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Critical Disaster Studies
Scholars from seven disciplines, whose work spans five continents, announce a new way of seeing disasters that is essential for making sense of our time: critical disaster studies. Critical Disaster Studies strips away the technocratic veneer that too often makes structural problems appear to be acu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introducing critical disaster studies / Andy Horowitz and Jacob A.C. Remes
- Chapter 1. The Voyage of the Paragon : disaster as method / Scott Gabriel Knowles and Zachary Loeb
- Chapter 2. Acts of God, man, and system : knowledge, technology, and the construction of disaster / Ryan Hagen
- Chapter 3. When does a crisis begin? Race, gender, and the subprime noncrisisof the late 1990s / Dara Z. Strolovitch
- Chapter 4. Concrete kleptocracy and Haiti's culture of building : toward a new temporality of disaster / Claire Antone Payton
- Chapter 5. Risk technopolitics in Freetown slums : why community-based disaster management is no silver bullet / Aaron Clark-Ginsberg
- Chapter 6. Spaces at risk : urban politics and slum relocation in Chennai, India / Pranathi Diwakar
- Chapter 7. Plan B : the collapse of public-private risk sharing in the US National Flood Insurance Program / Rebecca Elliott
- Chapter 8. Mediating disaster, or A history of the novel / Susan Scott Parrish
- Chapter 9. The Tōkai Earthquake and changing lexicons of risk / Kerry Smith
- Chapter 10. Translating disaster knowledge from Japan to Chile : a proposal for incompleteness / Chika Watanabe
- "Acts of Men" : disasters neglected, preventable, and moral / Kenneth Hewitt.