The Pedagogy of Economic, Political and Social Crises - 9780367583897

Taylor & Francis

The Pedagogy of Economic, Political and Social CrisesDynamics, Construals and Lessons\nAuthor(s): Bob Jessop, Karim Knio\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367583897, 978-0367583897\nSynopsis\nCrises have been studied in many disciplines and from diverse perspectives for at least 150 years. Yet recent decades have seen a marked increase in the crisis literature, reflecting growing awareness of crisis phenomena from the 1970s onwards.\n\nResponding to this mainstream literature, this edited collection makes six key innovations. First, it distinguishes between crises as event and crises as process, as well as crises as accidental events or as the result of system-generated processes. Second, it distinguishes crises that can be managed through established crisis-management routines from crises of crisis management. Third, it focuses on the symptomatology of crisis, [url] the challenge of moving crisis symptoms to und.