Languages of economic crises

Contributor(s):

Scott, Sonya Marie

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Routledge London 2022Description: xv, 113 pISBN:

9781032024707

Subject(s):

Business cycles

DDC classification:

338.542 SCO

Summary: This book offers a critical engagement with languages that describe, perpetuate, respond to, and resist economic crises. Unlike many volumes on economic crises that offer economistic explanations of their causes or policy suggestions for their resolution, this collection explores the different types of language used to deal with complex economic phenomena. The chapters in this volume examine a range of connections between language and crises: from the metaphors used historically to describe economic crises, to the languages deployed within periods of crises and economic struggle, to the popular responses thereto (including political manifestations and worker-organized enterprises). Also considered are the implications for democratic participation and gender relations, and the lack of language to express economic experience amongst certain groups. With essays from seven contributors representing five different countries, this collection has global relevance in a time marked by economic volatility and upheaval, and will serve as a valuable resource for those interested in the politics of language, economic discourse and the epistemological complexities of economic crises. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy.

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Table of Contents
Foreword

Christopher Bradd and Sonya Marie Scott

Introduction: Languages of economic crises: narrating, resisting, speaking otherwise

Sonya Marie Scott

1. The metaphors of crises

Daniele Besomi

2. Vultures, debt and desire: the vulture metaphor and Argentina’s sovereign debt crisis

Sonya Marie Scott

3. Confronting Spain’s crises: from the language of the plazas to the rise of Podemos

Jose Luis Carretero Miramar and Christopher Bradd

4. Recuperating and (re)learning the language of autogestión in Argentina’s empresas recuperadas worker cooperatives

Marcelo Vieta

5. Making sense of precarity: talking about economic insecurity with millennials in Canada

Nancy Worth

6. Language, gender and crisis: An interview with Katherine Gibson

Katherine Gibson and Sonya Marie Scott

This book offers a critical engagement with languages that describe, perpetuate, respond to, and resist economic crises. Unlike many volumes on economic crises that offer economistic explanations of their causes or policy suggestions for their resolution, this collection explores the different types of language used to deal with complex economic phenomena. The chapters in this volume examine a range of connections between language and crises: from the metaphors used historically to describe economic crises, to the languages deployed within periods of crises and economic struggle, to the popular responses thereto (including political manifestations and worker-organized enterprises). Also considered are the implications for democratic participation and gender relations, and the lack of language to express economic experience amongst certain groups.

With essays from seven contributors representing five different countries, this collection has global relevance in a time marked by economic volatility and upheaval, and will serve as a valuable resource for those interested in the politics of language, economic discourse and the epistemological complexities of economic crises.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy.

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