Die Krise als Krankheit

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Peter ◽  
Oliver Lubrich
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
The Body ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Financial Crisis Of 2008 ◽  
Illness Metaphors

AbstractThe article examines the conceptual metaphor of illness in representations of financial crises. Understanding the economy in terms of the body is one of the dominant concepts in contemporary media coverage on economic events. Accordingly, images of illness proliferate in the discourse on the financial crisis of 2008/2009. This paper presents a quantitative analysis of illness metaphors in 53 articles on the financial crisis published from August 2008 to September 2009 in the German weekly magazine

How Financial Crises Affect FDI and Related Macroeconomic Variables

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
Rukiye Ceyda Üvez ◽  
Asli Aybars
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Financial Globalization ◽  
Macroeconomic Variables ◽  
Financial Crisis Of 2008 ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Macroeconomic Stability

The new literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization has increased in recent years because of the massive negative effects of the global financial crisis of 2008. While evidence based on microeconomic data shows some benefit of financial integration and the distortionary effects of capital controls, the macroeconomic evidence generally remains inconclusive. Also, some papers argue that financial globalization enhances macroeconomic stability especially in emerging economies, but others argue the opposite. The authors try to argue the effects of financial globalization and global financial crises on macroeconomic stability. This paper probes the effect of the financial crises since 2000 on specific Mediterranean economies including Greece and Turkey, comparatively. The main question to be answered in this paper is how selected macroeconomic variables affected the financial crises in these economies. Another question to be addressed is how macroeconomic variables have been affected by the last global financial crisis of 2008. Moreover, the research is focused on FDI (foreign direct investment) in these selected economies and examines the relationship between the macroeconomic variables and the financial crises. The relationship between relative macroeconomic variables, FDI and financial crises is determined using annual data from 2000 to 2010. The relationships between the indicators are analyzed using AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structures), a structural equation modeling (SEM) software where the model is presented in an intuitive path diagram to show hypothesized relationships among variables easier than just using standard multivariate statistics or multiple regression models alone.

When bank stocks are hobbled by worries: A metaphor study of emotions in the financial news reports

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Ho
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Financial News ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

AbstractThis study is a corpus-based examination of metaphors in the media coverage of the global financial crisis of 2008. Based on conceptual metaphor theory, it discusses how and why metaphors of

The Powers of Testosterone: Obscuring Race and Regional Bias in the Regulation of Women Athletes

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-2019) ◽  
pp. 83-120
Author(s):  
Katrina Karkazis ◽  
Rebecca M. Jordan-Young
Keyword(s):  
Women Athletes ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The Body ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Cultural Symbol ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Fair Competition

Using strategies from critical race studies and feminist studies of science, medicine, and the body, we examine the covert operation of race and region in a regulation restricting the natural levels of testosterone in women athletes. Sport organizations claim the rule promotes fair competition and benefits the health of women athletes. Intersectional and postcolonial analyses have shown that "gender challenges" of specific women athletes engage racialized judgments about sex atypicality that emerged in the context of Western colonialism and are at the heart of Western modernity. Here, we introduce the concept of "T talk" to refer to the web of direct claims and indirect associations that circulate around testosterone as a material substance and a multivalent cultural symbol. In the case we discuss, T talk naturalizes the idea of sport as a masculine domain while deflecting attention from the racial politics of intrasex competition. Using regulation documents, scientific publications, media coverage, in-depth interviews, and sport officials’ public presentations, we show how this supposedly neutral and scientific regulation targets women of color from the Global South. Contrary to claims that the rule is beneficent, both racialization and medically-authorized harms are inherent to the regulation.

Just Like Leaves in the Wind? Exploring the Effect of the Interplay of Media Coverage and Personal Characteristics on Issue Salience

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agatha Kratz ◽  
Harald Schoen
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Issue Salience ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explores the effect of the interplay of personal characteristics and news coverage on issue salience during the 2009 to 2015 period and during the election campaign in 2013. We selected four topics that played a considerable role during this period: the labor market, pensions and healthcare, immigration, and the financial crisis. The evidence from pooled cross-sectional data and panel data supports the notion that news coverage affects citizens’ issue salience. For obtrusive issues, news coverage does not play as large a role as for rather remote topics like the financial crisis and immigration. The results also lend credence to the idea that political predilections and other individual differences are related to issue salience and constrain the impact of news coverage on voters’ issue salience. However, the evidence for the interplay of individual differences and media coverage proved mild at best.

A Discussion of Aida H. Hozic and Jacqui True’s Scandalous Economics: Gender and the Politics of Financial Crises

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 503-504
Author(s):  
Dara Z. Strolovitch
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
Macroeconomic Models ◽  
Gender And Race ◽  
Back Cover ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

“Critical analyses of the global financial crisis of 2008 (GFC) have neglected the ways in which structural inequalities around gender and race factor into (and indeed make possible) the current economic order. Scandalous Economics breaks new ground by arguing that an explicitly gendered approach to the GFC and its ongoing effects can help us to understand both the root causes of the crisis and the failure to significantly reform financial institutions and macroeconomic models.” These words, from the blurb on the back cover of Scandalous Economics, nicely summarize the book’s topic and the general approach to it. Because the book contains contributions from a number of the top political scientists writing about the gendering of political economy, and because this topic is such an important one, we have invited a range of political scientists to comment on the book and on the broader theme of the gendering of political economy.

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