We live in times of multiple crises. Governance strategies for crisis response, especially in terms of prevention and preparedness, are confronted with cascading and intertwined processes resulting in extensive delimitations and interactions between social, political and economic dynamics. Especially for the cases of climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic the governance of multiple crises has to cope with high degrees of urgency, uncertainty and complexity. This workshop aims to critically rethink governance in times of multiple crises by assessing crises responses of political decisionmakers, scientific experts and society in the context of climate change and pandemics. It invites theoretical and empirical research contributions that focus on one of the two crisis phenomena and relate the following topics:

• Political crisis management: between techno fixes and social participation


• Crises reactions of scientists and experts: science-policy-nexus and the role of knowledge


• The social dimension of crises: risk perception, medialization and imaginaries

The applications must be submitted as a single pdf sent by June 11, 2023 to: gabriel.bartl@cmb.huberlin.de & judith.hardt@cmb.hu-berlin.de. Selected participants will be notified by mid-June and
provided with different kinds of material to be well prepared for workshop.

 

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Rethinking Governance in Times of Multiple Crises: Call for Contributions