Anti-Crisis

Anti-Crisis
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9780822355274
ISBN-13 : 0822355272
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Book Synopsis Anti-Crisis by : Janet Roitman

Download or read book Anti-Crisis written by Janet Roitman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crisis is everywhere: in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the Congo; in housing markets, money markets, financial systems, state budgets, and sovereign currencies. In Anti-Crisis, Janet Roitman steps back from the cycle of crisis production to ask not just why we declare so many crises but also what sort of analytical work the concept of crisis enables. What, she asks, are the stakes of crisis? Taking responses to the so-called subprime mortgage crisis of 2007–2008 as her case in point, Roitman engages with the work of thinkers ranging from Reinhart Koselleck to Michael Lewis, and from Thomas Hobbes to Robert Shiller. In the process, she questions the bases for claims to crisis and shows how crisis functions as a narrative device, or how the invocation of crisis in contemporary accounts of the financial meltdown enables particular narratives, raising certain questions while foreclosing others.


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