A multidisciplinary work which analyzes how certain discourses of power seek to produce the acceptability of austerity policies. Read More
Austerity speeches are always as obvious speeches: "there is no choice". They adapt to socio-historical situations to produce the acceptability of austerity measures. How meaningful effects do these speeches have? How do counter-narratives resist them? Different disciplinary approaches (discourse analysis, political sciences, social sciences, semantics, sociolinguistics, sociology of language, economic theory) attempt to answer these questions by analyzing a variety of institutions and speakers (governors, political personnel, labor ministries and education, European Commission, agribusiness, media, management, opponents, intellectuals, etc.) in several countries and entities (Belgium, Brazil, Chile, France, Italy, Spain, European Union). The diversity of these objects and these approaches offers keys to better understand the complexity of a world governed by economics.