CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Hoeckner, Ines Barbara |
|---|---|
| Title | ECONOMIC CRISIS AND THE PERSISTENCE OF IDEAS: "TINA", DISCURSIVE STRUGGLES IN EUROPE AND THE ROLE OF MEDIA |
| Summary | Similar to the disruptive effects of an earthquake, political shocks such as wars or economic crises are often linked to change in the international system and the overthrow of dominant ideologies. The global financial and economic crisis that started in 2007 in the market for derivatives of US subprime mortgages as a subprime crisis and turned into a full-scale financial crisis in 2008 is arguably such an earthquake-like event. It unraveled with one bang and in unprecedented clarity the fundamental weaknesses and deep flaws of the politico-economic system and its underlying neoliberal ideology. Thus, it becomes pertinent to ask why there has been no real change. How could the old orthodoxy reconstitute itself? As Robert Cox aptly put it: what needs to be explained is the relative stability of certain world orders. The aim of this research is, therefore to analyze hegemonic narratives of the crisis and discursive strategies deployed in order to gain a better understanding of how alternative ideas got excluded and the former economic orthodoxy reestablished. To this end, I will look at the crisis discourses in two European countries, namely Germany and Spain, representing Europe´s “core” and “net-creditor” and “periphery” and “net-debtor” respectively. In order to deepen the “assessment of discursive hegemony” the thesis analyzes the discursive framings of the crisis in the media. |
| Supervisor | Michael Merlingen |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/hoeckner_ines.pdf |
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