@article{a741934f69fa4c658de0606a253392da,
title = "Ireland, before the end: A psychically numb and partially alienated kayfabe state, accepting of biopolitical commodification and predation upon sections of its population",
abstract = "This article outlines some of my experiences of growing up in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s. It then goes on to discuss what I see are the main changes that Ireland experienced since then. The article argues that by the 2020s Ireland had become a kayfabe state, accepting of biopolitical commodification and indifferent to predation upon segments its population.",
keywords = "biopolitical commodity, Ireland, kayfabe, predatory state, psychic numbing",
author = "Myles Balfe",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2025. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).",
year = "2025",
doi = "10.1177/07916035251388896",
language = "English",
journal = "Irish Journal of Sociology",
issn = "0791-6035",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Ltd",
}