The Chinese ideogram for crisis combines two characters: danger and opportunity. This indicates the duality of crisis and suggests several important issues for current and future analyses of crisis, crisis construals, and crisis lessons. First, the ideogram signifies that crises have both objective and subjective aspects corresponding to danger and opportunity respectively. Building on Régis Debray, we can say that, objectively, crises occur when a set of social relations (including their ties to the natural world) cannot be reproduced (cannot “go on”) in the old way. Subjectively, crises tend to disrupt (even “shock”) accepted views of the world and create uncertainty on how to “go on” within it. For they threaten established views, practi...
Crisis clearly distinguishes itself from the large mass of economic phenomena through its provocativ...
THERE IS A RISK when focusing on an event of not appreciating the situation in which it lies. Of cou...
Crisis has no end. Or at least, it might seem like it, with the term ‘crisis’ qualifying all spheres...
The concluding chapter reviews our arguments in Part One in the light of the other contributions to ...
This contribution considers the potential of critical realism to illuminate the nature of crises, cr...
The subject of this essay is too complex a problem as to cover all details in depth and, thus, draws...
The ubiquity of "crisis" and its sheer pervasiveness as a description of the contemporary world mean...
This is the first in a series of short articles we plan to write on the current crisis. Our aim in t...
The subject of this essay is too complex a problem as to cover all details in depth and, thus, draws...
Item does not contain fulltextCrises have been studied in many disciplines and from diverse perspect...
This is the first in a series of short articles we plan to write on the current crisis. Our aim in t...
The ubiquity of "crisis" and its sheer pervasiveness as a description of the contemporary world mean...
This paper draws on Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, but it is neither an expo...
the underlying principle of crisis intervention "as embodied by the Chinese pictogram for &apos...
Tragedy, disaster or disorder precedes a situation labelled ‘crisis’, if it occurs. Tragedy, disaste...
Crisis clearly distinguishes itself from the large mass of economic phenomena through its provocativ...
THERE IS A RISK when focusing on an event of not appreciating the situation in which it lies. Of cou...
Crisis has no end. Or at least, it might seem like it, with the term ‘crisis’ qualifying all spheres...
The concluding chapter reviews our arguments in Part One in the light of the other contributions to ...
This contribution considers the potential of critical realism to illuminate the nature of crises, cr...
The subject of this essay is too complex a problem as to cover all details in depth and, thus, draws...
The ubiquity of "crisis" and its sheer pervasiveness as a description of the contemporary world mean...
This is the first in a series of short articles we plan to write on the current crisis. Our aim in t...
The subject of this essay is too complex a problem as to cover all details in depth and, thus, draws...
Item does not contain fulltextCrises have been studied in many disciplines and from diverse perspect...
This is the first in a series of short articles we plan to write on the current crisis. Our aim in t...
The ubiquity of "crisis" and its sheer pervasiveness as a description of the contemporary world mean...
This paper draws on Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, but it is neither an expo...
the underlying principle of crisis intervention "as embodied by the Chinese pictogram for &apos...
Tragedy, disaster or disorder precedes a situation labelled ‘crisis’, if it occurs. Tragedy, disaste...
Crisis clearly distinguishes itself from the large mass of economic phenomena through its provocativ...
THERE IS A RISK when focusing on an event of not appreciating the situation in which it lies. Of cou...
Crisis has no end. Or at least, it might seem like it, with the term ‘crisis’ qualifying all spheres...