In this article Bergman Rosamond and her co-authors argue that our contemporary world is defined by the presence and claims of crisis – from climate change, financial and political crisis to depression, livelihoods to personal security crisis.
Moreover, they note that there is a challenge to studying crisis due to the ways in which crisis as a concept, condition and experience refers to and operates at various societal levels.
Furthermore, different kinds of crisis can overlap and intersect with each other, and act as precursors or consequences of other crises, in what can be thought of as inter-crisis relations or chains of crises.
This article conducts an enquiry into how to develop more adequate analytical tools for understanding crisis as a multidimensional phenomenon, investigating such things as gender, security, climate change and migration.
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