemics of Culture in Ireland, 1800–2010 by Pat Cooke (2022), Routledge
Get PDFCooke’s book surveys the history of cultural policy and discourse from the Act of Union to the Financial Crash of 2008. It demonstrates the different ways the role of culture has been conceived by the state with an eye for the ideological ironies when theory is put into practice. Particular focus is devoted to the postcolonial nature of these ironies. The author does not find cultural policy to be a result of deliberative and democratic processes. Rather it is largely ad-hoc, idiosyncratic, and personality-driven
Artist-led spaces during regeneration – an interview with Niamh Brown, curator at Ormston House
Get PDFIn this interview for Perspectives on Practice, Niamh Brown, curator at Ormston House, speaks to Ashling McGrory about the journey behind establishing Ormston House as a long-term, artist-led arts space in the heart of Limerick City. The discussion explores the importance of Ormston House’s relationships with its programme participants, local creative communities, and wider audiences in securing a 30-year tenancy agreement with Limerick City and County Council. The interview highlights various opportunities and challenges Ormston House encountered in securing a space for culture during a period of economic regeneration
Estimating the Cost of Housing in the Irish Market: A Rental Equivalence Approach
Get PDFMeasuring the cost of housing for official estimates of inflation is of particular importance given the share of household expenditure that housing accounts for. In this paper, we present a measure of owner-occupier housing inflation using a rental equivalence approach for Ireland. We use supervisory microdata on tenancy registrations from the Residential Tenancies Board coupled with census data on owner occupation by region and housing type to develop an estimate of rental equivalence for the period 2015 to 2019. We then use this housing cost in an estimate of inflation and find that adopting such a measure would increase the headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) by 1.6 percentage points in September 2019. We also discuss data and measurement issues with our approach, compare our index to other publicly available data and suggest areas for future research
Back to the Future? Macroprudential Policy and the Rebirth of Local Authority Mortgages in Ireland
Get PDFThe global financial crisis heralded a new era of macroprudential mortgage regulations such as loan-to-value and loan-to-income restrictions. Such measures safeguard the financial system, but can lead to credit access difficulties, in particular for first time buyers. In this paper, we examine the introduction of a direct public mortgage, the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan (RIHL), which aims to address these difficulties in Ireland. We use new unique granular microdata for applications to the scheme to explore the relationship between households applying to the scheme and the broader commercial market. We show that RIHL applicants, particularly those in urban areas, are under-served by the commercial market as they cannot borrow sufficient amounts due to the regulatory framework. RIHL enables these lower to middle income applicants to access mortgages and thus directly targets the externality from the regulations. We argue these public loans bridge credit gaps while ensuring the commercial banks are subject to strong macroprudential rules
Adenovirus Manipulation for Use as an Effective Delivery Vector
Get PDFAdenoviruses are used as delivery vectors in many different biotherapeutic systems to provide treatment options in several clinical settings. Their relative safety, potent induction of an immune response, and ease of production have allowed these vectors to appear at the forefront of clinical medicine in recent times, with applications in gene therapies, cancer treatments, and vaccines (including those for SARS-CoV-2). Their ease of genome manipulation and large gene transduction abilities make them particularly attractive for use as delivery vectors. This paper aims to show that, despite significant challenges, adenoviruses have generally been effective as delivery vectors for gene therapies and vaccination strategies. Taking advantage of their diversity and delineated viral tropism is critical to implementing effective clinical strategies, moderating the negative effects of pre-existing immunity, combatting transient action, and optimising target cell specificity. Overall, this paper argues that adenoviral vectors are a promising tool for use in a wide range of clinical applications
Changing Competition Design and Spectator Turnout: Evidence from the League of Ireland
Get PDFWe contribute to the literature on demand for football by investigating the effect of variations in competition design on spectator turnout. We examine attendance in the League of Ireland Premier Division for two periods with alternative league formats, estimating club-fixed effects regressions. Our results show that the change did not increase average attendance. Many determinants of attendance are robust to the reorganisation and balance measures are consistent under both formats. Like past evidence from the League, habit, team form, scheduling and travel are important determinants. Our results speak to league administrators and club owners attempting to optimise revenues
Announcement: 2021 Brendan Walsh Prize
Get PDFThe 2021 Brendan Walsh Prize has been awarded to Judith Delaney (University of Bath) and Paul Devereux (University College Dublin) for their paper “How Gender and Prior Disadvantage Predict Performance in College”. The Brendan Walsh Prize was inaugurated in 2018 to select the best paper published in The Economic and Social Review in the previous year. The prize includes €1,000 and a certificate. The selection was made by the following sub-committee of the Economic and Social Studies Council: Adele Bergin (Economic and Social Research Institute), John Cullinan (NUI Galway) Aedín Doris (Maynooth University), David Madden (UCD), and Carol Newman (Trinity College Dublin)
Cycling as Resistance: Women living under Islamic Authoritarianism
Get PDFThe regulation of women’s bodies under the Iranian and Saudi Arabian regimes has been the subject of much research. However, the majority of this research has fo- cused on restrictions on women’s clothing, access to the public sphere, and/or sport. This paper builds on these theories and suggests that the act of women cycling embodies resistance to the projection of the authoritarian regime’s power onto women’s bodies. Further, it argues that in rejecting the Iranian and Saudi Arabian regimes’ restrictions on mobility, women who cycle can participate in the reconstruction of gender from below
Editorial Note
No full textReflections on a year of student scientific research, from Editor-in-Chief Shubhangi Karmakar, and ex. Deputy Editor Lucy Fitzsimmons