A publication of our board member, Prof. Janet Roitman, University Professor at The New School.
“L’Afrique, autrement. Dépasser la crise”. Multitudes 69, hiver 2017, pp. 173-179.
Access: https://www.bsad.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=274
“Africa, Otherwise” in B. Goldstone and J. Obarrio eds. African Futures, University of Chicago Press, 2016, pp. 23-38.
Access: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo24550592.html
A collection of publications on the topic of ‘Anti-Crisis’ from our board member, Prof. Janet Roitman, University Professor at The New School.
Anti-Crisis, Duke University Press, 2014.
Access: https://www.dukeupress.edu/anti-crisis
Interview with Janet Roitman: On the publication of Anti-Crisis (Duke University Press, 2014) by M. Schapira, Full Stop. Reviews. Interviews. Marginalia, February 19, 2014.
Access: https://www.full-stop.net/2014/02/19/interviews/michael-schapira/janet-roitman/
“Anti-Crisis”, Risk and Regulation, 26, Winter 2013: 4-5
Interview with Janet Roitman: “Anti-Crisis. Thinking with and against crisis” Journal of Cultural Economy, 13, 6. 2020, pp. 772-778
Access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17530350.2020.1807388
A co-authored publication from SCSC Vice President, Prof. Mo Hamza, Professor at the Division for Risk Management and Societal Safety, Lund University.
Lama, P.; Hamza, M. and Wester, M. (2020) Gendered Dimensions of Migration in Relation to Climate Change. Climate and Development. DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2020.1772708
A co-authored publication from SCSC Vice President, Prof. Mo Hamza, Professor at the Division for Risk Management and Societal Safety, Lund University.
Marino, E.; Rivera-Gonzalez, J.; Benadusi, M.; Dietrich, A.; Hamza, M.; Jerolleman, A. and Koons, A. (2020) COVID-19 and All the Things That Kill Us: Research Ethics in the Time of Pandemic. Practicing Anthropology, 42(4): 36-41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.42.4.36
A publication from our board member, Prof. Roger Zetter, Professor Emeritus in Refugee Studies, University of Oxford.
‘Refugee crises: An archetype for crisis studies’, Global Discourse, March, DOI: 10.1332/204378920X15809957963751. March/April 2020
Access: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bup/gd/pre-prints/content-rgld20200010#
The Society for Critical Studies of Crisis was born out of an international and interdisciplinary Advanced Study Group and a CRISIS Theme, supported by the Pufendorf Institute at Lund University in 2019.
The CRISIS Theme was a response to the ways in which ‘crisis’ seems to weave our world together as threads of a transnational crisis narrative. Sometimes crisis rhetoric appears in populist and apocalyptic ways, sometimes as a variable in political strategies to justify social exclusion and economic austerity measures.
Yet, crisis also refers to abrupt incidents that shatter the foundation of daily life and to prolonged suffering that ruptures lifeworlds, livelihoods, and communities. The social asymmetries imbued in a crisis due to parameters such as gender, ethnicity, and class, however, are only rarely recognized in respect to crisis interpretation, the many-layered impacts of a crisis, and the policies implemented to cope with a crisis and its aftermath.
Common approaches to crisis have not kept pace with the increasing complexity in the socio-economic and political systems dealing with a crisis and how a crisis kaleidoscopically is taking new shapes when bouncing between the global and local levels. The temporalities of a crisis are rarely analyzed and the differences between crisis as emergency, crisis as a path to renewal, and crisis as chronicity; as a new normalcy of prolonged difficulties tend to be overlooked.
These conditions call for novel and critical perspectives to the study of crisis. While carefully exploring the conceptualization of ‘crisis’, the CRISIS Theme also carries out inter- and multidisciplinary examinations of the interconnectedness between various types of crises, the economic, political, and ideological aspects of a crisis, and the socially differentiated impacts and unequal ramifications of a crisis.
Four focal areas are carefully studied by the CRISIS Theme to understand the complexities of urgent events, namely: (1) climate change; (2) conflicts; (3) population movement; and (4) global health. Even though each area is not uncommonly analyzed as a siloed event, these areas tend to interlock and in doing so configure the politics, realities, and experiences of crisis.
In 2021, the SCSC is organizing a series of webinars with scholars from around the world. The themes of the webinars are centered around the topic of the polarities of crisis in the global world, where crisis is simultaneously understood as an area of contestation and control.
