permacrisis

English

Etymology

From perma- +‎ crisis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː(ɹ)məˌkɹaɪsɪs/

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Noun

permacrisis (plural permacrises)

1. A permanent crisis, one that continually drags on.
   • 1994, John Zysman, “Korean Choices and Patterns of Advanced Country Development”, in Lee-Jay Cho, Yoon Hyung Kim, editors, Korea's Political Economy: An Institutional Perspective‎^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3]:

     In the age of permacrisis, the world we live in will continue to be characterised by high levels of uncertainty, fragility and unpredictability.

Related terms

• critical
• multicrisis (adj)
• polycrisis

See also

• state of emergency

Further reading

• Helen Bushby (2022 November 1) “Permacrisis declared Collins Dictionary word of the year”, in BBC News‎^[4], BBC, retrieved 2022-12-05