On the ‘Polycrisis’ Part I: Issues in Abstract Conceptual Circumference

Complexity

Bo Harvey examines origins and recent popularity of the polycrisis concept, then rebuts critiques of the concept by Noah Smith and Guney Isikara. In response to the latter, Harvey problematizes the reduction of all the world’s problems to “capitalism” by noting the wide breadth of that term. “In other words, I want to argue that there might be more to this whole polycrisis phenomenon than simply being another instance of ideological obfuscation by left-liberals who are not willing to go far enough.”

Read Harvey’s follow-up post here.

Author(s)

Bo Harvey

Publication Date

24 January 2023

Publisher

Substack

DOI / URL

Complexity

Resource Type

Blog Post

Resource Theme

Theory Building

Uses the term polycrisis

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