By Kristín Loftsdóttir,Lars Jensen,Lars, Mr Jensen,Kristín, Ms Loftsdóttir

With discourses of ‘crisis’ and ‘disaster’ that includes strongly in modern discourses on modern society, this publication brings jointly severe views from around the humanities and social sciences to discover the belief of ‘crisis’ as inherently on the topic of energy dynamics and the formation of other subjectivities and identities in the Nordic international locations and globally.

This quantity emphasizes the significance of investigating the interrelationship of 3 crises - social, monetary and environmental - as those handle the interlinked surfaces of an identical truth, and it examines the destructive connotations of the thought of situation, when additionally elevating the query of while and why anything turns into pointed out as obstacle, and for whom.

With chapters on media representations of drawback and the worldwide context of trouble discourses, the obstacle of nationwide identities and their mobilization in reaction, and environmental quandary, in addition to the interrelationship among the social and the environmental and the several positioning of people with regards to energy, this quantity bargains an knowing of obstacle as a multivocal image of the current. As such, it is going to entice students of sociology, anthropology, background, cultural reviews, literature and political science.

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