Lay actions in the face of crisis—Swedish citizens’ actions in response to the global financial crisis of 2008

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 796-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inga-Lill Söderberg ◽  
Misse Wester
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The Face ◽  
Financial Crisis Of 2008 ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

Introduction

Focaal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (78) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marguerite van den Berg ◽  
Bruce O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Free Time ◽  
Thematic Section ◽  
Advanced Capitalism ◽  
Financial Crisis Of 2008 ◽  
Postcolonial Africa ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Insight Into

Nearly a decade after the global financial crisis of 2008, this thematic section investigates one way in which marginalization and precarization appears: boredom. An increasingly competitive global economy has fundamentally changed the coordinates of work and class in ways that have led to a changing engagement with boredom. Long thought of as an affliction of prosperity, boredom has recently emerged as an ethnographically observed plight of the most economically vulnerable. Drawing on fieldwork from postsocialist Europe and postcolonial Africa, this thematic section explores the intersection of boredom and precarity in order to gain new insight into the workings of advanced capitalism. It experiments with ways of theorizing the changing relationship between status, production, consumption, and the experience of excess free time. These efforts are rooted in a desire to make sense of the precarious forms of living that proliferated in the aftermath of the global financial crisis and that continue to endure a decade later.

Belén Gopegui’s literature in crisis: Anticipating the literatura de la crisis?

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-25
Author(s):  
Maite Usoz de la Fuente
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Status ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Financial Crisis Of 2008 ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

In recent years, and in response to the global financial crisis of 2008, Spain has seen the surge of a new literary sub-genre, that of literatura de la crisis: novels, essays and short stories attempting to reflect and make sense of the crisis and its effects in the country. In this article, I propose that there is an alternative literature in crisis that, while at times overlapping with the aforementioned literatura de la crisis, also antedates it. Such literature shows a concern with socio-economic phenomena such as unemployment and job insecurity, precarity, the effects of globalization or the rise in inequality long before these issues became fashionable. In this article, I analyse four novels by Belén Gopegui that predate the crisis in order to trace the key features of her literature in crisis ‐ chief among them is her meta-literary exploration of her own assimilation of (or possible complicity with) the hegemonic discourses she seeks to critique. Finally, I contend that the vindication of this literature in crisis is timely and relevant not only because of its connection to the booming sub-genre of literatura de la crisis but also because it is only through the radical interrogation of the status quo carried out by this author that the full emancipatory potential of literature and culture may be realized.

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