Médiathèque

Project film: Multiple Crises. Covid-19 and the Entanglements of Public Health, Security and Ecology in Europe

The research project "Multiple Crises. Covid-19 and the Entanglements of Public Health, Security and Ecology in Europe" was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Its aim was to explore the entanglements and interplays between various crisis phenomena, with a special focus on the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change. Both crisis phenomena are equally accompanied by social, political and economic distortions, and manifest as multiple crises characterized by a high degree of complexity, multidimensional interactions, existential threat situations and an immediate need for action. The concrete interdependencies of these phenomena, were identified and analyzed with respect to three major thematic areas, namely public health, security and ecology.

The project film captures our main research questions and illustrates the challenges of current modes of crisis governance. Against this background we argue in favor of a stronger role of the social sciences and humanities in understanding and developing possible solutions for the multiple crises of our time.

Video Production: Limo for Research (https://www.4research.eu/)