Slow emergencies: temporality and the racialized biopolitics of emergency governance

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

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
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1332588