1st Edition

Languages of Economic Crises

Edited By Sonya Marie Scott Copyright 2022
130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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).