permacrisis
English
Etymology
perma- + crisis
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɜː(ɹ)məˌkɹaɪsɪs/
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Noun
permacrisis (plural permacrises)
- A permanent crisis, one that continually drags on.
- 1994, John Zysman, “Korean Choices and Patterns of Advanced Country Development”, in Lee-Jay Cho and Yoon Hyung Kim, editor, Korea's Political Economy: An Institutional Perspective, Routledge, published 2018, page 170:
- Europe 1992 must be understood as an effort by European governments and business elites to meet the permacrisis of slowed growth and higher levels of unemployment; respond to the changing American and Japanese capabilities; and promote their collective position in the international order.
- 1998, Manuel Castells, End of Millennium, 2nd edition, Wiley-Blackwell, published 2010, pages 7–8:
- Agriculture continued to be in permacrisis, and shortages of consumer goods were customary, but exports of energy and materials, at least until 1986, were providing a hard currency cushion for remedial imports, so that the living conditions of Soviet citizens were better, not worse, in the mid-1980s than a decade earlier.
- 2021, Ricardo Borges de Castro, “Anticipatory democracy: Harnessing the power of people and strategic foresight”, in European Policy Centre:
- In the age of permacrisis, the world we live in will continue to be characterised by high levels of uncertainty, fragility and unpredictability.
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See also
- polycrisis
Further reading
- Helen Bushby (1 November 2022), “Permacrisis declared Collins Dictionary word of the year”, in BBC News, BBC, retrieved 2022-12-05