Crisis subjectivities: resilient, recuperable, and abject representations in the new hard times

“…In this context, there has been mounting academic wrangling over the (political) risks of this crisis ‘everywhereness’ manifesting in a crisis of exploded analytical meaning and purchase (Madden, 2023; Roitman, 2013). These wranglings arise, in part, because of the scale and scope of crisis, its diffusion in and across spheres of life, which has become ‘increasingly normal and perpetual instead of functioning as localized disruptions to the ordinary’ (Calvente & Smicker, 2019, p. 143). This ‘crisis ordinary’ (Berlant, 2011) departs from normative notions of crisis as an unexpected chasm or illogical departure from an expectation or norm (Roitman, 2013).…”

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Qualitative longitudinal methodologies for crisis times: Against crisis exceptionalism and ‘helicopter’ research

Brickell,

Lawreniuk,

McCarthy

2024

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In this introduction to the collection of papers ‘Qualitative Longitudinal Methodologies for Crisis Times’, we argue that two main characteristics or ‘qualities’ of qualitative longitudinal methodologies (QLMs) can be identified for researching crisis. The first is that QLMs can function to repudiate crisis exceptionalism. The papers denounce the discrete and time‐limited, instead impressing the ongoingness of crisis from the past, the present, and into the future. The second overarching point made in the introduction is that QLMs protect against ‘helicopter’ research, a heightened risk when studying crisis times. Together the papers offer a close and complex introspection on the use and outcome of QLMs in spaces and times of crisis from the perspective of researchers undertaking the research, and in multiple instances, research participants enrolled in them.

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“…Temporality is indeed a central force in the political processes prompted by crises. The usual order of business is suspended as unexpected needs redefine the geometry and chronology of political and collective actions (Calvente and Smicker, 2017; Cazdyn, 2012; Scott, 2014; Sharma, 2014). As Hay argues, the temporality of the crisis is dense and condensed, presenting ‘a strategic moment in the transformation of the state’ (Hay, 1999: 320).…”

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confidence: 99%

Inequities in first education policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis: A comparative analysis in four Central and East European countries

Manea¹,

Safta-Zecheria

Neumann

et al. 2021

European Educational Research Journal

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The historically high inequities in the education systems of Central and East-European countries have been further exacerbated in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using critical frame analysis, we compared the education policy debates in Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Republic of Moldova during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic with a particular focus on inequities. We discuss the policy frames proposed and utilized by governmental and non-governmental actors to understand their roles played in articulating policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis, and highlight the specificities and commonalities of the political language within and across the national borders of the four countries. We conclude with our findings on the dynamics and structure of the policy debate between state and non-state actors in times of crisis with a particular focus on policy spaces and policy temporalities. Two ways of constructing spatio-temporalities co-exist: one is national, state and public health centric and focuses on governing ‘through’ the crisis; and the other is focused on long term planning while constructing the crisis as an opportunity for decisive intervention towards more equitable education.

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Crisis subjectivities: resilient, recuperable, and abject representations in the new hard times

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Racism is a public health crisis! Black Power in the COVID-19 pandemic

Racism is a public health crisis! Black Power in the COVID-19 pandemic

Qualitative longitudinal methodologies for crisis times: Against crisis exceptionalism and ‘helicopter’ research

Inequities in first education policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis: A comparative analysis in four Central and East European countries

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