Austerity A Journey To An Unknown Territory

Author : Roland Sturm,Tim Griebel,Thorsten Winkelmann
Publisher : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Debts, Public
ISBN : 384873849X

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Austerity: a Journey to an Unknown Territory by Roland Sturm,Tim Griebel,Thorsten Winkelmann Pdf

Austerity is still a hotly debated topic that cannot be reduced to cuts in public spending. On the contrary, austerity is a complex terrain that stretches across economic, political and cultural dimensions. Some observers, therefore, speak of an 'Age of Austerity'. But the causes and consequences of this central issue of our time remain controversial. Supporters of austerity argue that it is a rational way back to financial sustainability and economic growth, whereas critics think that it is a dangerous neo-liberal idea that "bites" or even "kills". This book combines tools from linguistics, economics and political science to deal with the complexity of the different lands of austerity and the scientific "tribes" that live in them. This combination allows the book's authors to find an innovative way through the still rather unchartered territory of austerity.

Author : Tim Griebel,Stefan Evert,Philipp Heinrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000097986

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Multimodal Approaches to Media Discourses by Tim Griebel,Stefan Evert,Philipp Heinrich Pdf

Multimodal Approaches to Media Discourses brings together contributions from an interdisciplinary group of scholars on corpus-assisted analyses of multimodal data on austerity discourses in the United Kingdom, which extend and expand on the understanding of austerity but also of the methodologies used to analyse multimodal corpora. The volume demonstrates how the austerity measures introduced in response to global economic and financial crises in recent years can be viewed as being more complexly layered than they appear, not simply reduced to their connections to spending cuts and fiscal debt. The book employs an innovative methodological approach, in which established and emerging scholars from linguistics and computational and social sciences critically reflect on the exact same set of data – multimodal texts and articles from The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph from 2010 to 2016. This framework allows for the exploration of the role of the media in mediating the public’s assessment of austerity and the ideas, actors, emotions, geographies and broader material context which contribute to such perceptions. In so doing, the volume also offers unique insights into systematic analyses to multimodal data which may be applied to other topics and connected with other disciplines. Enhancing our awareness and assessment of austerity in public discourse and of the methodologies to study it, this book is key reading for students and researchers in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, multimodality, and those working at the intersection of these fields.

Author : Sandra L. Borden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000387216

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The Routledge Companion to Media and Poverty by Sandra L. Borden Pdf

Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, this collection explores the complex, and often problematic, ways in which the news media shapes perceptions of poverty. Editor Sandra L. Borden and a diverse collection of scholars and journalists question exactly how the news media can reinforce (or undermine) poverty and privilege. This book is divided into five parts that examine philosophical principles for reporting on poverty, the history and nature of poverty coverage, problematic representations of people experiencing poverty, poverty coverage as part of reporting on public policy and positive possibilities for poverty coverage. Each section provides an introduction to the topic, as well as a broad selection of essays illuminating key issues and a Q&A with a relevant journalist. Topics covered include news coverage of corporate philanthropy, structural bias in reporting, representations of the working poor, the moral demands of vulnerability and agency, community empowerment and citizen media. The book’s broad focus considers media and poverty at both the local and global levels with contributors from 16 countries. This is an ideal reference for students and scholars of media, communication and journalism who are studying topics involving the media and social justice, as well as journalists, activists and policy makers working in these areas.

Author : Corrado Macchiarelli,Mara Monti,Claudia Wiesner,Sebastian Diessner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030443481

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The European Central Bank between the Financial Crisis and Populisms by Corrado Macchiarelli,Mara Monti,Claudia Wiesner,Sebastian Diessner Pdf

​In light of the handover from the European Central Bank President Mario Draghi to Christine Lagarde in November 2019, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the events which unfolded since the euro area sovereign debt crisis in 2010 up until today. The book focuses on the far-reaching implications of the last decade, shedding light on a wide spectrum of political, economic and financial aspects of the European poly-crises and how monetary policy reacted to these challenges. The book places particular emphasis on the tensions that the supranational central bank was subject to during this period, and on their outcomes in terms of the policies, their legitimacy, and their public reception. As such, this book will be relevant not only to understand the political implications of the past crisis but also, and foremost, in understanding "what is next".

