Critical Explorations of Crisis: Politics, Precariousness and Potentialities
Helle Rydstrom · Mo Hamza · Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen · Vanja Berggren
Sep 2025 · Policy Press
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About this ebook
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.
About the author
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.
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