亚洲情色

Dr Zebrowski holds a BA in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Toronto and an MA and PhD in International Relations from Keele University.

He joined 亚洲情色 in 2013 as a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations and has since become a Senior Lecturer.

Dr Zebrowski is co-Director of Academic Integrity (SSH) and the IRPH EDI rep. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Dr Zebrowski was formerly a co-investigator on the ESRC-funded research project, “Enhancing the use of ResilienceDirect in the Covid-19 response: a comparative analysis of Local Resilience Forums” (ES/V010182/1), assistant editor for the journal  and was a member of the ESRC’s ‘International Collaboratory on Critical Methods in Security Studies’.

Dr Zebrowski’s research critically analyses the rationalities and practices of emergency governance.  He is particularly interested in the emergence of novel logics and techniques of emergency governance and their implications for the politics of security. He has published on a wide range of topics in this field, including work on the concept of resilience, the history of UK Civil Contingencies arrangements, technologies of emergency governance, and public order policing techniques. 

He was co-investigator on the ESRC-funded research project, “Enhancing the use of ResilienceDirect in the Covid-19 response: a comparative analysis of Local Resilience Forums” (ES/V010182/1) and is currently preparing an Impact Case 亚洲情色 (ICS) on this research for the next REF.

He is the author of numerous journal articles, including recent articles in Security Dialogue and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, as well as the research monograph The Value of Resilience: Securing Life in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge).

• International Political Theory (PIA615 & PIA617)
• Emerging Threats in the Twenty-First Century (PIC688)
• Governing Crises (PIP321).

Chris also teaches on various team-taught modules at the undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Dr Zebrowski is interested in working with research students with an interest in crises, emergency governance, resilience, philosophies of the event and/or poststructuralist theory.

Recently Completed Postgraduate Research Student

• Imogen Lambert: "Contesting revolution: the Syrian uprising and communication of events"

Journal Articles

• (2025) Henschell, C; Krasmann, S. and Zebrowski, C. Situational Awareness: sensing insecurity and coming catastrophes. Critical Studies on Security,
• (2025) Zebrowski, C. “Postneoliberal resilience: Interrogating the value of the resilience multiple in the post-Covid-19 conjunctural crisis” Geoforum 158, 104162. 
• (2024) Zebrowski, C., Sage, D., & Jörden, N. “‘Give us the Numbers!’: Undermining Shared Situational Awareness in the UK’s Covid-19 Response” Critical Studies of Security, 13(1), 21–37. 
• (2024) Sage, D., Zebrowski, C., & Jörden, N. “Rethinking trust within emergency collaboration: the significance of negative affects” Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 32 (1): (doi/10.1111/1468-5973.12504).
• (2021) Zebrowski, C., Sage, D., & Jörden, N., “Communications in Crisis: The Politics of Information-Sharing in the UK’s Covid-19 response”, Critical Studies of Security,9(2): 146-149.
• (2020) Chris Zebrowski “Acting Local, Thinking Global: Globalizing Resilience through 100 Resilient Cities” New Perspectives 28(1): 71-88.
• (2019) Andrew Neal, Sven Optiz and Chris Zebrowski “Capturing protest in urban environments: The ‘police kettle’ as a territorial strategy” Environment and Planning: D 37(6): 1045-1063.
• (2019) Chris Zebrowski “Securing Emergence: Event Suppression and the Chronopolitics of Resilience” Security Dialogue 50(2): 148-164.
• (2016) Chris Zebrowski and Dan Sage “Organising Community Resilience: An examination of the forms of sociality promoted in community resilience programmes”, Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses 5(1): 44-60.
• (2013) Chris Zebrowski “The Nature of Resilience”, Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses 1(2): 159-173.
• (2009) Chris Zebrowski “Governing the Network Society: A Biopolitical Critique of Resilience” Political Perspectives 3(1) available at

Book Chapters

• (2024) Zebrowski, C. ‘A hope against hope: Scandal, cynicism and critique in the wake of the Covid-19 polycrisis,, in: Waldow, V., Bargués, P., Chandler, D. (Eds.), The Politics of Hope: Agency, Governance and Critique in the Anthropocene. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
• (2018) Chris Zebrowski and Dan Sage. ‘Organising Community Resilience: An examination of the forms of sociality promoted in community resilience programmes’. In: Davoudi, S. & Boland, J. (eds.), The Resilience Machine, London: Routledge, pp. 62-79.
• (2017) Dan Sage and Chris Zebrowski. “Resilience and Critical Infrastructure: Origins, Theories and Critiques”. In: Dylan H, Dover R, and Goodman M (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Security, Risk and Intelligence, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 117–135.
• (2017) Chris Zebrowski “The Nature of Resilience” in Chandler, D. & Coaffee (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of International Resilience (London: Routledge): 63-76.
• (2015) Philippe Bonditti, Andrew Neal, Sven Optiz and Chris Zebrowski. “Genealogy” in Aradau, Huysmans & Neal (eds.) Critical Security Methods: New Frameworks for Analysis. London Routledge: 159-188.