Polycrisis: Prompts for an Emerging Worldview

David Henig and Daniel M. Knight argue that anthropology has much to offer in the conceptualization and study of polycrisis, drawing on a disciplinary “toolkit that includes historicity, temporality, scalarity and intersectionality, which adds much needed texture to the polycrisis theory” (p. 4). The authors consider the nature of crisis as an abrupt disruption versus persistent condition, challenge the “unprecedented” nature of today’s polycrisis, and highlight the tension between oversimplification and overcomplexification.