Critical disaster studies
Introducing critical disaster studies / Andy Horowitz and Jacob A.C. Remes -- Chapter 1. The Voyage of the Paragon : disaster as method / Scott Gabriel Knowles and Zachary Loeb -- Chapter 2. Acts of God, man, and system : knowledge, technology, and the construction of disaster / Ryan Hagen -- Chapte...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Press
[2021]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Critical studies in risk and disaster
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| Zusammenfassung: | Introducing critical disaster studies / Andy Horowitz and Jacob A.C. Remes -- Chapter 1. The Voyage of the Paragon : disaster as method / Scott Gabriel Knowles and Zachary Loeb -- Chapter 2. Acts of God, man, and system : knowledge, technology, and the construction of disaster / Ryan Hagen -- Chapter 3. When does a crisis begin? Race, gender, and the subprime noncrisisof the late 1990s / Dara Z. Strolovitch -- Chapter 4. Concrete kleptocracy and Haiti's culture of building : toward a new temporality of disaster / Claire Antone Payton -- Chapter 5. Risk technopolitics in Freetown slums : why community-based disaster management is no silver bullet / Aaron Clark-Ginsberg -- Chapter 6. Spaces at risk : urban politics and slum relocation in Chennai, India / Pranathi Diwakar -- Chapter 7. Plan B : the collapse of public-private risk sharing in the US National Flood Insurance Program / Rebecca Elliott -- Chapter 8. Mediating disaster, or A history of the novel / Susan Scott Parrish -- Chapter 9. The Tōkai Earthquake and changing lexicons of risk / Kerry Smith -- Chapter 10. Translating disaster knowledge from Japan to Chile : a proposal for incompleteness / Chika Watanabe -- "Acts of Men" : disasters neglected, preventable, and moral / Kenneth Hewitt "This book reflects the efforts of a group of scholars to consider a new generation of research on disasters and to chart a course for future study. They find common cause under the banner of "critical disaster studies," even as their individual research agendas span at least seven disciplines and four continents. Existing research often assumes the category of disaster as an objective given and aspires to a technical analysis of achievements and failures-while treating political and historical context as, at best, just another variable in the matrix. The authors in this book do the opposite. They do not take disasters, as a thing in themselves, for granted. They find context essential. Therefore, although they often seek to understand one particular event, they do so by widening the frame to perceive the social surround"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 273 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9780812299724 |