Languages of Resistance, Transformation and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes: From Crisis to Critique, Maria Boletsi, Janna Houwen and Liesbeth Minnaard (eds) (2021)

Parting from the premise that the term crisis has been normalized by the neo-liberal rhetoric that overturned its original sense, the book Languages of Resistance, Transformation and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes: From Crisis to Critique sets the ambitious goal to bring new meaning to this word and restore its semantic multiplicity. The work is particularly significant because it addresses one of the major problems of our time, namely global crisis, by framing it within a cultural perspective. In doing so, it offers a rich overview of the most important theoretical scholarship on the subject, while at the same time it presents a vast range of its applications in cultural analysis; therefore, it concretely provides the reader with the means to reread and rethink contemporaneity under new points of view. In this sense, the book constitutes one of the most evident manifestations of the indispensable political role of cultural studies, and by extension, of contemporary humanities.