Anti-Crisis

Name: Anti-Crisis
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ISBN: 9780822355274

ISBN-10: 0822355272

ISBN-13: 9780822355274

Edition: 2013

Authors: Janet Roitman

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Crisis is everywhere: in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the Congo; in our 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 2007–08 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…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/20/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 0.20" wide x 0.31" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.594