Hazardous future : : disaster, representation and the assessment of risk / / edited by Isabel Capeloa Gil and Christoph Wulf.

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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2015]
2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (301 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.