This article examines how a specific form of lifestyle programming indexes both national concerns and transnational financial trends as well as diffuse social fissures in Irish life. Emerging in the late 1990s amid a construction boom, Irish property television adapted and thrived through the subsequent post-2008 crash, the concomitant implementation of austerity policies and an ensuing housing crisis. This boom-to-bust cycle was precipitated by the financialization of property within Ireland, a process whereby housing and commercial property became embedded in transnational financial market cycles. Through an analysis of three key examples of the genre, this article argues that for the most part, Irish property television seeks to hold at bay anxieties generated by a growing wealth and income disparity in the state. While this programming displays an ideological commitment to the “investor subjects” of home-ownership, increasingly the concerns of those excluded from this version of the good life are evident.

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家庭真相：当代爱尔兰的房地产电视、金融化和住房危机

本文研究了一种特定形式的生活方式规划如何将国家关注和跨国金融趋势以及爱尔兰生活中弥散的社会裂痕联系起来。爱尔兰房地产电视在 1990 年代后期的建筑热潮中兴起，在随后的 2008 年崩盘、紧缩政策的同时实施和随之而来的住房危机中适应并蓬勃发展。这种繁荣到萧条的周期是由爱尔兰境内的财产金融化促成的，这一过程使住房和商业财产嵌入到跨国金融市场周期中。通过对该类型的三个关键示例的分析，本文认为，在大多数情况下，爱尔兰房地产电视试图抑制因该州日益扩大的财富和收入差距而产生的焦虑。