A Time of Disastrous Anticipations Essays on Life in the Shadow of Catastrophe

Foreword by Frank Furedi

Preface

Contributors

Introduction: A Time of Disastrous Anticipations

Reidar Staupe and Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz

1.    Situating Dread

David Theo Goldberg

2.     A Phenomenology of Anticipation: Experience, Culture, Social Distribution, and Collectivity

Christopher Stephan and Devin Flaherty

3.    We Are the Times: Temporal Agency of Utopian, Dystopian, and (Post)Apocalyptic Futures

Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz

4.    Disasters as Time, Time as Disasters

Tomás J. Usón and Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger

5.    Surviving (in) Time: National History and Memory as Temporal Factors Underlying Ontological and National Security

Piotr Gil

6.    The Changing Mood of the World in Times of ‘Polycrisis’ and its Influence on the Post-2015 Development Spirit

Md Mohaiminul Islam Khan and Reidar Staupe

7.    Misconstrued Anticipations? Disaster Politics in the Age of Disinformation

Miriam Matejova

8.    Entangled Disasters: Relations and Vulnerabilities in the Transformation and Dissolution of Kiruna and Malmberget

Tobias Olofsson

9.      Cultural Resilience in Polycrisis: A Pathway to Suicide Prevention

Barbara Schabowska

10.   Understanding Natural Hazard Phenomena and Risks from the Perspective of ‘Instrumental Realism’: Examples from Geiranger and Lyngen, Norway

Leikny Bakke Lie and Reidar Staupe

Epilogue: Some After-Thoughts about Before-it-Happens

Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz and Reidar Staupe

Index

Biography

Reidar Staupe is Associate Professor of Risk Management and Societal Safety at the University of Stavanger in Norway and at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He is the author of the Routledge title Disasters and Life in Anticipation of Slow Calamity: Perspectives from the Colombian Andes. He has also published dozens of articles and chapters on disasters, global public health and development. From 2021 to 2023 he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellow (MSCA-IF) at Roskilde University, Denmark. His research interests revolve around disaster temporalities and ideas about future catastrophes and prognostications.

Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz is Associate Professor in Societal Security and Safety at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway, where she leads the Secure Societies group. She specializes in non-linear and cross-sectoral threats to security, especially in the context of political violence and securitized migration. She holds a PhD from St Andrews University (UK), and her doctoral thesis explored the questions of identity and belonging considered from a security perspective, with a particular focus on the potential terrorist threat posed by European converts to Islam. She has carried out interdisciplinary research in Scotland, England, The Netherlands, Denmark, Kosovo, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Taiwan. She is a European Commission Expert, Rapporteur & Evaluator of Horizon Europe projects, and an associate member of the Centre for Security Research in Edinburgh. Recently appointed as the Arctic Six Chair in Terrorism Studies, and the Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of National Defense and Security Research in Taipei, she focuses now on dystopias and societal collapses.