%0 Journal Article
%T The run of ourselves: Shame, guilt and confession in post
%A Clare Scully
%A Marcus Free
%J International Journal of Cultural Studies
%@ 1460-356X
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1367877916646470
%X This article examines the emergence of the themes of shame and guilt in Irish print and broadcast media in the wake of Ireland¡¯s 2008 economic collapse. It considers how the potential search for explanation of the crisis as a manifestation of unregulated banking and development sectors was displaced onto a confessional discursive pattern in which emphasis was placed on rampant borrowing and consumption as reflective of collective narcissism and acquisitive greed. Hence the logic that ¡®hubris¡¯ led inevitably to a national fall from grace and the corresponding resurgence of postcolonial shame; and the interplay between cultural nationalist and neoliberal discourses of redemption through confession of guilt and disciplinary self-regulation as the purging of excess
%K Celtic Tiger
%K financial crisis
%K guilt
%K Ireland
%K media
%K shame
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1367877916646470