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Critical Disaster Studies
Taschenbuch von Jacob A C Remes (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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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 acute emergencies.

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 acute emergencies.

Über den Autor
Andy Horowitz is Assistant Professor of History and the Paul and Debra Gibbons Professor in the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University. Jacob A. C. Remes is Clinical Associate Professor of History at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Introducing Critical Disaster Studies

Andy Horowitz and Jacob A. C. Remes

Part I. Knowing Disaster

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 Noncrisis of the Late 1990s

Dara Z. Strolovitch

Part II. Governing Disaster

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

Part III. Imagining Disaster

Chapter 8. Mediating Disaster, or A History of the Novel

Susan Scott Parrish

Chapter 9. The T¿kai Earthquake and Changing Lexicons of Risk

Kerry Smith

Chapter 10. Translating Disaster Knowledge from Japan to Chile: A Proposal for Incompleteness

Chika Watanabe

Afterword. "Acts of Men": Disasters Neglected, Preventable, and Moral

Kenneth Hewitt

Notes

Bibliography

Index

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780812224825
ISBN-10: 0812224825
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Remes, Jacob A C
Horowitz, Andy
Hersteller: University of Pennsylvania Press
Maße: 226 x 150 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Jacob A C Remes (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.08.2021
Gewicht: 0,386 kg
Artikel-ID: 119613429
Über den Autor
Andy Horowitz is Assistant Professor of History and the Paul and Debra Gibbons Professor in the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University. Jacob A. C. Remes is Clinical Associate Professor of History at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Introducing Critical Disaster Studies

Andy Horowitz and Jacob A. C. Remes

Part I. Knowing Disaster

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 Noncrisis of the Late 1990s

Dara Z. Strolovitch

Part II. Governing Disaster

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

Part III. Imagining Disaster

Chapter 8. Mediating Disaster, or A History of the Novel

Susan Scott Parrish

Chapter 9. The T¿kai Earthquake and Changing Lexicons of Risk

Kerry Smith

Chapter 10. Translating Disaster Knowledge from Japan to Chile: A Proposal for Incompleteness

Chika Watanabe

Afterword. "Acts of Men": Disasters Neglected, Preventable, and Moral

Kenneth Hewitt

Notes

Bibliography

Index

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780812224825
ISBN-10: 0812224825
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Remes, Jacob A C
Horowitz, Andy
Hersteller: University of Pennsylvania Press
Maße: 226 x 150 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Jacob A C Remes (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.08.2021
Gewicht: 0,386 kg
Artikel-ID: 119613429
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