Specialist group panel on “Life in a Permanent State of Crisis: Interpreting our World through the Crisis Management Lens” at the 40^th Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) conference (14th & 16th October 2022 / College Street Campus of Waterford IT).

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Panel abstract: In a world that has become “uncertain”, governments urge populations to be prepared and “resilient” in order to “live with risk”. Over the last two decades we have experienced a financial crisis, a security crisis marked by terrorist attacks, “natural” disasters and the return of war in Europe, a health crisis shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic, and a climate crisis whose mismanagement has been highlighted by IPCC reports. How is it that we came to think of our world as being in a permanent state of crisis? This panel takes its distance from the institutional discourses, which accept crises without questioning the social dynamics of their production. It focuses instead on the “crisis framing” of different social conflicts which are not of the same “nature” but which are deemed as “crises”. We argue that four main lines of inquiry can provide fruitful avenues of reflection on how the interpretation of social conflicts through the lens of “crisis”, an event supposed to break with the ordinary experience of time as a simple renewal of the past, came to be normalized: the “Crisis Management” agents; instruments and knowledge in “Crisis Management”; “Crisis Management” temporalities; the circulation of “Crisis Management” agents and devices.

Chairs: Piero Tellerías, Antoine Gallard (University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne).

Submissions for this panel: pfteller@uc.cl (or Piero-Fabio.Tellerias-Melgarejo@univ-paris1.fr) includind following details:

• Paper title.
• Author name(s) and affiliation(s).
• Professional status (PhD student, postdoc, lecturer, professor, independent scholar, etc.).
• Summary of the proposed paper (no more than 200 words) in English.

The deadline for submissions is the 28th June 2022. 

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