A Time of Disastrous Anticipations
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A Time of Disastrous Anticipations

Essays on Life in the Shadow of Catastrophe

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eBook - ePub

A Time of Disastrous Anticipations

Essays on Life in the Shadow of Catastrophe

About this book

This book explores the pervasive anticipation of catastrophe in contemporary society, examining how temporal expectations shape personal and collective experiences and influence our perspectives and responses.

A Time of Disastrous Anticipations highlights the role of anticipation in shaping societal narratives, exploring strategies for redefining responses to catastrophic imaginaries. Through a combination of theoretical insights with practical examples, it offers a comprehensive view of anticipation's impact in contemporary society. The vista of disastrous anticipations reveals that catastrophe is not so much a matter out of place, but primarily a matter out of time.

Targeted at scholars, students, and professionals in sociology, disaster studies, and public policy, this book is also valuable for policymakers and practitioners interested in understanding the societal dimension of disaster anticipation.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040381687
Topic
Social Sciences
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of figures
  9. List of tables
  10. Contributors’ biographies
  11. Foreword
  12. Preface and acknowledgement
  13. Introduction: a time of disastrous anticipations
  14. 1 Situating dread
  15. 2 A phenomenology of anticipation: experience, culture, social distribution, and collectivity
  16. 3 We are the times: temporal agency of utopian, dystopian, and (post)apocalyptic futures
  17. 4 Disasters as time, time as disasters
  18. 5 Surviving (in) time: national history and memory as temporal factors underlying ontological and national security
  19. 6 The changing mood of the world in times of ‘polycrisis’ and its influence on the post-2015 development spirit
  20. 7 Misconstrued anticipations? Disaster politics in the age of disinformation
  21. 8 Entangled disasters: relations and vulnerabilities in the transformation and dissolution of Kiruna and Malmberget
  22. 9 Cultural resilience in polycrisis: a pathway to suicide prevention
  23. 10 Understanding natural hazard phenomena and risks from the perspective of ‘instrumental realism’: examples from Geiranger and Lyngen, Norway
  24. Epilogue: some after-thoughts about before-it-happens
  25. Index

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