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.
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
About the Author :
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.
Review :
“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
