Gruppentheorie

Baumgartner, Ludwig

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“…And once a bad thing is framed as a crisis this has real and far-reaching political and policy effects. 28 As such, the differential benchmarks for the construction of crisis lead to significant policy consequences and feedback effects that are themselves shaped by racialized and gendered norms and inequalities. These processes are evident in the discriminatory racial and gender norms that were codified in many New Deal labor and redistributive policies enacted in response to the crisis of the Great Depression.…”

Section: The Great Depression the New Deal And The Reinscription Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

Of Mancessions and Hecoveries: Race, Gender, and the Political Construction of Economic Crises and Recoveries

Strolovitch

2013

Perspect. polit.

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Through a discussion of the 2008 mortgage crisis and its similarities to the Great Depression of the 1930's and the Great Recession of 2007–09, I argue that the very notions of economic “crisis” and “recovery” are politically and ideologically constructed, and that conditions of vulnerability, often simply taken for granted as part of the normal social landscape when they affect marginalized populations, become regarded as crises when they affect dominant groups. Each of these crises, I argue, reveals different facets of the ways in which the power, normativity, and privilege of those perceived to be affected by economic hard times serve (1) to construct some economic troubles as “normal” and others as “crises;' (2) to prevent economic problems related to structural inequalities from being treated as crises by dominant political actors and institutions; and (3) to shape ideas about the ostensible solutions and ends to economic crises. By calling attention to these features of economic “crisis,” I aim to demonstrate the relevance of scholarship on race, class, gender, and intersectionality to the understanding of fundamental questions of contemporary political economy not often viewed from this perspective.

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Section: The Great Depression the New Deal And The Reinscription Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%