The Commonalities of Global Crises

Christian Karner is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research focuses on local, national and ethnic identity negotiations in the context of contemporary globalization. His books include Writing History, Constructing Religion (co-edited with James Crossley); Ethnicity and Everyday Life; Negotiating National Identities; and The Use and Abuse of Memory (co-edited with Bram Mertens). Bernhard Weicht is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His research examines the construction of care, ageing, dependency, and the intersection of migration and care policies and regimes. He is the author of The Meaning of Care and chair of the European Sociological Association Research Network ‘Ageing in Europe’.  

1.- Introduction:
Markets, “communities” and nostalgia; Christian Karner and Bernhard Weicht.- 2.
France in times of the “Responsibility and Solidarity Pact”: “Neoliberal
normalization” or a laboratory of new resistance?; Frédéric Moulène.- 3. Neoliberal
moral economy: migrant workers’ value struggles across temporal and spatial
dimensions; Barbara Samaluk.- 4. Treble Troubles? Marketization, Social
Protection and Emancipation Considered through the Lens of Slavery; Julia O’Connell Davidson.- 5. State, Market, or back to the Family? Nostalgic
struggles for proper elder care; Bernhard Weicht.- 6. Moral economy versus political economy:
provincializing Polanyi; John Holmwood.- 7. Collective
identity under reconstruction: The case of West Piraeus (Greece); Giorgos
Bithymitris.- 8. Austria between “social protection” and “emancipation”: negotiating
global flows, marketization and nostalgia; Christian Karner.- 9. Disembedding
the embedded/disembedded opposition; José Julián López.- 10. The
politics of nostalgia in urban redevelopment projects: the case of Antwerp-Dam;
Bruno Meeus, Tim Devos and Seppe De Blust.- 11. Longing for purity:
countryside, (far-right) nationalism and the (im)possibility of progressive
politics of nostalgia ; Bernhard Forchtner.- 12. “Varieties of Nostalgia”
in Argentinean and Chilean generations ; Raimundo Frei.- 13. The Egyptian
Economic Crisis: Insecurity, Affect, Nostalgia ; Amal Treacher Kabesh.- 14.
Epilogue ; Christian Karner and Bernhard Weicht