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This paper analyses the ways in which a phenomenon becomes defined and positioned as a crisis within a social context. In terms of identified and publicly articulated causes of crisis, the proposed analytical framework defines three distinctive positions the phenomenon characterised as a crisis occupies: situational, corrective, and critical positions. In this context, the paper also overviews the relationship between politics, as a mechanism of public or collective interest, and technocracy, as a mechanism for guiding an area of social life, as well as the role of ignorance and the unknown in the construction of knowledge and the positioning of crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]