 CrisisTim van de Meerendonk Chapter 5 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology, 2025, pp 29-33 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: This encyclopedia entry delves into the multifaceted nature of the concept of 'crisis', underscoring the significance of ethnography in comprehending the term. Crisis is frequently invoked in public discourse as a starting point for addressing collective, macrostructural issues. Simultaneously, it cannot be denied that experiences with crisis are personal and depend a great deal on individual experiences, practices and positionalities. The entry explores how anthropologists have grappled with this intricate relationship between structural assessments and personal encounters with crisis. Drawing on anthropological insights from scholars working on economic lives, it investigates how ethnography sheds light on the nuanced, everyday manifestations of crisis within the context of the economy. Examining two ethnographic snapshots from fieldwork conducted on agricultural crisis and suicide in India, the entry illustrates how vernacular understandings of crisis take form in the lives of rural individuals in central Maharashtra. The entry asserts that ethnography plays a crucial role in bringing macrostructural analyses of crisis and its situated experience into conversation. Keywords: Crisis; India; Farmer suicide; Climate insurance; Redistribution; Ethnography (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:22348_7 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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