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Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Ireland's Crisis and Social Bonds -- Rules and relationships -- Studying social bonds in Ireland -- Conclusion -- Chapter 1: A History of Rules and Relationships in Ireland -- Colonialism, rules and trauma -- Relationships and intimacy groups in nineteenth-century Ireland -- Rules in nineteenth-century Ireland -- Catholicism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Change and the Ties that Bind -- Intimacy and the rules 1922-1960 -- Transition and new rules -- Family, community and 'being good' -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Rules, Relationships and Belonging -- Being an 'Irish' citizen -- Nation and being good -- Belonging to 'our own' -- Migrants and 'our own' -- Struggles with 'our own' -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: The Parallel Worlds of Rules and Relationships in Ireland -- Knowing, trusting, communicating -- Belonging and conflict -- Being fair and being there -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Everyday Irish Politics -- The importance of 'doing turns' -- Knowing, trusting, communicating -- Belonging and conflict -- Being there and being fair -- Case Study: Michael Lowry -- A dual morality -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Rules, Relationships and Elites -- Case Study: Sean Quinn -- Elites and economic change -- Elites and Irish politics -- Voters, elites and political intimacy -- Knowing, trusting, communicating -- Case Study: Export Credit Insurance -- Rewriting rules -- Case Study: Golf -- Belonging and conflict -- Being there and being fair -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Rules and Two-Tier Austerity -- Austerity and fairness -- Austerity and debt -- Austerity and justice -- Welfare, tax and penalty points -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Past and Present -- Re-enactment -- Strengthening the rules? -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Copyright -- About the Author -- About Gill & -- Macmillan.

New social movement (NSM) theory has been the dominant framework for the analysis of European social movements since the 1970s. The framework has generally focused on movements articulating `new' grievances such as the women's, ecology and peace movements. This article attempts to use this perspective to account for the campaigns of indigenous European linguistic minorities for own-language television services. The analysis suggests that social movement theorists need to return to the work of early NSM advocates such as Alain Touraine and Alberto Melucci, who focused on the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial society. This work helps explain how the goals set by social movements within more traditional cleavages have been transformed and restructured by the transition to post-industrial society.

Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: Studying Minority Language Media; Chapter 2 Functional Completeness in Minority Language Media; Chapter 3 Minority Language Media and the Public Sphere; Chapter 4 The Media and Language Maintenance; Chapter 5 The Role of Networks in Minority Language Television Campaigns; Chapter 6 From Media to Multimedia: Workflows and Language in the Digital Economy; Chapter 7 Speaking Up: A Brief History of Minority Languages and the Electronic Media Worldwide; Chapter 8 Minority Languages and the Internet: New Threats, New Opportunities