SIEF Congress 2013 - The parliament of crisis: the saving of the European market and its effects
At the SIEF Congress 2013 we participated with two papers in a panel called: "The parliament of crisis: the saving of the European market and its effects". The Panel is about the everyday life of the current crisis and the intersection of policies and people.
The current 'crisis' in Europe is mostly described in economical terms as ruining the European fiscal union and harming the common market. Accordingly, the main aim of European politics today is saving the 'market' both as an arena of power struggles and an ideal that guides political decisions.
What are the every-day effects of fighting the crisis and saving the European market? What kinds of subjectivities, social relations and collective representations are being produced? And how can they be grasped ethnographically?