Books
Books by Reidar Staupe
Monographs, edited volumes, and handbooks on slow disasters, anticipation, and the moods that shape collective response.
- DoomscrollingForthcoming
Doomscrolling
Polity Press · Forthcoming, Q3 2026
On the compulsion to keep scrolling through bad news, and what it reveals about how we navigate an uncertain world.
ForthcomingGlobal Cooperation in Times of Crisis
Grasping the Changing Mood of the World
Routledge · Forthcoming, Q2 2026
How shifting global moods shape international cooperation across the SDGs, the Sendai Framework, and the Paris Agreement.
A Time of Disastrous Anticipations
Essays on Life in the Shadow of Catastrophe
Routledge · 2025 · Co-edited with Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz
Essays on the anticipation of catastrophe in contemporary society and how that anticipation reshapes everyday life.
- Living in Anticipation of Disastrous Futures and Everyday Processes of Disaster Risk Creation
Living in Anticipation of Disastrous Futures and Everyday Processes of Disaster Risk Creation
World Scientific · Risk Analyses and Actions, Vol. IV · Co-edited with Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz
The final volume of a four-part set, probing how past and future disasters shape the present. It examines how societies anticipate crises, experience disaster temporalities, and live with the slow creation of everyday risk.
Disasters and Life in Anticipation of Slow Calamity
Perspectives from the Colombian Andes
Routledge · 2022
Ethnographic perspectives on the lived experience of slowly unfolding disasters, drawing on fieldwork in the Colombian Andes.
- The Routledge Handbook of Catastrophic ImaginariesForthcoming
The Routledge Handbook of Catastrophic Imaginaries
Routledge · Forthcoming, Q1 2027 · Editor
A handbook mapping how catastrophe is imagined, narrated, and anticipated across disciplines and cultures.