Crisis, urgency and the problem of discernment

Crises proliferate. Not just as labels but the actual state of affairs, impasse, ruination and breakdown. As an anthropologist working on Syria with extensive fieldwork inside country before uprising 2011, later ongoing in Lebanon, Jordan exiled Syrians Europe, I find it safe to say that crisis is polyvalent. Crisis slow urgent moves time across locations. This piece argues we need engagement forms calls urgency. for exercise discernment, which takes urgency claims a diagnostic ethnographic exploration.