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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The discourse of austerity: Critical analyses of business and economics across disciplines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">3rd – 4th September 2013, Newcastle University
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Please submit abstracts by June 21st to: <a href="mailto:Darren.kelsey@ncl.ac.uk">
Darren.kelsey@ncl.ac.uk</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Conference convenors:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr Darren Kelsey, Lecturer in Journalism, Newcastle University
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Professor Andrea Whittle, Professor of Management and Organization Studies, Newcastle University
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Professor Frank Mueller, Professor of Strategy & International Business, Newcastle University
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr Majid KhosraviNik, Lecturer in Mass Communication and Critical Discourse Analysis, Northumbria University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Associated research networks:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Newcastle-Northumbria Critical Discourse Group (NNCDG):
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.criticaldiscoursegroup.net/">http://www.criticaldiscoursegroup.net/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Strategy, Organizations and Society (SOS) Forum:
<a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nubs/staff/research/sos_forum.htm">http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nubs/staff/research/sos_forum.htm</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This conference brings together scholars from a variety of academic backgrounds across the social sciences interested in the role of discourse in shaping business, management and economic issues, agendas and practices.
Across a range of scholarly social scientific fields - from business management, organization studies, linguistics, communications, politics, media studies, journalism, history and sociology - lies significant common ground in the methodological and theoretical
interests of critical approaches to discourse and other analyses of issues concerning business and economics. More specifically, contributions in this conference will explore research findings and/or theoretical contributions to current debates on discourse,
business and economics – issues that are particularly important in the recent era of ‘austerity’ following the global financial crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The critical nature of these contributions will hold shared concerns with ideology; in the textual representations, discursive practices and social impact of business and economics in local, national and global contexts.
Our key concern is how power, inequality and interests are brought into play through institutionalised language-practices and representations. This conference is, therefore, concerned with: the unquestioned, accepted and inevitable (naturalised) role of ideology;
how ideology impacts upon the political and economic environment of society; and the significant role ideology plays within the context of austerity.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Organisers and participants of this conference will come from areas including, but not limited to, journalism, business, strategy, management, media and cultural studies, and linguistics. The shared interests of this
conference will open the opportunity for inter-disciplinary thinking amongst economic and political contexts of austerity and subsequent developments within this field of research. Papers will be considered, but not limited to, research and discursive analysis
in the following areas: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">- Media coverage of the credit crunch, financial crisis and recession
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">- Government policy and economic strategy
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">- Corporate discourse in economic and social contexts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">- Discourses of the City and banking sector<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">- Journalism, political economy and media ownership
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">- Common crises, shared ethics: The future of business and/or journalism education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">- Language, discourse, and business/economics
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">- Power and ideology during austerity
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">- Public discourse and/or public opinion on economic policy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">- Discourses of the European Union, the Euro, and austerity
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">- Business and taxation <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">- Legal issues in global economics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">- Discourses of the free market, growth, globalisation and neo-liberalism<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">- Counter-discourses of protest groups and social movements<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">- International perspectives on austerity
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Due to the academic diversity of this conference, we feel that social, economic and political research will benefit from our efforts to bridge the current distance between academic backgrounds that hold shared interests
in critical discourse studies. The synergy encouraged through this conference demonstrates the importance and value of cross-disciplinary research. We expect this project to encourage and mobilise interdisciplinary research activity within and beyond Newcastle
University in the future. The conference will also enable wider networks to be established through the Newcastle & Northumbria Critical Discourse Group (NNCDG), the research group co-convened by Newcastle University and Northumbria University. We intend to
select the strongest contributions from this conference for publication.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr. Majid KhosraviNik<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Lecturer in Critical Discourse Analysis / Mass Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Arts & Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Northumbria University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Newcastle upon Tyne<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">NE1 8ST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Office: 306g Squires Building<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Phone: +44 (0) 191 227 3417<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Fax: +44 (0) 191 227 3696<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Email:
<a href="mailto:majid.khosravinik@northumbria.ac.uk"><span style="text-decoration:none">majid.khosravinik@northumbria.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/media/staff/khosraviNik/?view=Standard">http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/media/staff/khosraviNik/?view=Standard</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">CDS review Editor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1740-5904&linktype=145">http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1740-5904&linktype=145</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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