Living with floods
Social practices and transformations of flood management in Chiapas, Mexico
- 338 pages
- English
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Living with floods
Social practices and transformations of flood management in Chiapas, Mexico
About this book
Living with floods addresses flooding as a globally prevalent phenomenon that people deal with in different and contested ways. As empirical examples from the Mexican river Usumacinta show, local perspectives of floods can be highly ambivalent, wherein floods are described as both positive and negative dynamics. Different evaluations of floods by different actors imply different prevention, mitigation and response measures. In this study, the management of flood risks is understood as part of a complex network of social practices. Drawing on theories of social practices, especially on conceptual approaches by Theodore Schatzki, this study develops a practice theory view on flood risk management. In a social science oriented tradition of geographical risk research, flood risks are discussed as the result of social constructions and decisions. Dominant risk concepts and precautionary measures are questioned and new conceptual and methodological approaches are developed on the basis of extensive empirical field work in Chiapas. This study offers insight into "living with floods", its socio-cultural characteristics as well as its political relevance.
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Table of contents
- TABLE OF CONTENT
- TABLE OF FIGURES
- TABLE OF TABLES
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- SUMMARY
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PROLOGUE
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 TOPIC AND RESEARCH QUESTION
- 3 INTRODUCING THE CASE STUDY REGION – SELECTED SOCIO-SPATIAL DYNAMICS IN A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
- 4 SOCIAL PRACTICES, RISK AND SPACE – THEORETICAL BASIS
- 5 METHODOLOGY
- 6 SOCIAL PRACTICES OF LIVING WITH FLOODS PERFORMED BY VILLAGE INHABITANTS
- 7 BODILY-MATERIAL NOTIONS IN FLOOD RELATED PRACTICES OF VILLAGE INHABITANTS
- 8 SOCIAL PRACTICES OF FLOOD MANAGEMENT PERFORMED BY EXTERNAL ACTORS
- 9 RISKSCAPES – SOCIAL PRACTICE PATTERNS OF FLOOD MANAGEMENT IN THE SOUTH OF MEXICO
- 10 CONCLUSION – SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH IN A CONTEXT OF RISK AND DEVELOPMENT
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- SOFTWARE
- OTHER SOURCES AND SUPPORT
- ANNEX