The Discourse of Financial Crisis and Austerity : critical analyses of business and economics across disciplines

Kelsey, D; Mueller, F; Whittle, A; KhosraviNik, M

The Discourse of Financial Crisis and Austerity : critical analyses of business and economics across disciplines

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Darren Kelsey ORCiD, Professor Frank Mueller, Professor Andrea Whittle, Dr Majid Khosravinik ORCiD

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Abstract

This book demonstrates the importance of understanding how political rhetoric, financial reporting and media coverage of austerity in transnational contexts is significant to the communicative, social and economic environments in which we live. It considers how aspects of moral storytelling, language, representation and ideology operate through societies in financial crisis and through governments that impose austerity programmes on public spending. Whilst many of the debates covered here are concerned with UK economic policy and British social contexts, the contributions also consider examples from other countries that reflect similar concerns on the ideological operations of austerity and financial discourse. The multiple discursive contexts of austerity demonstrate the breadth of social concerns and conflicts that have developed in societies and institutions following the global economic crisis of 2008. Through its interdisciplinary focus on this topic, this book provides an important contribution across multiple subject areas, with shared interests in critical and analytical approaches to discourse, power and language in social contexts reflecting the healthy collaborative scope of critical discourse studies as a field of research.