« Crisis » in the Americas : Is there a Regionally Distinctive Kind ?

Although the idea of « crisis » is indispensable it eludes categorical definition because of its polysemy. What the multiple variants of the term share is a prior notion of some kind of normalcy or order. That is what every crisis disrupts. But conceptions of the normal order of things are variable...

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Main Author: Laurence Whitehead
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut des Amériques 2013-10-01
Series:IdeAs
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ideas/611
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