Posts tagged ‘Discourse’

Analysing crisis discourses: theories and strategies

Talk given by Amelie Kutter at the 7th CADAAD conference
Since the financial crisis emerged in 2007, many projects and publications have been launched that discourse-analyse representations of crisis and crisis management in communications by various groups and organisations. This research has generated insights in recurrent features of crisis discourse, such as blame games, claims for extraordinary authority, or trends of normalisation. Crisis itself, however, is usually taken for granted and rarely subjected to theoretical consideration. The present paper suggests that theories of crisis that borrow from Marxist thought help to gain an understanding of crisis as a catalyst of social change and to conceptually focus analyses of crisis and its discursive construction.

European peripheries: transdisciplinary perspectives

International workshop organised by Amelie Kutter and the Reconfigurations project at the Viadrina Institute of European Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). The workshop investigates current trends of periphery-building in the European context. Contributions from political economy, sociology, political science, history, cultural and discourse studies provide conceptual orientation and empirical depth to peripheries as an emerging transdisciplinary research agenda.

Kutter, A. (2018) Corpus analysis: textstatistics as an explorative technique

The boost of digitisation, automated text processing and so-called Big Data have all enhanced the spread and popularity of computer-aided statistical analysis of large samples of digital texts: corpus analysis. This contribution gives an overview of corpus analysis so that entering the field and navigating field-specific controversies become easier.

Europäische Peripherien: die Perspektive einer diskursiven politischen Ökonomie

Talk given by Amelie Kutter at the research colloquium of the Institut of Political Science at the University of Tübingen, 2th Nov 2016.

Europäische Peripherien: Grenzziehung aus der Perspektive einer diskursiven politischen Ökonomie

Talk given by Amelie Kutter at the workshop ‘Komplexe Grenzen: Dimensionen, Dynamiken, Technologien’ organised by the group ‘Grenztheorien’ at the European University Viadrina, 3-4th November, 2016.

Ruth Wodak at Viadrina University

Ruth Wodak presented her new book ‘The politics of fear: what right-wing populist discourses mean’ in Amelie Kutter’s class ‘Forschungssalon Diskursanalyse’.

Crisis narratives: sustaining austerity policy in Southern Europe

Talk given by Amelie Kutter at the 10th ECPR General Conference, 7-10th Sept 2016, at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Research project: reconfigurations of centre and periphery in the European Union (2014-2019)

The project ‘Reconfigurations of centre and periphery in the European Union: a discursive political study’ investigates the transformation and re-definition of centre and periphery in the European Union (EU) in the aftermath of the financial crisis. It is funded by the European Commission and directed by Amelie Kutter at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).

Governmentality and expertise: imagining economy after crisis

Panel convened by Amelie Kutter and Jens Maesse (University of Giessen) at the 11th Interpretive Policy Analysis conference, 5-7th July, University of Hull, UK Abstract: Policy…

The governmentality of the EU’s new financial architecture

Talk given by Amelie Kutter at the 11th Interpretive Policy Analysis conference, 5-7th July, 2016, University of Hull, UK