« 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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| Language: | English |
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Institut des Amériques
2013-10-01
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| Series: | IdeAs : Idées d’Amériques |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ideas/611 |