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Slow emergencies: temporality and the racialized biopolitics of emergency governance

Anderson, B.; Grove, K.; Kearnes, M.; Rickards, L.

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Authors

K. Grove

M. Kearnes

L. Rickards



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’.

Citation

Anderson, B., Grove, K., Kearnes, M., & Rickards, L. (2019). Slow emergencies: temporality and the racialized biopolitics of emergency governance. Progress in Human Geography, 44(4), 621-639. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519849263

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 16, 2019
Online Publication Date May 16, 2019
Publication Date Jan 1, 2019
Deposit Date Apr 23, 2019
Publicly Available Date Apr 23, 2019
Journal Progress in Human Geography
Print ISSN 0309-1325
Electronic ISSN 1477-0288
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 44
Issue 4
Pages 621-639
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519849263

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Anderson, B., Grove, K., Kearnes, M. & Rickards, L., Slow emergencies: temporality and the racialized biopolitics of emergency governance, Progress in Human Geography. 44(4) pp. 621-639. Copyright © The Author(s) 2019. DOI: 10.1177/0309132519849263





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