Duke University Press has recently published New School Professor Janet Roitman’s book, “Anti-Crisis.”
The book, which can be found here, “steps back from the cycle of crisis production to ask not just why we declare so many crises but also what sort of analytical work the concept of crisis enables,” using “responses to the so-called subprime mortgage crisis of 2007–2008 as her case in point,” Roitman ultimately “questions the bases for claims to crisis and shows how crisis functions as a narrative device, or how the invocation of crisis in contemporary accounts of the financial meltdown enables particular narratives, raising certain questions while foreclosing others.”