Confronting Spain’s crises: from the language of the plazas to the rise of Podemos

Doing economics otherwise, from one crisis to the next

“…These everyday decisions are based on evolving and contradictory representations of the novel coronavirus as just like the flu, or as a hoax, or as the deadliest pandemic in 100 years. Perhaps the largest category of work published in JCE on the financial crisis was analyses of the representations and rhetoric of/about the crisis (Cameron et al 2011, Erturk et al 2011, Marsh 2011, Glynos et al 2012, Samman 2012, King 2016, La Berge 2016, Benke 2018, Forelle 2018, Carretero Miramar and Bradd 2019. These articles examined the way that language, mediated communication, and artistic renderings of the crisis impacted the way financial markets were understood and responses to the crisis were constrained.…”