Contextualizing Disaster /

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

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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 arg...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (214 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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