Kutter, A. and Jessop, B. (2014) Culture as discursive practice: combining cultural political economy and discursive political studies in investigations of the financial crisis, in: Jessop,…
The Eurozone crisis and its management called into question the EU’s decision-making capacity and cast doubt on its responsiveness and accountability towards various groups’ and members’ demands. It also ruined the prospects for catch-up that poorer members of the European Union linked to membership and severely damaged the EU’s rationale of cohesion. The project investigates discursive struggles over the adequate management of the Eurozone crisis with regard to how they address the project of developmental catch-up and, thereby, redefine the centre and periphery. It is directed by Amelie Kutter at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).
This trans-disciplinary research project focuses on the complex and multi-faceted economic crisis that became evident in 2007 and explores it through to 2011. Different literatures and methodologies are used: corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis; actor-centred institutional analysis of varieties of capitalism and their place in the world market; studies of governance and governmentality; and studies on the EU’s open method of coordination as sources of insight into global crisis-management. Amelie Kutter is co-investigator on this project, which is directed by Bob Jessop at Lancaster University.
Conference organised by Amelie Kutter at Lancaster University, 1-2 Nov 2012, in the frames of the project ‘A Cultural Political Economy of Crisis Management’ directed by…
Trappmann, V. and Kutter, A. (2005) Die EU und der Strukturwandel in Polen. Die Transformation der polnischen Stahlindustrie unter dem Einfluss des EU-Beitritts [The transformation of…