Critical Explorations of Crisis

Politics, Precariousness, and Potentialities
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4638-4
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 162 mm, Gewicht: 552 g

Claims to ‘crisis’ reverberate across societal and academic discourses, as people around the world face dire situations and detrimental challenges. Yet, the study of crisis tends to remain siloed and therefore oblivious to the multi-dimensional nature of crisis, which inhibits learning from one type of crisis to the next. Bringing together a broad team of contributors, this book argues for a new interdisciplinary field of crisis studies. Covering a range of cases, the book critically explores the intersections of socio-economic, political, climate, and health factors to unravel the dynamic and transformative forces of crisis. In doing so, the book contributes novel insights into human precariousness and resilience in times of crisis shaped by global—local inequities, ‘post-fact’ discourses, and politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rydstrom, Helle

Hamza, Mo

Gammeltoft-Hansen, Thomas

Berggren, Vanja

Inhaltsverzeichnis

‘Crisis Times’: Critical Explorations of Crisis Politics, Precariousness, and Potentialities - Helle Rydstrom, Mo Hamza and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen

1. Crisis as Experience and Politics – Didier Fassin

2. The Case for Interdisciplinary Crisis Studies – Annika Bergman-Rosamond, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Mo Hamza, Jeff Hearn, Vasna Ramasarand Helle Rydstrom

3. Refugee Crises: An Architype for Crisis Studies – Roger Zetter

4. Crisis and Society: Developing the Theory of Crisis in the Context of COVID-19 – Sylvia Walby

5. Slow Crisis in Bissau and Beyond – Henrik Vigh

6. The ‘Hardship’ of Ordinary Crises: Gendered Precariousness and Horizons of Coping in Vietnam’s Industrial Zones – Helle Rydstrom

7. The Place and Potential of Crisis/Crises in Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities – Jeff Hearn

8. Surviving in Overcome Heights: Living In and alongside Crisis in Cape Town – Steffen Bo Jensen and Nanna Schneidermann

9. Chronic Crisis and Nuclear Disaster Humanitarianism: Recuperation of Chernobyl and Fukushima Children in Italy – Ekatherina Zhukova

10. Crisis Futures: COVID-19 and the Speculative Turning Point of History – Ravinder Kaur

11. The Ends of Perpetual Crisis – Janet Roitman

12. A Decisive Moment: Human Rights or Authoritarianism? It Is a Choice – Morten Kjaerum

Über Autor(innen)

Hamza, Mo
Mo Hamza is Professor at the Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety at Lund University, Sweden.

Rydstrom, Helle
Helle Rydstrom is Professor at the Division of Gender Studies at Lund University, Sweden.

Gammeltoft-Hansen, Thomas
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen is Professor at and Director of the Centre of Excellence for Global Mobility Law at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Berggren, Vanja
Vanja Berggren is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

Helle Rydstrom is Professor at the Division of Gender Studies at Lund University, Sweden.

Mo Hamza is Professor at the Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety at Lund University, Sweden.

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen is Professor at and Director of the Centre of Excellence for Global Mobility Law at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Vanja Berggren is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden.