Crisis is everywhere: in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the Congo;
in housing markets, money markets, financial systems, state
budgets, and sovereign currencies. In "Anti-Crisis," Janet Roitman
steps back from the cycle of crisis production to ask not just why
we declare so many crises but also what sort of analytical work the
concept of crisis enables. What, she asks, are the stakes of
"crisis"? Taking responses to the so-called subprime mortgage
crisis of 2007-2008 as her case in point, Roitman engages with the
work of thinkers ranging from Reinhart Koselleck to Michael Lewis,
and from Thomas Hobbes to Robert Shiller. In the process, she
questions the bases for claims to crisis and shows how crisis
functions as a narrative device, or how the invocation of crisis in
contemporary accounts of the financial meltdown enables particular
narratives, raising certain questions while foreclosing others.
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