Author : Suman Gupta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192863690

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Political Catchphrases and Contemporary History by Suman Gupta Pdf

This book offers an historical account of the period 2001-2020 by focusing on the shifting connotations of certain political catchphrases and words.

Author : Dennis Zagermann
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487552282

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Remaking European Political Economies by Dennis Zagermann Pdf

From 2009 to 2015, the euro area of the European Union (EU) experienced an existential socio-economic crisis. To secure its institutional integrity, the EU designed several new institutions to support member states in need but also to facilitate socio-economic adjustments. The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) lies at the centre of this strategy: it provides financial assistance to member states in severe crisis on an intergovernmental basis while demanding compliance with adjustment programs from program countries. Based on a comparative political economic analysis, Remaking European Political Economies shows that the EU’s financial assistance programs focused strongly on reforms that led to a partial convergence of program countries based on market-based economic governance and reduced governmental influence in the economy. The book draws on extensive, empirically based case studies of two prominent euro area countries in crisis: Greece and Ireland. Dennis Zagermann illustrates that socio-economic models in the euro area can experience institutional change if exposed to severe crises in combination with financial assistance programs that include policy conditionality. In doing so, his book sheds light on the central question of whether there is a possible convergence of European models of capitalism – a question that has been at the centre of comparative political economic debates for over thirty years.

Author : Vassilis K. Fouskas,Constantine Dimoulas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351047500

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Greece in the 21st Century by Vassilis K. Fouskas,Constantine Dimoulas Pdf

For most of the first part of the 21st century Greece has been seen as a critical battlefield for the survival of the powerful and the adjustment or extinction of the weak, as if all the historical contradictions of the global financial crisis and the eurozone crisis were concentrated in that tiny part of the world, with a population of just 11 million people and a GDP of less than 2% of that of the European Union as a whole. While the country has been overpowered by the disciplinarian and deeply authoritarian policy mix of ordoliberal/neoliberal rules, as this book attempts to show, there is hope. Defeat does not end the crisis, and crisis means constant opportunity. In this state of affairs, all types of agencies try to take advantage of the conditions and opportunities in order to advance towards positions of power and provide the best of solutions for the class interests they represent. Thus, harsh conflict is inevitable and if history provides a yardstick, it is that in periods of conflict and crisis, the winner, usually, is the one who manages to strike the right political and social alliances at the right time. The editors have assembled in this volume a number of interdisciplinary chapters and arguments which, despite their differences, share the strategic aim of a critique of both neoliberalism/ordoliberalism and new authoritarianism. Chapters examine the eurozone crisis from a variety of angles with reference to Greece, and Greek politics and society. With this collection of heterodox and scholarly essays, the authors and editors aim to offer a progressive understanding of current historical circumstances. Constantine Dimoulas is an Assistant Professor in social administration and evaluation of social programmes at Panteion University, Greece. Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of international politics and economics at the University of East London, UK, and the founding editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (Taylor & Francis).

Author : Shubhda Vaid
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9798887048475

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Guru, Gratitude and Grace by Shubhda Vaid Pdf

*When I focused on the spot, I could see sharp rays of light emanating from her Ajna chakra and entering mine. My eyes started burning, and my whole body went into a spin. I came to know later that this was Shaktipat and what had happened earlier was Jagran of Kundalini Shakti. *My initial meditational experiences were sometimes scary and sometimes amusing. There were times when I would growl like a lion or hiss like a cobra. Sometimes, my body would go into an uncontrollable spin, or I would keep shaking my head vigorously. I would be a lama fighting with another lama, or a Tantrik on a cremation ground making loud noises. Other people at the group meditation were getting disturbed and upset over my behavior. *In no way should this path be considered easy or inferior. In surrender your whole being, your wants and desires, your entire personality gets annihilated till a stage where you don't exist; it's only the Guru who exists. *Why would one ‘fall’ in love? Isn’t love supposed to uplift you? Is it such petty emotion that makes you fall? *The only thing the world needs is love. The only thing anyone needs is love – unconditional love and acceptance of ‘I Am’. No reason, no logic, no mind.

