scholarly journals Crisis and Dystopia in the Current Spanish Novel Un incendio invisible, by Sara Mesa and Por si se va la Luz, by Lara Moreno

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria Julieta Zarco
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Spanish Literature ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Possible World ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Spanish Novel ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Financial Crisis Of 2008 ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis

Europe in general and Spain in particular are still experiencing the consequences of the 2008 financial crisis. Spanish cultural narratives have imagined other possible scenarios around a financial crisis that has not only been an economic one, but also a social one. In that context, Spanish literature was used not only as a means to elaborate coherent narratives in times of crisis but also as a space to create other possible worlds. The novels Un incendio invisible (2011), by Sara Mesa, and Por si se ve la Luz (2013), by Lara Moreno, are both set in imaginary places in which their protagonists – sometimes driven by desire and other times by necessity – survive in hostile, abandoned and primitive places. The article attempts to analyse the dominance of the construction of dystopian places and the creation of ‘another possible world’ as a consequence of the financial crisis of 2008.

scholarly journals CSR, LOCAL EMBEDDEDNESS AND THE PERFORMANCE OF MNCs IN BRAZIL DURING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Henrique Correa da Cunha ◽  
Iara Regina Dos Santos Parisotto ◽  
Andreia Carpes Dani ◽  
Vilmar Siewert
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Local Embeddedness ◽  
Financial Crisis Of 2008 ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
And Performance

Although the effects of the financial crisis of 2008 affected companies in several industries, not all organizations were affected in the same manner. When evaluating the implications of the 2008 financial crisis for the performance of multinational subsidiaries operating in Brazil during this period it is clear that some companies were better able to overcome the challenges imposed by the crisis. One explanation for that could be related to strategies adopted by these organizations that increase local embeddedness which in turn creates a reciprocal commitment between the company and the network in a sense that it provides a mutual support during challenging moments. In that sense, in order to relate to different stakeholders needs in foreign markets, the subsidiaries of multinational companies adopt CSR and governance practices. In order to verify the implications of CSR practices to the performance of multinational subsidiaries in Brazil during the financial crisis of 2008, the present study utilizes a panel data with 110 subsidiaries of multinational companies active in Brazil during 2008, 2009 and 2010. We perform a Pairwise Granger Causality test to confirm the causal relationship between CSR practices and performance. The results indicate that regardless of the size, there is a positive relationship between CSR and the performance of these organizations during the financial crisis of 2008.

Megaloprepeia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Harris
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modeling ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Mathematical Finance ◽  
Unintended Consequence ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Secondary Purpose ◽  
External Goods ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis

The explosion of finance mathematics, and its implication in the 2008 financial crisis, has had the welcome, but unintended, consequence of establishing a common border between mathematics and morality. This chapter does not aim to assign responsibility for the 2008 crash and certainly not to imply that mathematics professors are specifically to blame. Nor does this chapter aim to change anyone's mind about fundamental questions of economic policy. Its primary purpose is to explain some of the context for a debate that is actually taking place, within and around mathematics, in connection with the growth of mathematical finance. The tensions between the internal and external goods involved in the creation of mathematics are well illustrated by this debate. The secondary purpose of this chapter is to provide a very brief introduction to the mathematical modeling of reality.

Hauntologizing the (un)foreseen present: The 2008 financial crisis in Antonio Muñoz Molina’s La noche de los tiempos and Todo lo que era sólido

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 324-335
Author(s):  
David Amezcua
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis

This article deals with Antonio Muñoz Molina’s La noche de los tiempos (2009) and Todo lo que era sólido (2013a) and provides an interdiscursive analysis of both works, aiming to highlight their thematic and affective connections. Similarly, I contend that these works belong in the fabric of cultural narratives around the 2008 financial crisis. On the other hand, the spectral nature of the narrators of both La noche de los tiempos and Todo lo que era sólido is scrutinized, departing from Derrida’s notion of hauntology. Finally, the role of metaphors in the construction of reality is examined, paying heed to Muñoz Molina’s lucid analysis of the dominant metaphors that were used during the years prior to the 2008 financial crisis. His analysis leads us to consider the necessity of creating a new narrative for Europe which helps shape and redefine a new sense of Europeanness.

Mathematics without Apologies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Harris
Keyword(s):  
Number Theory ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
First Century ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Dinner Party ◽  
Mathematical Life ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Guided Tour

What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers, this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of scholarly, journalistic, and pop culture sources. Drawing on the author's personal experiences as well as the thoughts and opinions of mathematicians from Archimedes and Omar Khayyám to such contemporary giants as Alexander Grothendieck and Robert Langlands, the book reveals the charisma and romance of mathematics as well as its darker side. In this portrait of mathematics as a community united around a set of common intellectual, ethical, and existential challenges, the book touches on a wide variety of questions, such as: Are mathematicians to blame for the 2008 financial crisis? How can we talk about the ideas we were born too soon to understand? And how should you react if you are asked to explain number theory at a dinner party? The book takes readers on an unapologetic guided tour of the mathematical life, from the philosophy and sociology of mathematics to its reflections in film and popular music, with detours through the mathematical and mystical traditions of Russia, India, medieval Islam, the Bronx, and beyond.

Credit Spreads and Regime Shifts: Evidence from the 2008 Financial Crisis

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivelina Pavlova ◽  
Ann Marie Hibbert ◽  
Joel R. Barber ◽  
Krishnan Dandapani
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Regime Shifts ◽  
Credit Spreads ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis
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