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Chapter 2. Reconceptualizing crisis

‘Doing crisis’ as a (recontextualized) social practice
  • Antoon De Rycker
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Crisis and the Media
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Abstract

As a major socially significant phenomenon, crisis has been variously understood as an event, a moment of history, a turning point, a problem, a set of challenges, a paradox and so on. Drawing on third-generation practice theory and a range of case studies, the present study explores the possibility of reconceptualizing crisis as a social practice, i.e. as ‘doing crisis’. In addition, it considers whether a social practice approach can inform the analysis of crisis-related media practices and discourses. It is argued that a crisis-as-practice perspective is possible and also directly relevant to media discourse analysis, and that it can offer new and fresh insights.

Abstract

As a major socially significant phenomenon, crisis has been variously understood as an event, a moment of history, a turning point, a problem, a set of challenges, a paradox and so on. Drawing on third-generation practice theory and a range of case studies, the present study explores the possibility of reconceptualizing crisis as a social practice, i.e. as ‘doing crisis’. In addition, it considers whether a social practice approach can inform the analysis of crisis-related media practices and discourses. It is argued that a crisis-as-practice perspective is possible and also directly relevant to media discourse analysis, and that it can offer new and fresh insights.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Contributors vii
  4. Crisis or the media? 1
  5. Part I. Crisis? What crisis? Theoretical perspectives
  6. Chapter 1. Rehearsing the crisis 17
  7. Chapter 2. Reconceptualizing crisis 33
  8. Part II. Constructions of crisis and responsibility in the print and broadcast media
  9. Chapter 3. Expressions of blame for the Global Financial Crisis in US, UK and Australian opinion texts 59
  10. Chapter 4. ‘We – will – go – bank – rupt’ 85
  11. Chapter 5. “All good people have debts” 107
  12. Chapter 6. The image of the empty hands 127
  13. Chapter 7. The visual construction of political crises 151
  14. Chapter 8. Impending crisis in Scotland 177
  15. Part III. Crisis constructions in the on-line and social media
  16. Chapter 9. Civic voice in multimodal news narratives 205
  17. Chapter 10. Gender in “crisis”, everyday sexism and the Twittersphere 231
  18. Epilogue 261
  19. Index 267
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.76.03der

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Contributors vii
  4. Crisis or the media? 1
  5. Part I. Crisis? What crisis? Theoretical perspectives
  6. Chapter 1. Rehearsing the crisis 17
  7. Chapter 2. Reconceptualizing crisis 33
  8. Part II. Constructions of crisis and responsibility in the print and broadcast media
  9. Chapter 3. Expressions of blame for the Global Financial Crisis in US, UK and Australian opinion texts 59
  10. Chapter 4. ‘We – will – go – bank – rupt’ 85
  11. Chapter 5. “All good people have debts” 107
  12. Chapter 6. The image of the empty hands 127
  13. Chapter 7. The visual construction of political crises 151
  14. Chapter 8. Impending crisis in Scotland 177
  15. Part III. Crisis constructions in the on-line and social media
  16. Chapter 9. Civic voice in multimodal news narratives 205
  17. Chapter 10. Gender in “crisis”, everyday sexism and the Twittersphere 231
  18. Epilogue 261
  19. Index 267
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