Can the permacrisis be resolved?
Permacrisis was Collin's dictionary's word of 2022. This "extended period of instability and insecurity, (especially) one resulting from a series of catastrophic events" seems to doom us to failure.
In recent articles on Transforming Society, authors Stephen McBride and John Clarke remind us that we shouldn’t fall into the trap of believing that the current permacrisis is out of our control to solve.
Here we bring together book highlights and free journal articles on crisis and resilience as a reminder that radical transformation is both necessary and possible.
Free permacrisis journal collection
This collection brings together research from across the Bristol University Press journals list to interrogate the crises we currently face, from rampant inequality to environmental disaster.
All of the articles in this collection are free to access until 28 February. Including:
Global Discourse
Crisis as experience and politics
Didier Fassin
Global Social Challenges Journal
The pandemic and the contradictions of contemporaneity
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Policy & Politics
When do disasters spark transformative policy change and why?
Daniel Nohrstedt
European Journal of Politics and Gender
‘Together we stand’: coalition-building in the Italian and Spanish feminist movements in times of crisis
Daniela Chironi and Martín Portos
Global Political Economy
Fighting the beast of the apocalypse: three fundamental reasons for a Critical Political Economy approach to Global Political Economy
Johannes Jäger