1st Edition
The Discourse of Financial Crisis and Austerity Critical analyses of business and economics across disciplines
1. Financial crisis and austerity: interdisciplinary concerns in critical discourse studies Darren Kelsey, Frank Mueller, Andrea Whittle and Majid KhosraviNik
2. Accounting for the banking crisis: repertoires of agency and structure Andrea Whittle and Frank Mueller
3. Protesting Too Much: Alastair Darling’s constructions after the Financial Crash Catherine Walsh
4. Evaluating policy as argument: the public debate over the first UK austerity budget Isabela Fairclough
5. How Malthusian ideology crept into the newsroom: British tabloids and the coverage of the ‘underclass’ Steven Harkins and Jairo Lugo-Ocando
6. ‘I think it’s absolutely exorbitant!’: how UK television news reported the shareholder vote on executive remuneration at Barclays in 2012 Richard Thomas
7. Organizing the (Sociomaterial) Economy: Ritual, agency, and economic models Amanda Szabo
Biography
Darren Kelsey is Head of Media, Culture, Heritage at Newcastle University, UK. Darren's publications have focused on media mythologies and ideology, war and terrorism, moral storytelling, the banking crisis, right wing populism, journalism ethics, social media, surveillance and affect theory. Darren is a co-convenor of the Newcastle Critical Discourse Group.
Frank Mueller is Professor of Strategy and Organisation at Newcastle University Business School, UK. His overall research focus is on understanding organisational change as a discursive, political and strategic project under conditions of neo-liberalism and managerialism.
Andrea Whittle is Professor of Management and Organization Studies at Newcastle University Business School, UK. Her research is driven by a passion for understanding the role of language in business and management settings, and is informed by theories and methodologies from the fields of discourse analysis, narrative, discursive psychology, ethnography, ethnomethodology, and conversation analysis.
Majid KhosraviNik is a Lecturer in Media and Discourse Studies at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests lie in theory, methodology and application of critical discourse analysis in a range of topics including the intersection of discourse and (national/ethnic/group) identity. He is a co-convenor of the Newcastle Critical Discourse Group.
