Critical Explorations of Crisis

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.

• ‘Crisis Times’: Critical Explorations of Crisis Politics, Precariousness, and Potentialities - Helle Rydstrom, Mo Hamza and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen1. Crisis as Experience and Politics – Didier Fassin2. The Case for Interdisciplinary Crisis Studies – Annika Bergman-Rosamond, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Mo Hamza, Jeff Hearn, Vasna Ramasarand Helle Rydstrom3. Refugee Crises: An Architype for Crisis Studies – Roger Zetter4. Crisis and Society: Developing the Theory of Crisis in the Context of COVID-19 – Sylvia Walby5. Slow Crisis in Bissau and Beyond – Henrik Vigh6. The ‘Hardship’ of Ordinary Crises: Gendered Precariousness and Horizons of Coping in Vietnam’s Industrial Zones – Helle Rydstrom7. The Place and Potential of Crisis/Crises in Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities – Jeff Hearn8. Surviving in Overcome Heights: Living In and alongside Crisis in Cape Town – Steffen Bo Jensen and Nanna Schneidermann9. Chronic Crisis and Nuclear Disaster Humanitarianism: Recuperation of Chernobyl and Fukushima Children in Italy – Ekatherina Zhukova10. Crisis Futures: COVID-19 and the Speculative Turning Point of History – Ravinder Kaur11. The Ends of Perpetual Crisis – Janet Roitman12. A Decisive Moment: Human Rights or Authoritarianism? It Is a Choice – Morten Kjaerum