March 25, 2024
It seems as if we are increasingly plagued by disasters, wars and epidemics. Not only are our safety and well-being threatened, but it also gets under our skin. We suddenly find ourselves on opposite sides and no longer trust each other. How does a society survive a crisis? Professors Beatrice de Graaf and Lotte Jensen are conducting research together with five universities into how we can be better prepared and talk regarding it in Op1.
We live in strange times, we see much more crisis and more and more people live near crisis. On the other hand, we are getting better at throwing money and technical tools at a crisis. In the corona crisis alone, 85 billion euros have been set aside in a year and a half. As a result, the Netherlands emerged from the crisis fairly quickly, economically and financially. “What we say in our project: have we thought enough regarding the social, cultural and administrative consequences?” says De Graaf. We can handle it technically and financially, but not socially, mentally, culturally.
How do you get society on board?
“That is why we choose the multidisciplinary perspective. We also choose a historical perspective to show that many patterns recur throughout history,” says Jensen. The corona crisis has many parallels with the cholera crisis in the 19th century. There were already riots once morest the measures at that time.
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