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Critical Explorations of Crisis: Politics, Precariousness, and Potentialities

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Preface: crisis as experience and politics
Didier Fassin

The case for Interdisciplinary Crisis Studies
Annika Bergman-Rosamond, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen et al, 

Refugee crises: an architype for crisis studies
Roger Zetter

Crisis and society: developing the theory of crisis in the context of COVID-19
Sylvia Walby

Crisis and change: the politics of potentialities. A reply to ‘Crisis and society: developing the theory of crisis in the context of COVID’, by Walby
Heidi Gottfried

Slow crisis in Bissau and beyond
Henrik Vigh

Crisis as ‘slow’ or an existential state of being: a reply to ‘Slow crisis in Bissau and beyond’ by Vigh
Ninna Nyberg Sørensen

The ‘hardship’ of ordinary crises: gendered precariousness and horizons of coping in Vietnam’s industrial zones
Helle Rydstrom

Social reproduction meets the world market: a reply to ‘The “hardship” of ordinary crises: entanglements and gendered lives in Vietnam’s industrial zones’ by Helle Rydstrom
Jonathan D. London

The place and potential of crisis/crises in critical studies on men and masculinities
Jeff Hearn

The conceptual imbrications of men, masculinities and crises - a reply to ‘The place and potential of crisis/crises in critical studies on men and masculinities’ by Jeff Hearn
Ov Cristian Norocel

Surviving in Overcome Heights: living in and alongside crisis in Cape Town
Steffen Bo Jensen and Nanna Schneidermann

The politics of urban displacement and emplacement in Overcome Heights
Jesper Bjarnesen

Chronic crisis and nuclear disaster humanitarianism: recuperation of Chernobyl and Fukushima children in Italy
Ekatherina Zhukova

Humanitarianism, mobility and kinship: a reply to ‘Chronic crisis and nuclear disaster humanitarianism: recuperation of Chernobyl and Fukushima children in Italy’ by Zhukova
Anne-Meike Fechter

Crisis futures: COVID-19 and the speculative turning point of history
Ravinder Kaur

Crisis times - a reply to ‘Crisis futures: COVID-19 and the speculative turning point of history’ by Ravinder Kaur
Nanna Bonde Thylstrup

Macroeconomic equilibriums, crises and fiscal policy
Fredrik N.G. Andersson

On fiscal rules, gross domestic product forecasts and prediction of economic crises - a reply to ‘Macroeconomic equilibriums, crises and fiscal policy’, by Fredrik N.G. Andersson
Henrik Hansen

The ends of perpetual crisis
Janet Roitman

A decisive moment: human rights or authoritarianism? It is a choice
Morten Kjaerum

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