What is an everyday crisis?

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Authors: Ben Anderson
Cited by: 3
References: 10

Abstract

What kind of thing is an everyday crisis? This paper poses this question in the context of a range of attempts to challenge and rework the geohistorically specific distinction between crisis and everyday life. After placing the term ‘everyday crisis’ in the context of contemporary reconfigurations of everyday life theory, this afterword to the Special Feature ‘Critical geographies of everyday crisis’ draws out two partially connected versions of ‘everyday crisis’ across the Special Feature and in the broader literature, and poses a series of questions about each version—first, everyday crisis as an orientation to all crises and, second, everyday crisis as a distinctive condition defined by open-endedness, an indistinction between crisis and everyday life, and a particular form of harm. The paper concludes by reflecting on questions of form in relation to crisis theorising.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Disaster Management and Resilience Critical Realism in Sociology Public Relations and Crisis Communication

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Journal / source
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Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Volume
30
Issue
1-2
Pages
569–576
Publication date
4 March 2026
Language
EN