Narrating the Global Financial Crisis : Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth
- Submitting institution
-
The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
- Output identifier
- 283188500
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
-
10.1007/978-3-319-45411-5
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783319454108
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
0
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Narrating the Global Financial Crisis: Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth is based on research over five years on portrayals of the 2008 financial crisis in popular film, literature and journalistic photography. An interdisciplinary method of cultural analysis examines the social function and political implications of urban imaginaries in financial crisis narratives, bringing together concepts and insights from cultural, media and communication studies, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, geography and political economy. Media analyzed is mainly European and North American, including 24 films, 11 novels numerous photographs and photo series, all published/released in the period between 2008 and 2017.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- -
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -