Contextualizing Disaster ( Catastrophes in Context )

Publication series ：Catastrophes in Context

Author： Button Gregory V.;Schuller Mark  

Publisher： Berghahn Books‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9781785332814

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781785332807

Subject： C91 Sociology;X4 Disasters and Prevention

Keyword： 灾害及其防治,社会学

Language： ENG

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Description

Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slow-burning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a mistake to think of disasters as isolated or discrete occurrences. Rather, building on insights developed by political ecologists, this book makes a compelling argument for understanding disasters as transnational and global phenomena.

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 — A Poison Runs Through It: The Elk River Chemical Spill in West Virginia

Chapter 2 — Whethering the Storm: The Twin Natures of Typhoons Haiyan and Yolanda

Chapter 3 — "The Tremors Felt Round the World": Haiti's Earthquake as Global Imagined Community

Chapter 4 — Contested Narratives: Challenging the State's Neoliberal Authority in the Aftermath of the Chilean Earthquake

Chapter 5 — Decentralizing Disasters: Civic Engagement and Stalled Reconstruction after Japan's 3/11

Chapter 6 — Expert Knowledge and the Ethnography of Disaster Reconstruction

Chapter 7 — "We Are Always Getting Ready": How Diverse Notions of Time and Flexibility Build Adaptive Capacity in Alaska and Tuvalu

Chapter 8 — Tempests, Green Teas, and the Right to Relocate: The Political Ecology of Superstorm Sandy

Index

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