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When COVID-19 swept across the globe, it disrupted routines, relationships and our sense of time and space.
Drawing on rare longitudinal research with residents in 22 countries across Europe and Latin America, this book traces how people lived through, interpreted, and reshaped the crisis in real time. From everyday care practices to citizen–state relations and grassroots self-organization, it reveals the complexities and inequalities of global crises, showing that they are not abstract events but negotiated in kitchens, workplaces, and communities.
The book offers a grounded, bottom-up rethinking of what crisis means - and what more just futures might require.
Bettina M. Zimmermann is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technical University of Munich and Senior Researcher at the University of Basel.
Amelia Fiske is Senior Researcher at the Technical University of Munich.
Barbara Prainsack is Professor at the University of Vienna, Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity, and Chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies. She led the SolPan consortium in Europe.
Isabella M. Radhuber is Senior Researcher at the University of Vienna, and Guest Researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). She led the SolPan+ Latin America consortium.
Introduction: Researching Crisis - Barbara Prainsack, Amelia Fiske, Katharina Kieslich, Isabella M. Radhuber, Bettina M. Zimmermann
Part I: The Social in Crisis
1. Practising Post-Colonial Commons in Bolivia: Self-Organisation in Times of Crises - Marie Theresa Jasser, Blanca Colque, Carla Becerra, Claudia Cuellar, Dunia Mokrani, Isabella M. Radhuber, Kevin Zapata, Claudia Martínez, Javier Copa, Oscar Vega Camacho
2. A Syndemic of Inequality: Exploring How the COVID-19 Crisis Sparked Civil Forms of Solidarity in Colombia - Nicolasa Del Llano Toro, Wilson López-López, Juan Diego Rodríguez-Romero, Maria-Juliana Reyes-Rivera, Laura Camila Sarmiento Marulanda, Laura Valentina Pulido Herrera, María José Cuervo Rocha
3. Responsible Citizens: Between Compliance and Interpretation in the Italian Response to COVID-19 - Ilaria Galasso, Federica Lucivero, Luca Marelli
Part II: The Governance of Crisis
4. Crises as Moments for Societal Shifts: Ambivalent Trust and New Horizontal Cleavages in Post-Pandemic Argentina - Alejandro Pelfini, Marianela Ressia
5. The Politicisation of Crisis: Responses to Governmental COVID-19 Measures in Mexico and Brazil - Luis Marquez Admade, Luca Marelli, Flavia Bueno, Priscilla Cardia Petra, Christian O. Grimaldo-Rodríguez, Ine Van Hoyweghen, Isabella M. Radhuber
6. The Dispersed State of Liminal Crisis: Citizen-State Relations in Ecuador During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Michael D. Hill, Consuelo Fernández-Salvador
7. A Crisis of Scientific Expertise? Swiss and German Residents’ Perceptions of Science and Scientific Experts During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Bettina M. Zimmermann
Part III: Crisis as a Reflection
8. Negotiating Time amid Crises: People’s Experiences During COVID-19 in Portugal - Emília Rodrigues Araújo
9. Experiencing Crisis Through Affective Polarisation: Findings from German-Speaking Switzerland - Bettina M. Zimmermann and Katharina T. Paul
10. Everyday Future-Thinking and Future-Making During the COVID-19 Crisis: Stories from Latin America and Europe - Gertrude Saxinger, Emília Rodrigues Araújo, Michael D. Hill, José Antonio Román Brugnoli, Sarah Buchberger, Christian O. Grimaldo-Rodríguez, Emma Morales García de Alba, Diego Silva Peyró and Isabella M. Radhuber
11. The COVID-19 Crisis and the Anthropause: The Great Rupture or Simply a Return to Normal? - Amelia Fiske, Isabella M. Radhuber, Marie Jasser, Gertrude Saxinger, Consuelo Fernández-Salvador, Emília Rodrigues Araújo, Barbara Prainsack
Conclusion: Negotiating Crisis in Two Continents