Dear all,
We are inviting papers to our panel titled =E2=80=9CHas crisis run out of
steam? Examining
the affective, temporal and aesthetics features of crisis talk
=E2=80=9D at the E=
ASST
2022 Conference in Madrid 6-9 July 2022. The deadline is the 1st of
February and you can submit an abstract through the link:
https://easst2022.org/openpanel.asp
*Abstract:* Has crisis run out of steam? Examining the affective, temporal
and aesthetic features of crisis talk
Diseases, finance, wars, and the environment have generated in contemporary
societies a proliferation of crisis talk. Crisis has become the main
interpretative frame of social changes even if historically the past might
have witnessed more violent manifestations of these phenomena. Rather than
seeing crisis as an isolated period of time, some scholars have proposed to
examine crisis as a context, recognizing that in many places of the world
the experience of crisis is endemic rather than episodic (e.g. Vigh 2008).
Other scholars have questioned the transformative effects of moments of
crises pointing to their conservative effect through seeking to stabilise
existing structures in a contingent flow of events. Such a proliferation
might make crisis an =E2=80=9Canalytically crippled term=E2=80=9D (Bryant, =
2016) and with
Janet Roitman (2014) one could argue for an anti-crisis approach. Hence,
the need to critically examine crisis talk as an affect-generating idiom
with a specific aesthetic and with broad implications on the experience of
the present and the future. In this panel, we wish to examine what such
chronicization of crisis talk implies for the way people evaluate various
kinds of macro crises, whether environmental, political or economic.
We invite paper proposals addressing questions such as:
- How do people contest the various discourses of crises, especially
those that are claimed to be =E2=80=9Cglobal=E2=80=9D, and might conflic=
t with their lived
experiences and feelings of urgency?
- How do people evaluate claims of a crisis in a sensationalist media
environment, drawing from their own experiences?
- How do experiences of chronic crises affect efforts to mobilize
action? When there seems to be too much =E2=80=9Ccrisis=E2=80=9D or a cr=
isis saturation?
- How is authoritative epistemic and moral guidance represented in
crisis talk and how do people navigate between different knowledge claim=
s?
- What are the temporal dimensions made more salient in crisis talk and
how do various imaginations of the future become persuasive?
- What type of communicative styles are used in crisis talk and with
what effects?
Organizers: Alexandra Ciocanel (University of Manchester, University of
Bucharest) and Roosa Rytk=C3=B6nen (University of Manchester)
We look forward to your proposals!
Kind regards,
Alexandra and Roosa
