Narrating The Crisis

Author : Miriam Meissner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319454115

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Narrating the Global Financial Crisis by Miriam Meissner Pdf

This book analyzes how the Global Financial Crisis is portrayed in contemporary popular culture, using examples from film, literature and photography. In particular, the book explores why particular urban spaces, infrastructures and aesthetics – such as skyline shots in the opening credits of financial crisis films – recur in contemporary crisis narratives. Why are cities and finance connected in the cultural imaginary? Which ideologies do urban crisis imaginaries communicate? How do these imaginaries relate to the notion of crisis? To consider these questions, the book reads crisis narratives through the lens of myth. It combines perspectives from cultural, media and communication studies, anthropology, philosophy, geography and political economy to argue that the concept of myth can offer new and nuanced insights into the structure and politics of popular financial crisis imaginaries. In so doing, the book also asks if, how and under what conditions urban crisis imaginaries open up or foreclose systematic and political understandings of the Global Financial Crisis as a symptom of the broader process of financialization.

Author : Martin Dege,Irene Strasser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780197751756

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Narrative in Crisis by Martin Dege,Irene Strasser Pdf

"Crises radically alter lives. The Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences on our daily lives have questioned traditional modes of practice (Castigloni & Gaj, 2020). This is true for many clinicians and practitioners but also for the academic context and the discipline of Psychology. While many of us are still recovering from the collective longings for a 'back to how things were before the pandemic,' we have also realized that circumstances keep changing in unpredictable ways"--

Author : Keyan G. Tomaselli,Ruth Teer-Tomaselli,Johan Muller
Publisher : Iacademic Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111966821

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Narrating the Crisis by Keyan G. Tomaselli,Ruth Teer-Tomaselli,Johan Muller Pdf

Author : Byung-Chul Han
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509560448

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The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han Pdf

Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling becomes storyselling and narratives lose their binding force. Whereas narratives create community, storytelling brings forth only a fleeting community – the community of consumers. No amount of storytelling could recreate the fire around which humans gather to tell each other stories. That fire has long since burnt out. It has been replaced by the digital screen, which separates people rather than bringing them together. Through storytelling, capitalism appropriates narrative: stories sell. They are no longer a medium of shared experience. The inflation of storytelling betrays a need to cope with contingency, but storytelling is unable to transform the information society back into a stable narrative community. Rather, storytelling as storyselling is a pathological phenomenon of our age. Byung-Chul Han, one of the most perceptive cultural theorists of contemporary society, dissects this crisis with exceptional insight and flair.

Author : Matthew Seeger,Timothy L. Sellnow
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804799522

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Narratives of Crisis by Matthew Seeger,Timothy L. Sellnow Pdf

How did you first hear about 9/11? What images come to mind when you think of Hurricane Katrina? How did your community react to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting? You likely have your own stories about these tragic events. Yet, as a society, we rarely stop to appreciate the narratives that follow a crisis and their tremendous impact. This book examines the fundamental role that narratives play in catastrophic events. A crisis creates a communication vacuum, which is then populated by the stories of those who were directly affected, as well as crisis managers, journalists, and onlookers. These stories become fundamental to how we understand a disaster, determine what should be done about it, and carry forward our lessons learned. Matthew W. Seeger and Timothy L. Sellnow outline a typology of crisis narratives: accounts of blame, stories of renewal, victim narratives, heroic tales, and memorials. Using cases to illustrate each type, they show how competing accounts battle for dominance in the public sphere, advancing specific organizational, social, and political changes. Narratives of Crisis improves our understanding of how consensus forms in the aftermath of a disaster, providing a new lens for comprehending events in our past and shaping what comes from those in our future.

Author : Martin Kuester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Canadian literature
ISBN : 3896398490

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Narratives of Crisis - Crisis of Narrative by Martin Kuester Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004439559

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Crisis’ Representations: Frontiers and Identities in the Contemporary Media Narratives by Anonim Pdf

A sociological research on the current “narrations” of the crisis reflected by media and the relation between political discourses and popular myths, consists a revealing study of the dominant social representations worldwide. The real inequalities are counterbalanced by cultural industries’ “fairytales”.

Author : Marco Caracciolo
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813945842

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Narrating the Mesh by Marco Caracciolo Pdf

A hierarchical model of human societies’ relations with the natural world is at the root of today’s climate crisis; Narrating the Mesh contends that narrative form is instrumental in countering this ideology. Drawing inspiration from Timothy Morton’s concept of the "mesh" as a metaphor for the human-nonhuman relationship in the face of climate change, Marco Caracciolo investigates how narratives in genres such as the novel and the short story employ formal devices to effectively channel the entanglement of human communities and nonhuman phenomena. How can narrative undermine linearity in order to reject notions of unlimited technological progress and economic growth? What does it mean to say that nonhuman materials and processes—from contaminated landscapes to natural evolution—can become characters in stories? And, conversely, how can narrative trace the rising awareness of climate change in the thick of human characters’ mental activities? These are some of the questions Narrating the Mesh addresses by engaging with contemporary works by Ted Chiang, Emily St. John Mandel, Richard Powers, Jeff VanderMeer, Jeanette Winterson, and many others. Entering interdisciplinary debates on narrative and the Anthropocene, this book explores how stories can bridge the gap between scientific models of the climate and the human-scale world of everyday experience, powerfully illustrating the complexity of the ecological crisis at multiple levels.

