In:
Progress in Human Geography, SAGE Publications, Vol. 44, No. 4 ( 2020-08), p. 621-639
Abstract:
How lives are governed through emergency is a critical issue for our time. In this paper, we build on scholarship on this issue by developing the concept of ‘slow emergencies’. We do so to attune to situations of harm that call into question what forms of life can and should be secured by apparatuses of emergency governance. Through drawing together work on emergency and on racialization, we define ‘slow emergencies’ as situations marked by a) attritional lethality; b) imperceptibility; c) the foreclosure of the capacity to become otherwise; d) emergency claims. We conclude with a call to reclaim ‘emergency’.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0309-1325
,
1477-0288
DOI:
10.1177/0309132519849263
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
2020
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1501497-6
detail.hit.zdb_id:
131842-1
SSG:
14
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