humanitarian lighting devices to agencies responding to protracted conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as, prospectively, future crisis created by disease epidemics or climate change. The month before I met him, Virgil had been in Niamey
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Capturing Crisis
Solar Power and Humanitarian Energy Markets in Africa
Jamie Cross
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 105–124 (20 total)
Crisis? How Is That a Crisis!?
Reflections on an Overburdened Word
Michael Freeden
Two references to crisis are familiar to many historians. Reacting to British Prime Minister James Callaghan’s abject failure to deal with the notorious, “winter of discontent” of 1979, the tabloid Sun ran a headline mockingly declaiming, “Crisis
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 12–28 (17 total)
Reflecting on Crisis
Ethics of Dis/Engagement in Migration Research
Ioanna Manoussaki-Adamopoulou, Natalie Sedacca, Rachel Benchekroun, Andrew Knight, and Andrea Cortés Saavedra
discuss how we, as academics based in the Global North, engage with a dynamic phenomenon continuously punctuated by crisis. Finding ourselves in close proximity to situations of crisis and increasing systemic violence has posed a number of ethical and
In Migration and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 124–135 (12 total)
Towards an Ethnography of Crisis
The Investigation of Refugees’ Mental Distress
Francesca Morra
efforts to make a foreign space familiar. After several years spent in reception projects without overcoming precarity, Lily felt a deep sense of loss and showed the marks of her struggle. Drawing on the notion of crisis ( de Martino 1977 ), I consider
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 36–43 (8 total)
Hegemony, Crisis and Bonapartism in Italy, Spain and France
Francesco Maria Scanni and Francesco Compolongo
theory can therefore become a useful method for comprehending and ‘re-ordering’ a reality that often appears difficult to grasp in its complexity. This article uses the lens of Gramscian theory to interrogate the effects of the 2008 economic crisis (and
Anthropology after the crisis
James G. Carrier
Recently anthropology has experienced an intellectual crisis of confidence, a sense that the discipline has lost its way, and an institutional crisis, a loss of resources following the financial crisis. Together, these crises provide a perspective that helps us to make sense of what preceded them. This article argues that both crises are signs of the failure of the neoliberalism that rose to prominence in the 1980s, both as a foundation for public policy and as an important, though unrecognized, influence on elements in anthropological thought. It focuses on that influence. It does so by describing some of the changes in anthropological orientation since the 1980s. Prime among these are the loss of disciplinary authority, the solidification of the focus on culture at the expense of a focus on society, and the rejection of systemic theories of social and cultural order. It is argued that, together, these changes have left anthropologists with no critical perspective on the world, just as the ascendance of neoclassical economics left economists with no such critical perspective.
The Roots of Crisis
Interrupting Arendt's Radical Critique
Nica Siegel
Although Hannah Arendt is often described as a radical thinker, this article argues that such a characterisation has occluded the question of what 'radicality' might mean within the particular horizon of Arendt's thought. While the battle over Arendt's legacy is fought on terms that oppose the radical to the conservative, Arendt herself is engaged in a different struggle, namely the opposition of the radical and the banal as it emerges in Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963). This article will investigate this tension and Arendt's response to its emergence. Beginning with an account of radicality in relation to Arendt's work on crisis in Between Past and Future (1961) before turning towards the interruption of Eichmann and 'the banality of evil', this article will end by articulating a trajectory towards The Life of the Mind, Arendt's unfinished attempt, demanded by the particular crisis of Eichmann, to think unradicality radically.
The Contemporary Crisis of Representative Democracy
Simon Tormey
This article looks closely at the “crisis of representative democracy,” noting that this crisis is evident across the main variables of interest to political scientists (voting, party membership, trust in politicians, and interest in mainstream politics). The argument here is that the crisis is located not only in short term or contingent factors such as financial crisis, the decadence of the current generation of politicians or the emergence of New Public Management—which often appear as the villains of the piece. It is also located in long term and structural factors linked to the types of social and political interaction associated with “first modernity.” With the displacement of this temporality under post-Fordist, reflexive or “second” modernity, we are witnessing a different set of dynamics shape the terrain of politics. Globalization, individualization, and the proliferation of communicative platforms is taking us away from “vertical” interactions in which representative politics is typical, toward more distributed, flatter, or “horizontal” modes of sociality, working, and organizing—leaving us in a “post-representative” political moment.
In Democratic Theory
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 104–112 (9 total)
Adapting to Crisis
Migration Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Aydan Greatrick, Jumana Al-Waeli, Hannah Sender, Susanna Corona Maioli, Jin L. Li, and Ellen Goodwin
of (dis)engaging from the field during times of crisis, especially for those who had finished fieldwork and were writing up (Manoussaki-Adamopoulou et al. , 2022). Both articles draw on the authors’ personal reflections and collective conversations
In Migration and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 115–123 (9 total)
Social Quality Indicators in Times of Crisis
The Case of Greece
Konstantinos G. Kougias
Chronic deficiencies of the Greek welfare state and the introduction of austerity measures as part of the international financial bailout agreements have created an explosive cocktail of poverty and social exclusion that severely tested the resilience of the frail social safety net and the demands of equity. The score on the indicators of social quality has worsened considerably as the Greek welfare system was overhauled. This article examines the four conditional factors of social quality from the viewpoint of socio-economic policies and everyday experiences in Greece during the crisis.
In The International Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 46–68 (23 total)