Against the Crisis

Ståle Holgersen is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Örebro University, Sweden. He is a member of two research collectives: the Zetkin Collective (ecosocialist group working on political ecologies of the far right) published White Skin, Black Fuel on Verso in 2021 and Fundament (a housing research collective) published Kris i Bostadsfrågan on Daidalos in 2023. This is his first monograph in English.

The most clarifying dissection of 'crisis' as concept and reality to appear in several decades, at the least. As we lurch from one crisis to another, this will be essential reading

• PrefaceIntroduction: Crises Are Not Opportunities - They Are the Enemy1 When the Economy Is Not Healthy...Economic CrisisA Century of Crises: In Theory and RealitySolving a Crisis/Crisis as Solution2 An Infected WoundEcological CrisisAnthropocene: Th e Crisis of Man?Not Solving the Climate Crisis3 Rooted in CapitalismFive Levels of AbstractionTo Shake and to Stabilise4 The Class Character of CrisesLosing, Winning and Causing CrisesCrises Are Caused by One Class, but AnotherMust Pay the PriceNo One Is Punished, but Murder It Remains5 Creating Crises in Its Image6 Our Crisis Is NowThe Useless DecadeThe Corona Crisis as Social ParoxysmThe Crisis of Neoliberalism, or: Thoughts on How the Crisis Reproduces Capitalism This TimeEpilogue: Optimism at the Edge of a CliffTen Thoughts on Socialist Crisis PolicyIndex