Overview

The world is increasingly influenced by ongoing crises, or at least this is what mainstream media and politics wants us to believe. As is shown here, a crisis most often comes in the form of situations challenging a sense of normality, such as with violent conflicts, pandemics, or forced migration. However, crisis is not just a situation twisting normality but can become constitutive of normality itself. In exploring transformative and constructive elements to being in crisis, this volume resituates the view on crisis in everyday life to foster critical and nuanced examination of discourses on and experiences of it.

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Author:   Dorte Jagetic Andersen ,  Lola Aubry
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805398257

ISBN 10:   1805398253
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   01 January 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Silencing Crises / Making Crises Speak Dorte Jagetic Andersen and Lola Aubry Part I: (Re)Bordering the Crisis: Thinking Geopolitics from Everyday Life Chapter 1. Everyday (Re)Bordering the Crisis Georgie Wemyss Chapter 2. Performing Crises/ Gatekeeping Crises: The Narrative Corridor in German Asylum and Court Hearings Janina Schmidt Chapter 3. Geopolitics and Biopolitics of Governing Cross-Border Mobilities in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Rationalities, Technologies and Subjectivities Satu Kivelä and Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola Chapter 4. Do I Cross a Border Now? An (Auto)Ethnographic Account of Borders and Bordering in Times of Crisis (and beyond) Maria Fortuna and Dorte Jagetic Andersen Part II: Revisiting the Critical Potential of Crisis Chapter 5. Europe & the Crisis of Critical Thinking: Revisiting the Popular Movement Neues Forum Marlene Paulin Kristensen Chapter 6. ‘It is All about Sexual Energy’: Context-Specific Renditions of Homosexuality in Soviet Lithuania Rasa Kamarauskaitė Chapter 7. Crisis Art: Artivism and Gender in Pandemic Times Astrid M. Fellner Chapter 8. Good Trouble: On Moral Crises and Ethical Experimentations Lola Aubry Part III: Crisis in, as and of Imperial and Colonial Legacies Chapter 9. Crisis Apartheid: The Smokescreen of ‘Geographical Proximity’ as Rationalization to Legitimize a Welcome Politics for Ukrainian Refugees and Necropolitics for All the Others Rodrigo Bueno Lacy and Henk Van Houtum Chapter 10. Revisiting Ballybogoin – Lines, Traces, and Tidemarks in the Northern Irish Borderlands Dorte Jagetic Andersen Chapter 11. The Imposition of European Culture in the Indian Residential Schools of Canada and the Crisis of Colonial Narrative Gaia Cardin and Kim Marcia Wittenburg Chapter 12. Partition, Colonial Trauma and Temporalities of Stories: Writing and Performing Stories in Tandem to Situate Our Colonial Traumas in the Tensed Fields of Opacity and Heali Kolar Aparna and Manju Sharma Afterword: Spatializing Crisis Olivier Kramsch Index

Reviews

“This is an excellent edited volume that is innovative, intriguing, and highly topical.” • James W Scott, University of Eastern Finland “It has several fascinating and original chapters. It addresses crisis as an analytical term, bringing new perspectives on the term, its scale, and its analytical use.” • Synnøve Bendixsen, University of Bergen

Author Information

Dorte Jagetic Andersen is Associate Professor at the Centre for Border Region Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark with a background in European ethnology, European continental philosophy and political science.

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