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Scholars from seven disciplines, whose work spans five continents, announce a new way of seeing disasters that is essential for making sense of our time: critical disaster studies. Critical Disaster Studies strips away the technocratic veneer that too often makes structural problems appear to be acute emergencies.
Scholars from seven disciplines, whose work spans five continents, announce a new way of seeing disasters that is essential for making sense of our time: critical disaster studies. Critical Disaster Studies strips away the technocratic veneer that too often makes structural problems appear to be acute emergencies.
Introduction. Introducing Critical Disaster Studies
Andy Horowitz and Jacob A. C. Remes
Part I. Knowing Disaster
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 Noncrisis of the Late 1990s
Dara Z. Strolovitch
Part II. Governing Disaster
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
Part III. Imagining Disaster
Chapter 8. Mediating Disaster, or A History of the Novel
Susan Scott Parrish
Chapter 9. The T¿kai Earthquake and Changing Lexicons of Risk
Kerry Smith
Chapter 10. Translating Disaster Knowledge from Japan to Chile: A Proposal for Incompleteness
Chika Watanabe
Afterword. "Acts of Men": Disasters Neglected, Preventable, and Moral
Kenneth Hewitt
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Politikwissenschaften |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780812224825 |
| ISBN-10: | 0812224825 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: |
Jacob A.c. Remes
Andy Horowitz |
| Redaktion: |
Remes, Jacob A C
Horowitz, Andy |
| Hersteller: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 226 x 150 x 20 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jacob A C Remes (u. a.) |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 20.08.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,386 kg |
Introduction. Introducing Critical Disaster Studies
Andy Horowitz and Jacob A. C. Remes
Part I. Knowing Disaster
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 Noncrisis of the Late 1990s
Dara Z. Strolovitch
Part II. Governing Disaster
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
Part III. Imagining Disaster
Chapter 8. Mediating Disaster, or A History of the Novel
Susan Scott Parrish
Chapter 9. The T¿kai Earthquake and Changing Lexicons of Risk
Kerry Smith
Chapter 10. Translating Disaster Knowledge from Japan to Chile: A Proposal for Incompleteness
Chika Watanabe
Afterword. "Acts of Men": Disasters Neglected, Preventable, and Moral
Kenneth Hewitt
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Politikwissenschaften |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780812224825 |
| ISBN-10: | 0812224825 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: |
Jacob A.c. Remes
Andy Horowitz |
| Redaktion: |
Remes, Jacob A C
Horowitz, Andy |
| Hersteller: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 226 x 150 x 20 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jacob A C Remes (u. a.) |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 20.08.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,386 kg |
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