Abstract
The following chapter is a discussion on the overall context of the fieldwork. The primary focus is on social and cultural change in Ireland at the time of writing. It is also an account of how social change has been theorized in the past and how it is viewed now: transformations that have echoed through time, “more of the same,” and the genuinely “new” that go beyond “traditional fin de siecle anxieties.” The different consequences of these changes in relation to gender, class, and age will also be addressed. This chapter is also an analysis of suicide and unsustainable lifestyles and how these are structured: socially and culturally, by gender, and how they are positioned historically.
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