[ecrea] The discourse of austerity: Critical analyses of business and economics across disciplines

Please see our second CFP below with an extended deadline and keynotes 
confirmed. This conference is free to attend and a registration link is 
available on the following webpage:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nubs/about/events/criticaldiscourse/callforpapers.htm



CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS


The discourse of austerity: Critical analyses of business and economics 
across disciplines

3rd – 4th September 2013, Newcastle University



Keynote speakers:



Professor Andrew Sayer – Lancaster University

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/profiles/andrew-sayer



Professor Norman Fairclough and Isabela Fairclough – Lancaster 
University and University of Central Lancashire

http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/norman-fairclough

http://www.uclan.ac.uk/staff_profiles/dr_isabela_fairclough.php



Professor Justin Lewis – Cardiff University

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/contactsandpeople/profiles/lewis-justin.html

https://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745650234



Conference convenors:

Dr Darren Kelsey, Lecturer in Journalism, Newcastle University

Professor Andrea Whittle, Professor of Management and Organization 
Studies, Newcastle University

Professor Frank Mueller, Professor of Strategy & International Business, 
Newcastle University

Dr Majid KhosraviNik, Lecturer in Mass Communication and Critical 
Discourse Analysis, Northumbria University



Associated research networks:

Newcastle-Northumbria Critical Discourse Group (NNCDG):

http://www.criticaldiscoursegroup.net/

Strategy, Organizations and Society (SOS) Forum: 
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nubs/staff/research/sos_forum.htm



Please submit abstracts (up to 300 words) by July 5th to: 
(Darren.kelsey /at/ ncl.ac.uk)


We also encourage PhD students to submit abstracts since the convenors 
are interested in research under development and the conference will 
feature an exclusive PhD panel.


This conference brings together scholars from a variety of academic 
backgrounds across the social sciences interested in the role of 
discourse in shaping business, management and economic issues, agendas 
and practices. Across a range of scholarly social scientific fields - 
from business management, organization studies, linguistics, 
communications, politics, media studies, journalism, history and 
sociology - lies significant common ground in the methodological and 
theoretical interests of critical approaches to discourse and other 
analyses of issues concerning business and economics. More specifically, 
contributions in this conference will explore research findings and/or 
theoretical contributions to current debates on discourse, business and 
economics – issues that are particularly important in the recent era of 
‘austerity’ following the global financial crisis.


The critical nature of these contributions will hold shared concerns 
with ideology; in the textual representations, discursive practices and 
social impact of business and economics in local, national and global 
contexts. Our key concern is how power, inequality and interests are 
brought into play through institutionalised language-practices and 
representations. This conference is, therefore, concerned with: the 
unquestioned, accepted and inevitable (naturalised) role of ideology; 
how ideology impacts upon the political and economic environment of 
society; and the significant role ideology plays within the context of 
austerity.


Organisers and participants of this conference will come from areas 
including, but not limited to, journalism, business, strategy, 
management, media and cultural studies, and linguistics. The shared 
interests of this conference will open the opportunity for 
inter-disciplinary thinking amongst economic and political contexts of 
austerity and subsequent developments within this field of research. 
Papers will be considered, but not limited to, research and discursive 
analysis in the following areas:


-          Media coverage of the credit crunch, financial crisis and 
recession

-          Government policy and economic strategy

-          Corporate discourse in economic and social contexts

-          Discourses of the City and banking sector

-          Journalism, political economy  and media ownership

-          Common crises, shared ethics: The future of business and/or 
journalism education

-          Language, discourse, and business/economics

-          Power and ideology during austerity

-          Public discourse and/or public opinion on economic policy

-          Discourses of the European Union, the Euro, and austerity

-          Business and taxation

-          Legal issues in global economics

-          Discourses of the free market, growth, globalisation and 
neo-liberalism

-          Counter-discourses of protest groups and social movements

-          International perspectives on austerity


Due to the academic diversity of this conference, we feel that social, 
economic and political research will benefit from our efforts to bridge 
the current distance between academic backgrounds that hold shared 
interests in critical discourse studies. The synergy encouraged through 
this conference demonstrates the importance and value of 
cross-disciplinary research. We expect this project to encourage and 
mobilise interdisciplinary research activity within and beyond Newcastle 
University in the future. The conference will also enable wider networks 
to be established through the Newcastle & Northumbria Critical Discourse 
Group (NNCDG), the research group co-convened by Newcastle University 
and Northumbria University. We intend to select the strongest 
contributions from this conference for publication.


Dr Darren Kelsey
Lecturer in Journalism
School of Arts and Cultures
Newcastle University
Room 2.85, Second Floor
Armstrong Building
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Tel: 0191 222 6474
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/staff/profile/darren.kelsey
http://www.criticaldiscoursegroup.net/


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