Hazardous future : disaster, representation and the assessment of risk /

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The book seeks to understand how societies and cultures deal with disaster and the rhetorical means they resort to in order to represent it. Since culture, the media and the arts deal with the perception and the processing of catastrophe, what kind of social knowledge does this process produce and h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gil, Isabel Capeloa (Editor ), Wulf, Christoph (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
Temas:
Disasters.
Risk assessment.
Emergency management.
Disasters
Risk Assessment
Catastrophes.
Évaluation du risque.
disasters.
risk assessment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Risikomanagement.
Katastrophe.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : hazardous future: images and perceptions of disaster and the assessment of risk
  • Disaster (and) culture
  • The productivity of catastrophes in evolution and the challenge of manmade catastrophes
  • Catastrophe culture
  • Tragedy, the neglected origin of catastrophe theory
  • (e)spectating disaster : a cultural condition
  • Catastrophes, the imaginary and citizenship : the production of the other and the singularity of experience
  • The importance of social capital facing the unexpected (from natural hazards
  • to social disasters) : a style of thought
  • Big stories and small stories after a traumatic natural disaster from a psychotherapeutic point of view
  • In search of the lost oikos : Japan after the earthquake of 11 March 2011
  • A casuistry of disaster
  • The specter of Chernobyl : an ontology of risk
  • Living in a landscape of risk in java/indonesia
  • Performance and the deferral of the catastrophe narrative : Naoko Tanaka's
  • Performance-installation die scheinwerferin
  • The subjectification of disaster in video art : incidence of catastrophe by Gary Hill
  • Identifying a genre : televized tragedy
  • Screens of fire : surviving the end of the world
  • Zombies and citizens : the ontopolitics of disaster in Francis Lawrence's I am legend
  • How do we measure disaster? : how do we ensure security? : the 2011 Lorca earthquake in the media
  • Hurricane Katrina : contesting singularity in treme
  • Flooded with memories : risk cultures, the big flood of 1953 and the visual
  • Resonance of World War two
  • Authors
  • Index of names.

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