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Crisis and the Media: Narratives of crisis across cultural settings and media genres
Edited by Marianna Patrona
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 76] 2018
► pp. 17–32

Chapter 1
Rehearsing the crisis

This chapter considers the 2008 global financial crisis as an example of how crises are imagined and scripted as political projects before they are mediated as a social reality. It argues that the articulation of this reality was discursively constructed and selectively mediated and that it is impossible to think about how crises are imagined and debated without thinking about the discursive constraints that frame their construction.

Keywords: the 2018 global financial crisis, crisis talk, rehearsal, competing narratives, the unsaid
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Establishing a plausible narrative
  • Responding to the crisis
  • Rehearsing the sayable and the unsayable
  • References
Published online: 22 February 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.76.02col
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