Overview
- Develops an innovative approach to ‘crisis' through the notion of chronotope
- Theorizes intersecting crises, and their discursive and affective structures, from a range of disciplinary and geographical contexts
- Formulates new possibilities for ‘critique’ and alternative grammars in times of crisis
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society (PSGCS)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
Un)timely Crises explores how ‘crisis’—as a narrative, concept, grammar, and experience—structures time and space. This collectively written volume extends Bakhtin’s ‘chronotope’ to challenge mobilizations of crisis within neoliberal governmentality. The book explores how contemporary crises can trigger memories and traumas of earlier events as well as foster practices of resistance and alternative visions of the future. Drawing from across disciplines and geographical contexts, (Un)timely Crises reimagines the relation of ‘crisis’ with ‘critique’, proposing future trajectories for thinking and living in and through crisis.
Reviews
“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).
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: (Un)timely Crises
Book Subtitle: Chronotopes and Critique
Editors: Maria Boletsi, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Kasia Mika, Ksenia Robbe
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74946-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74945-3Published: 10 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74948-4Published: 11 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74946-0Published: 09 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2730-9282
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9290
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 101
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Media Studies, Literary Theory, Memory Studies