Life in the Multi-Crisis
Despite the official end of the COVID-19 pandemic announced in early May this year by the WHO, its social and economic effects are still being felt. Many will probably stay with us for a long time, some possibly forever. Others have already subsided or will pass soon.
Scientists had the opportunity to assess the time of the pandemic, as well as post-pandemic, based on empirical evidence they had been collecting since the beginning of 2021 as part of the COV-WORK project Socio-economic awareness, work experiences and coping strategies of Poles in the post-pandemic crisis [Świadomość społeczno-ekonomiczna, doświadczenia pracy i strategie radzenia sobie Polaków w kontekście kryzysu post-pandemicznego] funded by the National Science Centre. The project focuses on the transformation of work, life, and collective consciousness at the peak of the pandemic, during its expiration and the simultaneous emergence of new crises caused by the war in Ukraine, high inflation, and the energy crisis.
The multiplicity of these disturbing phenomena occurring simultaneously gives rise to the claim that we live in a multi-crisis.
The project is conducted by a research consortium led by the University of Wrocław (implemented by the Department of Sociology of Work and Economic Sociology of the Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences), together with the Warsaw School of Economics, Department of Economic Sociology of the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Socio-Economics in the Collegium of Socio-Economics. The project manager is dr hab. Adam Mrozowicki, and in Warsaw, the project is led by dr Jan Czarzasty.
Discussion on the topic will take place on May 29th during a seminar in Warsaw.
Read more in the attachment below and on the project’s website.
Translated by Klaudia Kaczmarek (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
