Crisis as usual?

Crisis as usual?

Update: 2025-09-04
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This week we talk about the language of crisis and ask whether it enables or prevents us from moving towards a fairer economy. 

Words of Affirmation is a podcast from Care Full, hosted by Hannah Webster & Ruth Hannan.

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You can find out more about hosts Care Full on our website.

This week we talked about:

  • Adam Tooze on the polycrisis for the Financial Times here

  • The use of metaphors when talking about economic crisis here 

  • An exploration of crisis, value and hope here

  • Social Care Futures work on how to build support to transform social care and the language of crisis here

  • Rethinking Economics

  • Zohran Mamdani and his treasure hunt

Our music for the episode is Bobby Bertoli’s Rebirth (thanks Bob x). And thank you to Robyn Moffat for supporting the podcast with a professional studio and our best sounding episode yet!


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