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Article: Events and Crises: Toward a Conceptual Clarification
Title | Events and Crises: Toward a Conceptual Clarification |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Black Lives Matter crisis event George Floyd shooting |
Issue Date | 18-Jan-2023 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Citation | American Behavioral Scientist, 2023 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This article aims for a conceptual model of how crises and events function together and apart, starting from the view that the two are not interchangeable. I therefore define events as structural transformations that can be the object of empirical knowledge, but which are not self-evident or known to all as they take place. Crisis-claims, meanwhile, are performative judgments or demands for a different future. Given that structural transformations are not self-evident in the moment, a crisis-claim, in this sense, is a guess that an event is taking place. This distinction is elucidated through a computational text analysis of U.S. media reporting on shootings, focusing on the month before and the month after George Floyd’s death. Building on this conceptual distinction, I argue that events and crises can coincide, constitute, and even modify the other. But crises can occur without reference to events, and events can take place which are not deemed to be crises. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/337511 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.3 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.012 |
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dc.contributor.author | Sendroiu, Ioana | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-11T10:21:28Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-03-11T10:21:28Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2023-01-18 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | American Behavioral Scientist, 2023 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0002-7642 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/337511 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>This article aims for a conceptual model of how crises and events function together and apart, starting from the view that the two are not interchangeable. I therefore define events as structural transformations that can be the object of empirical knowledge, but which are not self-evident or known to all as they take place. Crisis-claims, meanwhile, are performative judgments or demands for a different future. Given that structural transformations are not self-evident in the moment, a crisis-claim, in this sense, is a guess that an event is taking place. This distinction is elucidated through a computational text analysis of U.S. media reporting on shootings, focusing on the month before and the month after George Floyd’s death. Building on this conceptual distinction, I argue that events and crises can coincide, constitute, and even modify the other. But crises can occur without reference to events, and events can take place which are not deemed to be crises.</p> | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | American Behavioral Scientist | - |
dc.subject | Black Lives Matter | - |
dc.subject | crisis | - |
dc.subject | event | - |
dc.subject | George Floyd | - |
dc.subject | shooting | - |
dc.title | Events and Crises: Toward a Conceptual Clarification | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/00027642221144843 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85146609831 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1552-3381 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000913865300001 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0002-7642 | - |