Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Crisis temporalities have led a turbulent life in crisis research. Conceptually, crises are often understood in terms of high urgency and uncertainty. Some understandings disregard these characteristics, viewing them instead more broadly as threats to the basic societal structures and functioning. While several crisis typologies have relied on categorizations based on temporalities over the years, temporalities have long been disregarded because all crises were considered “slow-onset” in the sense that they grew out of existing vulnerabilities. Lately, there has been increasing attention to temporalities in the form of slow-burning or creeping crises. While a welcome development, these concepts have proven difficult to define clearly and they focus mostly on the onset phase. Conversely, chronic crises relate to already ongoing crises that continuously cause direct adverse consequences and have an elusive and prolongated end-phase.</jats:p>