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Languages of Economic Crises - Hardcover

 
9781032024707: Languages of Economic Crises
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1032024704 ISBN 13: 9781032024707
Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

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 range of connections between language and crises: from the metaphors used historically to describe economic crises, to the languages deployed within periods of crises and economic struggle, to the popular responses thereto (including political manifestations and worker-organized enterprises). Also considered are the implications for democratic participation and gender relations, and the lack of language to express economic experience amongst certain groups.

With essays from seven contributors representing five different countries, this collection has global relevance in a time marked by economic volatility and upheaval, and will serve as a valuable resource for those interested in the politics of language, economic discourse and the epistemological complexities of economic crises.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy.

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About the Author

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).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032024704
ISBN 13 
9781032024707
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
114
Editor
Scott Sonya Marie