Commonalities of Global Crises

Christian Karner is AssociateProfessor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. His researchfocuses on local, national and ethnic identity negotiations in the context ofcontemporary globalization. His books include Writing History, ConstructingReligion (co-edited with James Crossley); Ethnicity and EverydayLife; Negotiating National Identities; and The Use and Abuse ofMemory (co-edited with Bram Mertens).Bernhard Weicht is AssistantProfessor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His researchexamines the construction of care, ageing, dependency, and the intersection ofmigration and care policies and regimes. He is the author of The Meaning ofCare 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”: “Neoliberalnormalization” or a laboratory of new resistance?; Frédéric Moulène.- 3. Neoliberalmoral economy: migrant workers’ value struggles across temporal and spatialdimensions; Barbara Samaluk.- 4. Treble Troubles? Marketization, SocialProtection and Emancipation Considered through the Lens of Slavery; Julia O’Connell Davidson.- 5. State, Market, or back to the Family? Nostalgicstruggles for proper elder care; Bernhard Weicht.- 6. Moral economy versus political economy:provincializing Polanyi; John Holmwood.- 7. Collectiveidentity under reconstruction: The case of West Piraeus (Greece); GiorgosBithymitris.- 8. Austria between “social protection” and “emancipation”: negotiatingglobal flows, marketization and nostalgia; Christian Karner.- 9. Disembeddingthe embedded/disembedded opposition; José Julián López.- 10. Thepolitics 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 progressivepolitics of nostalgia ; Bernhard Forchtner.- 12. “Varieties of Nostalgia”in Argentinean and Chilean generations ; Raimundo Frei.- 13. The EgyptianEconomic Crisis: Insecurity, Affect, Nostalgia ; Amal Treacher Kabesh.- 14.Epilogue ; Christian Karner and Bernhard Weicht