Jc Gaillard: The Invention of Disaster

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Beschreibung

This theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over the world. It takes a postcolonial approach to unpack why scholars claim that disasters are social constructs while offering little but theories, concepts and methods supposed to be universal in understanding the unique and diverse experiences of millions of people across very different cultures. It further challenges forms of governments inherited from the Enlightenment that have been rolled out as standard and ultimate solutions to reduce the risk of disaster. Ultimately, the book encourages the emergence of a more diverse set of world views/senses and ways of knowing for both studying disasters and informing policy and practice of disaster risk reduction. Such pluralism is essential to better reflect local realities of what disasters actually are around the world.

This book is an essential read for scholars and postgraduate students interested in disaster studies as well as policy-makers and practitioners of disaster risk reduction.

Über den Autor

JC Gaillard is Professor of Geography at Waipapa Taumata Rau (The University of Auckland), Aotearoa (New Zealand).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. What is a Disaster?

2. A Genealogy of Disaster Studies

3. Unfulfilled Promise of a Paradigm Shift

4. The Quest for Pantometry

5. The Governmentality of Disaster

6. Climate Change and the Ultimate Challenge of Modernity

7. Exclusive Inclusion and the Imperative of Participation

8. Gender in Disaster beyond Men and Women

9. Power and Resistance in Disaster Risk Reduction

10. The Invention of Disaster

Postscript: Where to From Here?

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Geografie
Genre:	Geowissenschaften
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781032162720
ISBN-10:	1032162724
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Gaillard, Jc
Hersteller:	Routledge
Maße:	234 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Jc Gaillard
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.01.2023
Gewicht:	0,418 kg

Artikel-ID: 126644420