Reflecting on Ben Wisner’s Contributions to Scholarship and Scholars
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Reflecting on Ben Wisner’s Contributions to Scholarship and Scholars

The Benschrift

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eBook - ePub

Reflecting on Ben Wisner’s Contributions to Scholarship and Scholars

The Benschrift

About this book

This book is a festschrift in tribute to Ben Wisner's contributions to disaster studies and adjacent fields of scholarship such as political ecology, development and sustainability.

This festschrift for Ben, and so The Benschrift, revitalises, promotes and critiques a selection of six foundational articles that span Ben's 50-year career. Each article is reproduced integrally and followed by a commentary by an expert in the field and a response from Ben. As a result, this book not only introduces a lifetime's work to the latest generation of researchers; it also contributes a meaningful dialogue across decades of scholarship, expressing contemporary reflections alongside the understanding of how to engage with and improve past research. Two fundamental truths stand out: the value of local knowledge and the necessity of seeking root causes and radical solutions.

This book is an essential read for students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners interested in the development and evolution of disaster scholarship, political ecology, development and sustainability studies.

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Yes, you can access Reflecting on Ben Wisner’s Contributions to Scholarship and Scholars by Ben Wisner,JC Gaillard,Ilan Kelman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Sciences physiques & Géographie humaine. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040450352
Topic
Sciences physiques
Subtopic
Géographie humaine

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Acknolwedgements
  10. Foreword: Speaking truth to power
  11. Introduction
  12. Keep Truckin’: My life as clown, philosopher, activist and radical geographer
  13. Analogies of Vietnam in East Africa village life
  14. The best of times, the worst of times: Two commentaries on Wisner’s ‘Analogies of Vietnam in East Africa village life’
  15. Ben’s response to David Stea and Kristina Peterson’s commentaries: Mental gymnastics and boots on the ground
  16. Global systems and local disasters: The untapped power of people’s science
  17. Reflection on ‘Global systems and local disasters: The untapped power of people’s science’
  18. Ben’s response to Jake Cadag’s commentary: The untapped power of peoples’ science
  19. Nutritional consequences of the articulation of capitalist and non-capitalist modes of production in Eastern Kenya
  20. Nutrition and post-colonial change in Eastern Kenya
  21. Ben’s response to Terry Gibson’s commentary: Nutrition and post-colonial change in Eastern Kenya
  22. Disaster vulnerability: Scale, power and daily life
  23. Revisiting the past to think about our roles as scholars, practitioners and activists: The importance of ‘Disaster vulnerability: scale, power, and daily life’
  24. Ben’s response to Victor Marchezini’s commentary: Daily life (the universe and everything?)
  25. Assessment of capability and vulnerability
  26. (Re)Assessing capacity and vulnerability
  27. Ben’s response to Mihir Bhatt’s commentary
  28. Speaking truth to power: A personal account of activist political ecology
  29. Reflection on ‘Speaking truth to power’
  30. Ben’s response to Ksenia Chmutina’s commentary: More thoughts on truths and powers – angry, anchored versus relative and blasé
  31. Spatial Histories of Radical Geography: North America and Beyond: Book review forum
  32. Some political undercurrents in Ben Wisner’s review of ‘Spatial Histories of Radical Geography’
  33. Ben’s response to Salvadore Engel-Di Mauro’s commentary: Speaking to the next few generations
  34. Postscript: Letter to the young
  35. Ben Wisner’s bibliography
  36. Index