[ecrea] Call for Participation: Disentangling Crisis Discourse

Disentangling Crisis Discourse – 2nd call for participation
June 24, 2012

2nd call for participation:

Disentangling Crisis Discourse

Workshop on Crisis Discourse Analysis

http://crisisdiscourse.wordpress.com/



 Wednesday 11th July, 2012, 10:30-17:00

Lancaster University

Organised by Amelie Kutter (Sociology) and Johnny Unger (LAEL)

Sponsored by Sociology and LAEL



 “When Osborne launched his scorched earth policies two years ago, it 
was obvious to all but the most purblind that the recovery he blithely 
forecast could not happen,” writes Will Hutton in The Observer [Sunday 
29 April 2012]. Was it all that obvious? Why then, could these policies 
unfold? The aim of the workshop “Disentangling Crisis Discourse” is to 
further understanding of how the financial crisis and its consequences 
are being communicated and constructed in public, political and everyday 
discourse. We seek to uncover which concepts and tools in discourse 
analysis can help us to cut through the jargon-laden buzz around crisis 
discourse. How can we apply systematic and rigorous analysis to 
problematise what commentators, journalists, bloggers and even academics 
take for granted as fact and figure, necessity and truth, in UK and 
elsewhere?

During the workshop, participants will discuss short pieces of their own 
analysis of crisis discourse. In form of short commentaries, these 
pieces may later be published on the “Crisis Discourse Watch” blog, a 
new site for ad-hoc analysis, commentary and discussion of crisis 
discourse, see http://crisisdiscourse.wordpress.com.

The workshop will start with a roundtable discussion involving Jason 
Glynos (University of Essex), Andrew Sayer (Lancaster University), and 
Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University). They will show how the analysis of 
crisis discourse can be approached from their particular perspectives of 
the Logics Approach (Jason Glynos), Moral Economy (Andrew Sayer), and 
the Discourse Historical Approach (Ruth Wodak).

To participate, please send the following to (a.kutter /at/ lancaster.ac.uk) 
and (j.unger /at/ lancaster.ac.ukby) 30th June.

   1. Your name and e-mail address
   2. Your current or past department (and institution if not 
Lancaster) and status (e.g. staff, MA/PhD student, independent scholar)

   1. A brief abstract (max. 150 words) outlining your chosen approach 
to crisis discourse (approach, method, unit or phenomenon analysed), and 
one piece of data (text, image, video, etc.) that you wish to analyse 
and discuss during the workshop.

The number of participants is unfortunately limited, and we will 
allocate places by order of submission of abstracts/data. Abstracts and 
data will be sent to the participants after 30th June to enable them to 
see and reflect on them in advance of the workshop. For updates 
seehttp://crisisdiscourse.wordpress.com/



Participation is free. Tea/coffee will be provided during the workshop


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