Author : Christine Elizabeth Kiesinger,Lori West Peterson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498584111

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Narrating Midlife by Christine Elizabeth Kiesinger,Lori West Peterson Pdf

Narrating Midlife: Crisis, Transition, and Transformation is rooted in a discussion about why it is important to address the midlife years in ways that challenge and interrogate the myths that surround this phase of life. Although readers are free to construct their own meaning after reading each narrative, they are encouraged to attend to the ways in which each narrative reveals how the author grapples with their particular issues communicatively. More important, readers are invited to see the power of narrative re-framing as authors seek to understand, interpret and “live” midlife change(s) in ways that are empowering and life affirming. In this book, contributors spin compelling and meaningful narratives about change at midlife. The empty nest, the surprise discovery of cancer, re-defining one's life at midlife and re-imagining long term commitment after divorce are just some of the topics explored in this book. Auto-ethnographically crafted, the narratives presented throughout the book aim to show how managing and living through change at midlife is very much a communicative endeavor.

Author : Sebastian Maslow,Christian Wirth
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438486109

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Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State by Sebastian Maslow,Christian Wirth Pdf

Mired in national crises since the early 1990s, Japan has had to respond to a rapid population decline; the Asian and global financial crises; the 2011 triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and the Fukushima nuclear meltdown; the COVID-19 pandemic; China’s economic rise; threats from North Korea; and massive public debt. In Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State, established specialists in a variety of areas use a coherent set of methodologies, aligning their sociological, public policy, and political science and international relations perspectives, to account for discrepancies between official rhetoric and policy practice and actual perceptions of decline and crisis in contemporary Japan. Each chapter focuses on a distinct policy field to gauge the effectiveness and the implications of political responses through an analysis of how crises are narrated and used to justify policy interventions. Transcending boundaries between issue areas and domestic and international politics, these essays paint a dynamic picture of the contested but changing nature of social, economic, and, ultimately political institutions as they constitute the transforming Japanese state.

Author : Christophe Declercq,Federico M. Federici
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350097063

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Intercultural Crisis Communication by Christophe Declercq,Federico M. Federici Pdf

Intercultural Crisis Communication poses pertinent questions and provides powerful responses to crises that have characterised the modern world since 2010. Language mediation in situations of disaster, emergency and conflict is an under-developed area of scholarship in Translation Studies. This book responds to a clear need for research drawn from practical experiences in the field and explores the crucial role of translation, interpretation and mediation in contexts of crises. Particular consideration is given to situations where rare or minority languages represent a substantial obstacle to humanitarian operations. Contemporary case studies from the USA, Africa, Europe, and Armenia provide major examples of crisis communication that call for more efficient language mediation. Such examples include Syrian displacement, the refugee crisis in Croatia and Italy, international terrorism and national public administration, interpreting in conflict and for Médecins sans Frontières, as well as the integration of refugee doctors for employment in the UK. With contributions from experts in the field, this volume is of international relevance and provides a multifaceted overview of intercultural communication issues and remedies during crises.

Author : Sonya Marie Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000457803

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Languages of Economic Crises by Sonya Marie Scott Pdf

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.

Author : Stefan Berger,Linas Eriksonas,Andrew Mycock
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845458652

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Narrating the Nation by Stefan Berger,Linas Eriksonas,Andrew Mycock Pdf

A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization. However, as demonstrated in this volume, histories have not, of course, only been written by professional historians. Drawing on studies from a number of different European nation states, the contributors to this volume present a systematic exploration, of the representation of the national paradigm. In doing so, they contextualize the European experience in a more global framework by providing comparative perspectives on the national histories in the Far East and North America. As such, they expose the complex variables and diverse actors that lie behind the narration of a nation.

Author : Jack Holland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136207549

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Selling the War on Terror by Jack Holland Pdf

This book uses a comparative analysis to examine foreign policy discourses and the dynamics of the ‘War on Terror'. The book considers the three principal members of the Coalition of the Willing in Afghanistan and Iraq: the United States, Britain and Australia. Despite significant cultural, historical and political overlap, the War on Terror was nevertheless rendered possible in these contexts in distinct ways, drawing on different discourses and narratives of foreign policy and identity. This volume explores these differences and their origins, arguing that they have important implications for the way we understand foreign policy and political possibility. The author rejects prevalent interpretations of a War on Terror foreign policy discourse, in the singular, highlighting that coalition states both demonstrated and relied upon divergent policy framings to make the War on Terror possible. The book thus contributes to our understanding of political possibility, in the process correcting a tendency to view the War on Terror as a universal and monolithic political discourse. This book will be of much interest to students of foreign policy, critical security studies, terrorism studies, discourse analysis, and IR in general.

Author : Daniel Fischer,Sonja Fücker,Hanna Selm,Anna Sundermann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000800876

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Narrating Sustainability through Storytelling by Daniel Fischer,Sonja Fücker,Hanna Selm,Anna Sundermann Pdf

Stories and narratives are powerful tools for explaining the world around us. This book explores storytelling as a way of engaging audiences with sustainable development issues and reflects on the opportunities and limitations of storytelling for sustainability as an innovative approach to sustainability communication. Bringing together voices and perspectives from research and practice, this volume explores the ways in which storytelling can support change toward sustainability. Unlike other anthologies, the book first provides a sound scientific basis by unfolding the storytelling approach and presenting empirical studies on its impact on effects. It clarifies important terms and presents recent findings on the impact of storytelling on sustainability from an extensive 3-year research project on this question. The second part shows how storytelling can be used in different fields of practice to communicate sustainability in more engaging and effective ways. Here, the main focus is on not only case-based accounts of positive change, but also tensions, arising from the application of storytelling for sustainability in journalism, higher education, corporate communication, or science communication. Combining theory with practical examples, this innovative book will be a great resource for students and scholars of environmental communication and sustainable development, as well as professionals working in related fields.