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Contextualizing Disaster
- 214 pages
- English
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eBook - ePub
Contextualizing Disaster
About this book
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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Yes, you can access Contextualizing Disaster by Gregory V. Button, Mark Schuller, Gregory V. Button,Mark Schuller in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- 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. âThe Tremors Felt Round the Worldâ: Haitiâs Earthquake as Global Imagined Community
- Chapter 4. Contested Narratives: Challenging the Stateâs Neoliberal Authority in the Aftermath of the Chilean Earthquake
- Chapter 5. Decentralizing Disasters: Civic Engagement and Stalled Reconstruction after Japanâs 3/11
- Chapter 6. Expert Knowledge and the Ethnography of Disaster Reconstruction
- Chapter 7. âWe Are Always Getting Readyâ: 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