Crisis

Owing to its prominence in everyday life, media, culture, economy and politics, we follow the lead of Marie Moran in taking a keywords-as-method approach to ‘crisis’. In doing so, we explore its changing meaning from a decisive moment to something more permanent. We argue this change is because of the proliferation, proximity and visibility of numerous interlocking, converging crises that are being experienced by a greater number of people across a range of spatiotemporal scales which produces a political imagination defined by incipience. Taken together, these illuminate how the changed meaning of ‘crisis’ is both a response to, and constitutive of the material conditions of lived experience, as well as our social, cultural and political imaginaries in the contemporary moment.