GLOBALIZATION AND EUROPEANIZATION IN CRISIS ACCOUNTS: A CULTURAL POLITICAL ECONOMY PERSPECTIVE ON THE ITALIAN CASE
--- Draft version, please do not quote without the permission of the author---The present contribution is concerned with the crisis accounts of Italy's head of state Giorgio Napolitano and of the prime ministers Romano Prodi, Silvio Berlusconi and Mario Monti in the context of the North Atlanti...
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| Summary: | --- Draft version, please do not quote without the permission of the author---The present contribution is concerned with the crisis accounts of Italy's head of state Giorgio Napolitano and of the prime ministers Romano Prodi, Silvio Berlusconi and Mario Monti in the context of the North Atlantic Financial Crisis and of its following stages. Two main research questions lead the analysis: How did these two categories of actors contribute to represent and interpret the crisis in the Italian context? Which role did the recourse to concepts related to globalization and Europeanization play in their crisis accounts? The study draws on the theoretical framework of cultural political economy, which is adopted for the first time to investigate the Italian case, and on the methodological toolbox of corpus linguistics. Building on a periodi-zation of the crisis in Italy from January 2008 to July 2012, the analysis develops along two research lines. The first line of investigation shows topics of continuity and divergence in the crisis accounts of the observed actors by focusing on concordance, collocation and cluster analysis. Main findings concern Napolitano's insi-stence on the topicality of the crisis and a progressive fading out of the focus on the opportunities offered by the crisis itself; Berlusconi's emphasis on comparisons and on his government's achievements in reaction to the crisis; as well Monti's tendency to motivate impending public efforts and anti-crisis measures in the con- |
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