Never Waste a Crisis. Strategies of Representing and Managing Crisis after the Crash
CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS
Never Waste a Crisis. Strategies of Representing and Managing Crisis after the Crash
1-2 November, 2012, Midland Hotel, Morecambe
Deadline for paper proposals: 17 June, 2012, to be sent to
a.kutter@lancaster.ac.uk
Workshop organised by CPERC, Sociology Department, Lancaster University, within the frames
of Bob Jessop's ESRC professorial fellowship and the project "Great Transformations. A
Cultural Political Economy of Crisis Management"
The North Atlantic Financial Crisis that surfaced in 2007/08 and subsequent efforts at
crisis management have produced unstable constellations. Whereas the financial sector has
been rescued with large injections of capital but minor structural adjustments, the
symptoms in many economies of 'epic recession' and fiscal crisis remain. Among political
and economic elites, such finance-centred crisis management remains largely unchallenged.
At the same time, the economic and social costs of the austerity packages and of a
finance-dominated economy more generally have spurred contestation from various quarters.
The workshop on 'Strategies of Representing and Managing Crisis after the Crash' seeks to
explore the politics (broadly interpreted) of this constellation. Papers in the workshop
will review different agents' strategies of tackling the North Atlantic Financial Crisis
through discursive construction, contestation, and policy-making. We encourage the
submission of papers that highlight the discursive and semiotic of economic and political
processes or that situate the analysis of crisis discourse in broader questions of
political economy.
Speakers include so far: Colin Hay (tbc), David Howarth, Brigitte Young
Please find the full call attached.
For more details and updates
see
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/cperc/events/seminars.htm and
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/cperc/researc...formations.htm