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Title Conceptualizing the After-Crisis through Ethnographies of Post-Crisis Situations in Africa
Full text https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/433129
Date 2022
Author(s) Bedert, Maarten; Dijk, Rijk van; Bochow, Astrid
Contributor(s) Sovereignty and Social Contestation
Abstract In this introductory article, we seek to conceptualize the after-crisis ethnographically. We ask what happens when crises like natural disasters, violent conflicts, or epidemics are over? Whereas these crises often entail interventions by (inter-)national organizations that introduce new (infra)structures, resources, knowledge and expertise in local contexts, the withdrawal of these interventions might lead to a transmutation of crises as new conflicts and inequalities emerge. In order to understand the dynamics of the post-crisis, we critically explore three possible prerequisites through which crises can mutate in the post-crisis moment: a presumed return to normalcy; the possibility of a real break or discontinuity; and the rhizomatic nature of power, which leads to new configurations of power that were previously absent or obscured.
Language en
Relation 0001-9887
Type of publication Article
Format application/pdf
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/ClosedAccess
Identifier Africa Today 68(4), - (2022)
Repository Utrecht - University of Utrecht
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