Policy Press

Critical Explorations of Crisis

Politics, Precariousness and Potentialities

Edited by Helle Rydstrom, Mo Hamza, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Vanja Berggren

Published

May 1, 2025

Page count

256 pages

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Global Discourse

ISBN

978-1529246384

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press

Published

May 1, 2025

Page count

256 pages

Browse the series

Global Discourse

ISBN

978-1529246407

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press

Helle Rydstrom is Professor at the Department 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 the Center 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.

Introduction: Crisis: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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