Critical Disaster Studies

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 acu...

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Main Author: Remes, Jacob A. C.
Other Authors: Horowitz, Andy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
Series:Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster Ser.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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653 |a What is a disaster?. 
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