Author : Martin Gurri
Publisher : Stripe Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781953953346

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The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri Pdf

How insurgencies—enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere—have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world. In the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling, Martin Gurri saw it coming. Technology has categorically reversed the information balance of power between the public and the elites who manage the great hierarchical institutions of the industrial age: government, political parties, the media. The Revolt of the Public tells the story of how insurgencies, enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere, have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world. Originally published in 2014, The Revolt of the Public is now available in an updated edition, which includes an extensive analysis of Donald Trump’s improbable rise to the presidency and the electoral triumphs of Brexit. The book concludes with a speculative look forward, pondering whether the current elite class can bring about a reformation of the democratic process and whether new organizing principles, adapted to a digital world, can arise out of the present political turbulence.

Author : Malcolm D. Lambert
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300168266

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Christians and Pagans by Malcolm D. Lambert Pdf

"Christians and Pagans" offers a comprehensive and highly readable account of the coming of Christianity to Britain, its coexistence or conflict with paganism, and its impact on the lives of both indigenous islanders and invading Anglo-Saxons.The Christianity of Roman Britain, so often treated in isolation, is here deftly integrated with the history of the British churches of the Celtic world, and with the histories of Ireland, Iona, and Pictland. Combining chronicle and literary evidence with the fruits of the latest archaeological research, Malcolm Lambert illuminates how the conversion process changed the hearts and minds of early Britain.

Author : Michelle Cini,Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198862239

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European Union Politics by Michelle Cini,Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán Pdf

The seventh edition builds on the success of the previous six editions by retaining and updating the chapters published in the previous version of the book. Innovations in this edition included new chapters on the migration and refugee crisis and on the Covid-19 pandemic.

Author : Gary Backhaus,John Murungi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402087035

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Symbolic Landscapes by Gary Backhaus,John Murungi Pdf

Symbolic Landscapes presents a definitive collection of landscape/place studies that explores symbolic, cultural levels of geographical meanings. Essays written by philosophers, geographers, architects, social scientists, art historians, and literati, bring specific modes of expertise and perspectives to this transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary study of the symbolic level human existential spatiality. Placing emphasis on the pre-cognitive genesis of symbolic meaning, as well as embodied, experiential (lived) geography, the volume offers a fresh, quasi-phenomenological approach. The editors articulate the epistemological doctrine that perception and imagination form a continuum in which both are always implicated as complements. This approach makes a case for the interrelation of the geography of perception and the geography of imagination, which means that human/cultural geography offers only an abstraction if indeed an aesthetic geography is constituted merely as a sub-field. Human/cultural geography can only approach spatial reality through recognizing the intimate interrelative dialectic between the imaginative and perceptual meanings of our landscapes/place-worlds. This volume reinvigorates the importance of the topic of symbolism in human/cultural geography, landscape studies, philosophy of place, architecture and planning, and will stand among the classics in the field.

Author : Edwin Markham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : America
ISBN : NYPL:33433082295738

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The Real America in Romance by Edwin Markham Pdf

Author : Edwin Markham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : America
ISBN : UIUC:30112003262547

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The Real America in Romance ...: On savage shores: the age of consolidation, 1620-1643 by Edwin Markham Pdf

Author : Laura Wittman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442643390

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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body by Laura Wittman Pdf

I slutningen af 1. Verdenskrig indførte flere krigsførende lande et nyt hidtil ukendt ritual. Kroppen af en anonym soldat, død på slagmarken, blev begravet i "den ukendte soldats grav" for at symbolisere den fælles sorg over slagmarkens voldsomme traumer. Ved at undersøge hvordan forskellige lande ofte med vidt forskellig politisk og kulturel baggrund har anvendt "Den ukendte Soldat" symbolsk, hævder forfatteren, at der er skabt en ny måde at udtrykke fælles national sorg på.