Author: Darren Kelsey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351984993
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 173
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This book demonstrates the importance of understanding how political rhetoric, financial reporting and media coverage of austerity in transnational contexts is significant to the communicative, social and economic environments in which we live. It considers how aspects of moral storytelling, language, representation and ideology operate through societies in financial crisis and through governments that impose austerity programmes on public spending. Whilst many of the debates covered here are concerned with UK economic policy and British social contexts, the contributions also consider examples from other countries that reflect similar concerns on the ideological operations of austerity and financial discourse. The multiple discursive contexts of austerity demonstrate the breadth of social concerns and conflicts that have developed in societies and institutions following the global economic crisis of 2008. Through its interdisciplinary focus on this topic, this book provides an important contribution across multiple subject areas, with shared interests in critical and analytical approaches to discourse, power and language in social contexts reflecting the healthy collaborative scope of critical discourse studies as a field of research. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Discourse Studies.
Author: Kate Power
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351802917
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 355
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In the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, governments around the developed world coordinated policy moves to stimulate economic activity and avert a depression. In subsequent years, however, cuts to public expenditure, or austerity, have become the dominant narrative in public debate on economic policy. This unique collaboration between economists and linguists examines manifestations of the discourses of austerity as these have played out in media, policy and academic settings across Europe and the Americas. Adopting a critical perspective, it seeks to elucidate the discursive and argumentation strategies used to consolidate austerity as the dominant economic policy narrative of the twenty-first century.
Author: Mimi Huang
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027261547
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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In times of crisis, how do people conceptualise and communicate their experiences through different forms and channels? How can original research in cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis and crisis studies advance our understanding of the ways in which we interact with and communicate about crisis events? In answering these questions, this volume examines the unique functions, features and applications of the metaphors and frames that emerge from and give shape to crisis-related discourses. The chapters in this volume present original concepts, approaches, authentic data and findings of crisis discourses in a wide range of organisational, political and personal contexts that affect a diverse body of language users and communities. This book will appeal to a broad readership in linguistics, sociological studies, cognitive sciences, crisis studies as well as language and communication researchers and practitioners.
Author: Stephen McBride
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487521952
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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"This volume focuses on the state's role in managing the fall-out from the global economic and financial crisis since 2008. For a brief moment, roughly from 2008-2010, governments and central banks appeared to borrow from Keynes to save the global economy. The contributors, however, take the view that to see those stimulus measures as "Keynesian" is a misinterpretation. Rather, neoliberalism demonstrated considerable resiliency despite its responsibility for the deep and prolonged crisis. The "austerian" analysis of the crisis is--historical, ignores its deeper roots, and rests upon a triumph of discourse involving blame-shifting from the under-regulated private sector to public or sovereign debt--for which the public authorities are responsible."--
Author: Ben Clift
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198813082
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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This book analyses the IMF's role as arbiter of legitimate economic policy since the 2008 crash, and during aftershocks of the Eurozone crisis.
Author: Florian Schui
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300203934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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The author examines the history of austerity efforts in order to access the possibility of success today.
Author: Laura Basu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781138897304
Category : Financial crises
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Introduction / Laura Basu, Steve Schifferes and Sophie Knowles -- The UK experience. The UK news media and austerity: trends since the global financial crisis / Steve Schifferes and Sophie Knowles -- Media amnesia and the crisis / Laura Basu -- Austerity, the media and the UK public / Mike Berry -- The economic recovery on tv news / Richard Thomas -- The Geddes axe: the press and Britain's first austerity drive / Richard Roberts -- Continental perspectives. Covering the Euro crisis: cleavages and convergence between nations / Heinz-Werner Nienstedt -- Austerity policies in the European press: a divided Europe? / Ángel Arrese -- Safeguarding the status quo: the press and the emergence of a new left in Greece and Spain / Maria Kyriakidou and Iñaki Garcia-Blanco -- Race and class in German media representations of the "Greek crisis" / Yiannis Mylonas -- Journalistic practice and the crisis. Whose economy, whose news? / Aeron Davis -- "Media macro": why the news media ignores economic experts / Simon Wren-Lewis -- Financial journalists, the financial crisis and the "crisis" in journalism / Sophie Knowles -- Reform in retreat: the media, the banks and the attack on Dodd-Frank / Adam Cox -- Social media, social movements and the crisis. Social media and the capitalist crisis / Christian Fuchs -- Narrative mediation of the Occupy Movement: a case study of Stockholm and Latvia / Anne Kaun & Maria Francesca Murru -- Facebook and the new right: how populist politicians use social media to reimagine the news in Finland and the UK / Niko Hatakka -- #thisisacoup: the emergence of an anti-austerity hashtag across Europe's twittersphere / Max Hänska & Stefan Bauchowitz
Author: Bryan M. Evans
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487522037
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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Bryan M. Evans, Stephen McBride, and their contributors delve further into the more practical, ground-level side of the austerity equation in Austerity: The Lived Experience. Economically, austerity policies cannot be seen to work in the way elite interests claim that they do. Rather than soften the blow of the economic and financial crisis of 2008 for ordinary citizens, policies of austerity slow growth and lead to increased inequality. While political consent for such policies may have been achieved, it was reached amidst significant levels of disaffection and strong opposition to the extremes of austerity. The authors build their analysis in three sections, looking alternatively at theoretical and ideological dimensions of the lived experience of austerity; how austerity plays out in various public sector occupations and policy domains; and the class dimensions of austerity. The result is a ground-breaking contribution to the study of austerity politics and policies.
Author: Sylvia Walby
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 150950320X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits and austerity has led to a political crisis which threatens to become a democratic crisis. Borne unevenly, the effects of the crisis are exacerbating class and gender inequalities. Rival interpretations – a focus on ‘austerity’ and reduction in welfare spending versus a focus on ‘financial crisis’ and democratic regulation of finance – are used to justify radically diverse policies for the distribution of resources and strategies for economic growth, and contested gender relations lie at the heart of these debates. The future consequences of the crisis depend upon whether there is a deepening of democratic institutions, including in the European Union. Sylvia Walby offers an alternative framework within which to theorize crisis, drawing on complexity science and situating this within the wider field of study of risk, disaster and catastrophe. In doing so, she offers a critique and revision of the social science needed to understand the crisis.
Author: Diane Negra
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822376539
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 541
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This timely, necessary collection of essays provides feminist analyses of a recession-era media culture characterized by the reemergence and refashioning of familiar gender tropes, including crisis masculinity, coping women, and postfeminist self-renewal. Interpreting media forms as diverse as reality television, financial journalism, novels, lifestyle blogs, popular cinema, and advertising, the contributors reveal gendered narratives that recur across media forms too often considered in isolation from one another. They also show how, with a few notable exceptions, recession-era popular culture promotes affective normalcy and transformative individual enterprise under duress while avoiding meaningful critique of the privileged white male or the destructive aspects of Western capitalism. By acknowledging the contradictions between political rhetoric and popular culture, and between diverse screen fantasies and lived realities, Gendering the Recession helps to make sense of our postboom cultural moment. Contributors. Sarah Banet-Weiser, Hamilton Carroll, Hannah Hamad, Anikó Imre, Suzanne Leonard, Isabel Molina-Guzmán, Sinéad Molony, Elizabeth Nathanson, Diane Negra, Tim Snelson, Yvonne Tasker, Pamela Thoma
