Contextualizing Disaster / / ed. by Gregory V. Button, Mark Schuller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Bankoff, Greg,; Barrios, Roberto E.,; Borrinaga, George Emmanuel,; Button, Gregory V.,; Checker, Melissa,; Eldridge, Erin R.,; Lazrus, Heather,; Love, Bridget,; Marino, Elizabeth,; Parson, Nia,; Schuller, Mark,
• HerausgeberIn: Button, Gregory V.,; Schuller, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Catastrophes in Context ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1 A Poison Runs Through It: The Elk River Chemical Spill in West Virginia --; CHAPTER 2 Whethering the Storm: The Twin Natures of Typhoons Haiyan and Yolanda --; CHAPTER 3 “The Tremors Felt Round the World” Haiti’s Earthquake as Global Imagined Community --; CHAPTER 4 Contested Narratives: Challenging the State’s Neoliberal Authority in the Aftermath of the Chilean Earthquake --; CHAPTER 5 Decentralizing Disasters: Civic Engagement and Stalled Reconstruction after Japan’s 3/11 --; CHAPTER 6 Expert Knowledge and the Ethnography of Disaster Reconstruction --; CHAPTER 7 “We Are Always Getting Ready” How Diverse Notions of Time and Flexibility Build Adaptive Capacity in Alaska and Tuvalu --; CHAPTER 8 Tempests, Green Teas, and the Right to Relocate: The Political Ecology of Superstorm Sandy --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785332814; 9783110998221
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785332814
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Gregory V. Button, Mark Schuller.

Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slow-burning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a mistake to think of disasters as isolated or discrete occurrences. Rather, building on insights developed by political ecologists, this book makes a compelling argument for understanding disasters as transnational and global phenomena.