{"product_id":"untimely-crises-chronotopes-and-critique-paperback","title":"(Un)Timely Crises: Chronotopes and Critique - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaria Boletsi\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eNatashe Lemos Dekker\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKasia Mika\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUn)timely Crises\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003e(Un)timely Crises\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines the relation of 'crisis' with 'critique', proposing future trajectories for thinking and living in and through crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003e(Un)timely Crises\u003c\/i\u003e offers new pathways for thinking 'crisis, ' this catchword of our time. In critical and interdisciplinary fashion, the book mobilizes the \u003ci\u003echronotope\u003c\/i\u003e to give innovative insights into various crisis typologies, geographies, and temporalities. Through theory and examples, the authors show how to refine our understandings of and our modes of learning from crises. The book is ideal for everyone seeking to rethink the concept of crisis and the practice of critique.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Miriam Meissner, \u003c\/b\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eNarrating the Global Financial Crisis: Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth \u003c\/i\u003e(2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book offers invaluable insights into the 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. It is a must for every scholar who wants to understand the complex ramifications of the use of the term 'crisis' and an indispensable volume for these crisis-ridden times.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Stijn De Cauwer\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eeditor of \u003ci\u003eCritical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis \u003c\/i\u003e(2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Un)timely Crises\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003e(Un)timely Crises\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines the relation of 'crisis' with 'critique', proposing future trajectories for thinking and living in and through crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaria Boletsi\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatashe Lemos Dekker \u003c\/b\u003eis Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Netherlands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKasia Mika\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKsenia Robbe\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen, Netherlands.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 101\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42121337798791,"sku":"9783030749484","price":113.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/6e985139b321e67f890dae1bb8800b18.webp?v=1732552862","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/untimely-crises-chronotopes-and-critique-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}