What are crises? How can we conceptualise them? Why, and how should we study them with a critical lens? How is crisis experienced but also embedded in political strategies and discourses? With questions such as these, we commence a fortnightly webinar series which opens up debate and critically explores the nature of crises. The aim of the series is to promote the development of critical scholarship of crises and to establish a network of scholars interested in pursuing research and policy analysis of ‘crisis studies’.
Please click on each webinar’s link to read the abstract and attend through Zoom. Webinar links will be added as soon as possible.
Opening Webinars
Webinar 1: Scoping Critical Crisis Studies. (panel discussion)
**Rescheduled: 25 February 2021, 11:15-13:00 CET**
Date & time: 25 February 2021, 11:15-13, attend webinar
Moderator and Chair: Roger Zetter, Emeritus Professor, Refugee Studies Center, University of Oxford, UK.
Co-Chair: Helle Rydstrom, Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden
Panelists:
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Janet Roitman, Professor, The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, USA.
Helle Rydstrom, Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden.
Webinar 2: Slow crisis: Social Perspectives and Relations within Critical Conditions.
Date & time: 15 February 2021, 14-16, attend webinar
Chair: Henrik Vigh, Professor, Institute for Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Speakers:
Matthew Carey, Associate Professor, Institute for Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Henrik Vigh, Professor, Institute for Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Webinar 3: Human Mobility in Times of Crisis: Legal and Political Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil. (panel discussion)
Date & time: 1 March 2021, 14-16, attend webinar
Chair: Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Panelists:
Isadora Gonçalves, Doctoral researcher, Department of Law, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil.
Florian Hoffmann, Professor, Department of Law, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil.
Discussant: Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Webinar 4: Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India.
Date & time: 15 March 2021, 14-16, attend webinar
Chair: Helle Rydstrom, Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden.
Speaker: Ravinder Kaur, Associate Professor, Centre of Global South Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen.
Discussant: Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Webinar 5: Crisis: Masculinities, Violences and Harm.
Date & time: 1 April 2021, 14-16, attend webinar
Chair: Helle Rydstrom, Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden.
Speakers:
Steffen Jensen, Professor, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University, Denmark.
Helle Rydstrom, Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden.
Atreyee Sen, Associate Professor, Department for Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.
Webinar 6: The Political Economy of Crisis.
Date & time: 15 April 2021, 10-12, attend webinar
Chair: Ekatherina Zhukova, Researcher, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden.
Speaker: Erik Andersson, Associate Professor, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Discussant: Catia Gregoratti, Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden.
Webinar 7: Racialising the Digital: Is It Déjà Vu All Over Again?
Date & time: 3 May 2021, 14-16, attend webinar
Co-Chairs:
Helle Rydstrom, Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden.
Mo Hamza, Professor Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety, Lund University, Sweden.
Speakers:
Ann Phoenix, Professor, Institute of Education, University College London and Swedish Research Council Kerstin Hesselgren, Guest Professor, Umeå University.
Discussant: Cristian Norocel, Associate Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University.
Webinar 8: Are Refugee Crises, Crises?
Date & time: 17 May 2021, 14-16, attend webinar
Chair: Roger Zetter, Emeritus Professor, Refugee Studies Center, University of Oxford, UK.
Discussant: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Professor, Migration and Refugee Studies and Co-Director, UCL-Migration Research Unit, University College London, UK.
Webinar 9: Human Rights: a System in Crisis? *cancelled*
Date & time: 1 June 2021, 14-16
Unfortunately, this webinar has been cancelled.
Webinar 10: Crisis in Disasters and Conflicts.
Date & time: 15 June 2021, 10-12, attend webinar
Chair: Ekatherina Zhukova, Researcher, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden
Speaker: Dorothea Hilhorst, Professor, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Discussant: Anne-Meike Fechter, Reader in Anthropology, University of Sussex, UK.
The following works have been published by CRISIS Theme members.
In English:
“The Many Dimensions of a Crisis, Lund University Research Magazine”
“Disasters Evermore: Past, Present and Future Risk in an Uncertain World”
“The End of the Deterrence Paradigm? Future Directions for Global Refugee Policy”
“Futureearth Blog: Research, Innovation, Sustainability”
“A Crisis in Masculinity; New Agenda for Men?”
“Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy in the Making: Ethics, Politics, and Gender”
“Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis: Reassessing the Interwar Period”
In Swedish:
“Stor seger för Indiens HBTQ-befolkning”
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