Languages of Economic Crises

ISBN-13: 9781032024714 / Miękka / 2023 / 114 str.

Opis

This book offers a critical engagement with languages that describe, perpetuate, respond to, and resist economic crises.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Sonya Marie Scott teaches in the Department of Social Science at York University, Canada. Her research focuses on economic subjectivity, epistemology, language and economic crises, and the history of economic thought. She is author of Architectures of Economic Subjectivity: The Philosophical Foundations of the Subject in the History of Economic Thought (2013).