Critical Explorations of Crisis
Politics, Precariousness and Potentialities
Edited by Helle Rydstrom, Mo Hamza, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Vanja Berggren
ISBN
978-1529246384Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529246407Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressHelle 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