1st Edition

The Pedagogy of Economic, Political and Social Crises Dynamics, Construals and Lessons

Edited By Bob Jessop, Karim Knio Copyright 2019
306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Crises have been studied in many disciplines and from diverse perspectives for at least 150 years. Yet recent decades have seen a marked increase in the crisis literature, reflecting growing awareness of crisis phenomena from the 1970s onwards. Responding to this mainstream literature, this edited collection makes six key innovations. First, it distinguishes between crises as event and crises... Read more

Preface. Part I Introducing Some Key Themes. 1. Introduction: Organizational Perspectives on Crisiology and Learning, Karim Knio and Bob Jessop. 2. The Diversity of Crisis Literatures and Learning Processes, Karim Knio. 3. Valid Construals and/or Correct Readings? On the Symptomatology of Crises, Bob Jessop. Part II Resilience in and through Crises. 4. The 2008 Crisis and the Resilience of the Neo-Liberal Order, Andrew Gamble. 5. Crises are the New Normal: Governing Through Resilience, David Chandler. Part III Non-Learning, Fantasy Learning, and Potential Learning. 6. Vision and Ideology in Economic Theory: The Post-Crisis Persistence of Mainstream General Equilibrium Macroeconomics, Matthew Watson. 7. The Crisis in Democracy and Authoritarian Neoliberalism After the Eurozone Crisis: Fantastic Debates and Power as Affording not to Learn from Mistakes, Magnus Ryner. 8. After the Crisis: Lessons on Economic and Political Paradigms and Policies, Robert Boyer. Part IV Fetishistic or Reflexive Learning? 9. The EU’s Competitiveness Fetish: Industrial Renaissance Through Internal Devaluation, Really?, Angela Wigger. 10. The Legitimacy Crisis Within International Criminal Justice and the Importance of Critical, Reflexive Learning, Jeff Handmaker. Part V Limits to Learning and the Scope for Overcoming Them. 11. Insouciance, Indifference and any Inspiration in the Face of Emergent Global Crises?, Des Gasper. 12. The Permanent Crisis of Development Aid, Wil Hout. 13. Crisis, Common Sense and the Limits to Learning in EU External Governance, Zuzana Novakova. Part VI Conclusion. 14. Critical realism, Symptomatology, and the Pedagogy of Crisis, Bob Jessop and Karim Knio

Biography

Bob Jessop is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Cultural Political Economy Research Centre at Lancaster University, UK. He is best known for his contributions to state theory, critical political economy, the analysis of comparative welfare regimes, critical governance studies, and cultural political economy.



Karim Knio is Associate Professor in International Political Economy and Governance at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands. He is also the current Associate Managing Editor of European Political Science Review (EPSR). His research focuses on the intersection between international political economy, governance and public policy.