1st Edition

Cultural Studies and Finance Capitalism The Economic Crisis and After

Edited By Mark Hayward Copyright 2012
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

While many discussions of the economic crisis of 2007-2008 have sought to explain the causes of the financial collapse, this volume looks to supplement these accounts by exploring possible alternatives for the post-crisis world in which we now live. However, rather than offering a strictly economic approach, Cultural Studies and Finance Capitalism argues that the crisis was as much cultural as... Read more

1. The Economic Crisis and After: Recovery, Reconstruction and The Promise of Cultural Studies Mark Hayward, American University of Paris, France

2. Modernity & Commensuration: A Reading of the contemporary (economic) crisis Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

3. The Lost Histories of American Economic Rights Jayson Harsin, American University of Paris, France

4. Spirits in the Night: Reasonableness and the Etho-Politics of Securities Law Darrin Hicks and Mathew Dunn, University of Denver, USA

5. After Neo-liberalism? Markets, states and the reinvention of public welfare John Clarke, Open University, UK

6. Celebrity and Schadenfreude: the cultural economy of fame in freefall Jo Littler, Middlesex University, UK, and Steven Cross, London College of Communication, UK

7. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly–Economies of Parable Randy Martin, New York University, USA

8. Unfinished Business: labour, management, and the creative industries Stefano Harney, Queen Mary University of London, UK

9. Afterword: After Austerity? Mark Hayward, American University of Paris, France

Biography

Mark Hayward is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, France. His research focuses on television, cultural policy and representations of the economy in popular culture. He has published essays on Modern Italy and Cultural Studies as well as translating several texts from Italian and French.