Silicon slipways and slippery slopes: techno-rationality and the reinvigoration of neoliberal logics in the Dublin Docklands |
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Authors: | Carla Maria Kayanan Christian Eichenmüller Joseph Chambers |
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Affiliation: | 1. A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USAkayanan@umich.edu;3. Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institut für Geographie, Erlangen, Germany;4. Department of Geography, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
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Abstract: | The Dublin Docklands have become a key site for technology-friendly urban development in post-crisis Ireland. Local urban governance institutions have recommitted Dublin to the objective of ‘competitiveness’, enabling an expansion of the technology sector within a newly established Special Development Zone. We argue that this mantra of technology-friendly development is a new phase of neoliberal restructuring of Dublin’s economy. Using interviews, content analysis, and building on the ‘Silicon Docks’ as case site, findings show that, just as neoliberalism was rendered most visible by the crisis, these respective institutions reinvigorated neoliberal logics through an endorsement of the technology sector. |
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Keywords: | Silicon Docks Dublin Docklands neoliberalism technology Ireland techno-rationality |
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