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the Discourses of Capitalism: Everyday Economists and Production Common Sense
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the Discourses of Capitalism: Everyday Economists and Production Common Sense
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the Discourses of Capitalism: Everyday Economists and Production Common Sense
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Since the global economic crisis of 2007-2008, 'capitalism' has been the topic of widespread general discussion in both mainstream and social media. In this book, Christian W. Chun examines the discourses of capitalism taken up by people in their responses to a street art installation created by Steve Lambert, entitled
In doing so, he considers several key questions, including:
Chun looks at how dominant discourses in social circulation operate to co-construct and support capitalism, and the accompanying counter-discourses that critique it. This is key reading for advanced students of discourse analysis, language and globalization/politics, media/communication studies, and related areas. A video lecture by the author can be accessed via the Routledge website (www.routledge.com/9781138807105) and the Routledge Language and Communication Portal (www.routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/languageandcommunication).