‘Because Climate Change Is the Crisis That Will Stay With Us’: Crisis, Polycrisis, and Permacrisis in the EU Discursive Space

This chapter builds on a research project investigating the interplay between health and climate change in EU discourse (Bevitori and Russo, 2023; Russo and Bevitori, 2024). Drawing on theories and methodologies of corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis, the chapter broadens the scope and focus of previous research by providing an in-depth analysis of discursive framings of polycrisis in EU political communication. As our findings suggest, polycrisis and permacrisis may provide the interpretative lens for a deeper understanding of crisis as a rhetorical construct in the EU discursive space.