(Un)timely Crises
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Maria Boletsi is Endowed Professor of Modern Greek Studies (Marilena Laskaridis Chair) at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at Leiden University, Netherlands.
Natashe Lemos Dekker is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Netherlands.
Kasia Mika is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Ksenia Robbe is Senior Lecturer in European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen, Netherlands.
Reviews / Votes
"Crisis' is an omnipresent catchword of our time. (Un)timely Crises offers new pathways for thinking it. In a critical and interdisciplinary fashion, the book mobilizes the concept of chronotope to give innovative insights into a broad yet overlapping set of crisis typologies, geographies, and temporalities. Through theory and examples, the authors succeed in showing how to refine both our understandings of and our modes of learning from crises in their various contemporary articulations. The book is ideal for everyone seeking to rethink the concept of crisis and the practice of critique."
- Miriam Meissner (Maastricht University), author of Narrating the Global Financial Crisis: Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth (Palgrave)
"This book offers invaluable insights into the complex spatio-temporal effects of the rhetoric of crisis. Concise in format, it provides a wealth of reflection about the "grammars" of crisis by scholars from various fields. This book is a must for every scholar who wants to understand the complex ramifications of the use of the term "crisis", which makes this an indispensable volume for these crisis-ridden times."
- Stijn De Cauwer (KU Leuven), editor of Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis (Columbia UP).
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Natashe Lemos Dekker is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Netherlands.
Kasia Mika is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Ksenia Robbe is Senior Lecturer in European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen, Netherlands.
Content
1. Introduction.- 2. Navigating chronic crisis.- 3. Grammars of/in crisis.- 4. In and out of crisis: chronotopes of memory.- 5. Critique under duress: what is the role of critique and radical critical theory in the present of pathos?